Events

Historic LoDo: Local author and retired Colorado Court of Appeals Judge Peter Ney will discuss and sign his memoir Getting Here: From a Seat on a Train to a Seat on the Bench ($19.95). Two nights before his seventh birthday, Peter Ney and his family were awakened by the sound of yelling and of breaking glass as their home was vandalized. Kristallnacht was just the beginning of the Nazi violence against the Jews, and it shaped the rest of Peter’s life. Two months later, Peter was one of 10,000 German children granted safe refuge in England via the Kindertransport. His parents joined him in London just before the start of World War II, and as a family they immigrated to the United States. Spanning seventy years, Getting Here tells of Peter’s journey from Germany through his tenure as a judge on the Colorado Court of Appeals. The book not only describes his journey, but rejoices in the fulfilling of the American dream—from a seat on a refugee train to a seat on the appellate bench. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com