<p>“Night Before Dawn: Grete’s Story” is Ilse Shea’s book about her experience growing up in post-World War II Communist Germany and is based on her mother’s life.</p>
November 9, 2014
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November 9, 2014 8 p.m.
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A young Ilse Shea thought a lit-up Christmas tree was falling softly from the sky, but her mother knew otherwise in war-torn East Germany.