History Lecture March 30

Anneliese Heider Tisdale will discuss her life as a young girl in Nazi Germany during a talk at Wartburg Sunday, March 30. Tisdale, a retired Cedar Rapids teacher — will give the James W. Lynes Jr. Memorial Lecture in History, hosted by the Phi Alpha Theta history honor society, at 1 p.m. in Whitehouse Business Center 214. Her memoir,Christmas Trees Lit the Sky, recounts her fears as a compulsory member of Hitler’s Youth Girls League as a preteen and life in Munich during the war. The title recalls red and green flares used to illuminate the sky for Allied bombers, reminiscent of Christmas tree lights.