Danuta Zamojska Hutchins of Storm Lake, Iowa will visit Simpson College on Wednesday, April 6 to deliver a lecture titled "The Butterfly Effect" at 7 p.m. in Lekberg Hall.

Hutchins, a retired professor of Slavic and Germanic languages, was born during the Second World War in Warsaw, Poland, where she lived until 1962. She experienced the ravages of Nazi occupation, their reprisals for the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 and Poland’s fall to communism after its liberation by the Soviet Army.

She recollected the memories of her childhood experiences only after witnessing the news coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the U. S. She was moved to publish these recollections in a book titled Torn-Out Memories in 2003 as a humanitarian response to the American-led invasion of Iraq.

Hutchins will speak on the connections between her personal memories of war and her view of international events. Copies of her book will be available at the lecture.

The lecture is free and open to the public.