If the United States hadn’t welcomed her father as a penniless refugee from war-torn Europe when he was 27, Jeannette Sorrell wouldn’t be here. And neither would the Apollo’s Fire Baroque Orchestra.
At Akron Roundtable Thursday, Sorrell, who founded Apollo’s Fire 33 years ago in Cleveland, spoke about the determination and bravery of immigrants, through the lens of her own father’s survival story during World War II. Sorrell and her family never knew about her father Gregory Sorrell’s Jewish identity or that he was a Holocaust survivor until he was 87.
That’s because he kept it a secret…