Cry of the Giraffe: Lecture by Judie Oron March 20, 2012

Cry of the Giraffe (Annick Press) is an award-winning book based on the story of an Ethiopian Jewish teenager named Wuditu who, together with her younger sister, Lewteh, was separated from her family in a violent incident in a refugee camp in Sudan. While the two young girls were being forcibly returned to Ethiopia, the rest of their family members were rescued from the refugee camp and flown via a secret airlift to Israel.

Circumstances forced the two girls to separate. Lewteh survived and was reunited with her family. Alone at 13 years old, Wuditu struggled to find work and a way back to her family but was unwittingly trapped into slavery. The book tells of her fight to stay alive in war torn Ethiopia, until a stranger unexpectedly came to free her.

Judie Oron is a Canadian/Israeli journalist. She was a feature writer at ‘The Jerusalem Post,’ including a four year stint as a weekly columnist. Later, she directed the newspaper’s charitable Funds, including ‘Operation Homecoming,’ for Ethiopian Jewish immigrants arriving in Israel via a secret airlift code named Operation Moses.

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