Author: Anne Whiteside, The Moon in Splinters

Wednesday, 2/18/2026
5:00 - 6:30
Bernal Heights Meeting Room
Bernal Heights

500 Cortland Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94110
United States

415-355-2810

Author Anne Whiteside discusses her new book, The Moon in Splinters.

The story of Maurice Pertschuk, the author’s uncle, murdered by the Nazis at age 23, was shrouded in family silence for decades. After her mother’s death, she sets out to learn why, tracking down survivors, archival records and testimonies. The result: a gripping account of clandestine life: idealism, romance, betrayal and the heroism of the ordinary men and women in his circuit, who risked their lives to restore French democracy.

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Anne Whiteside first studied Franco-British relations listening in on conversations between her French mother and British father. After many years teaching English and a career in educational linguistics that included a Fulbright fellowship and teaching at U.C. Berkeley and San Francisco State University, she spent 13 years researching her uncle's life and death in the French Resistance. The Moon in Splinters is her first book of literary non-fiction.

Connect: Anne Whiteside - Website

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