Community Roundtable: Engaging in a Palestinian / Jewish Dialogue
An evening of shared personal stories with
Yvonne Addassi, Palestinian-American
Mark Botto, Palestinian-American
Rachel Rokach, Jewish-Israeli
Dr. Miriam Zimmerman, Jewish-American-German
Attendees were invited to participate in the program.
Lois Silverstein, Ph.D. – When Crying Stops
Created from a combination of survivor testimony, research, and imagination, When Crying Stops tells a story about the Glattshteyns of Chernowitz, Romania, Meier, Golde, and Chane, how they were drawn into the war in the 1920s and 1930s and survived until today. It is rich with first-hand experience, historical perspectives, reflections on resilience and human endurance, and a thoughtful look at war, oppression, and loss.
Mary Louise Wells presents her novel – Good Town
It’s a family story of complicity — of how an educated, Christian man becomes a cog in the Nazi machine, which ravages his family and homeland while his wife and children bear the brunt of his choices.
Drs. Irmtrud Wojak & Ilona Ziok: Keeping Fritz Bauer’s Legacy Alive
Saturday September 23, 2023
Dr. Irmtrud Wojak is the managing director of the Buxus Stiftung GmbH and initiator of the Fritz Bauer Forum in Bochum. She is a historian, author, and curator. Her research focuses on contemporary legal history, exile, and cultures of remembrance.
Filmmaker Ilona Ziok was born in Poland and lived in England, Germany, and France. She studied directing film & theater, history of art- and media, political science & Slavic languages in Frankfurt, New York, and Moscow.
Ist das Slam oder kann das weg?
March 26, 2023, 7:00 p.m.
In 1980s Berlin, the spoken-word genre began to enjoy great popularity among intersectional performers. However, in a sudden twist of fate, spoken word quickly lost traction to poetry slams, which reflected new ex-pat, post-Wende, and migrant audiences craving an egalitarian form of expression. Even now, ‘Slam’ is seen as a democratic public arena that speaks truth to power. But is this the case?
Ethel Liebman Wiesinger – An Adventurous 20th Century Life
January 28, 2023, 11:00 a.m.
Born into a Jewish family in German-speaking Czernowitz, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Ethel Liebman Wiesinger (1890-1984) was an extraordinary woman. Margot coedited her mother’s personal account and introduced her life in the book, From Czernowitz to China and Beyond (2020).
A Celebration of Life
In collaboration with Dr. Dagmar Schultz, Ika’s life partner, JB and I created videos about Ika’s life. Ika was an activist, co-author of several books, author of Daheim unterwegs: Ein deutsches Leben (Invisible Woman: Growing Up Black in Germany), artist, social counselor, anti-racism consultant, martial artist, and friend…
“Mein Schlüssel hat das Haus verloren. My Key has lost its House”
elana levy translated and published a selection of Rose Ausländer’s poetry in 2018. She reads from Ausländer’s work in the original German, and then her English translations.
How I got to the Altenheim: An American/ German Journey
elana levy translated and published a selection of Rose Ausländer’s poetry in 2018. She reads from Ausländer’s work in the original German, and then her English translations.
How Growing Up as a Child of Holocaust Survivors Has Shaped My Life
“As I look over my life I have identified certain struggles linked to my upbringing:
Raised by two refugees from the Nazis—my mother from Berlin, and my father from Metz. They had both been politically active before they were forced to leave, my father was a Social Democrat, and my mother was in the communist movement.
I struggled with how to be an American culturally and find a place in the work world that felt safe for me. ”