Growing a strong community: Das BELLA DONNA HAUS
Dr. Bachmann received his M.D. from the J. Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, and his doctorate in virology from Harvard School of Public Health in Boston. He is currently working as a research scientist at Stanford University on the molecular genetics of tumor immune escape and transplant tolerance.
Chances are that you and your loved ones have been touched by cancer during the last five decades that the "War on Cancer" has been going on for. Still, mortality rates have changed only insignificantly for the majority of cancer types while incidence rates for a number of cancers have continued to grow. In fact, cancer is, and has been for a long time, the second most common cause of death in the developed world after cardiovascular disease. One in two men and one in three women born after 1985 will suffer cancer in their lifetime, from which one in six will die.
From Germany and Back Again in Three Generations-A Family Reclaims Its Heritage
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Spanning three generations of German-Jewish-Americans, the story of Dr. Werner Loewenstein’s impact on the lives of his descendants is not just another Holocaust story of victimization and redemption. Although Dr. Loewenstein experienced the worst that humanity could offer, his
legacy is transformed by Miriam’s story of healing and forgiveness and by Leah's experience living in modern Germany which provides hope for future generations.
Oral History with Leticia Andreas-Wolf
Sunday, January 15, 2012
“My birthplace is Dresden, Germany, year 1965. Despite growing up for my first 10 years in the old East behind the Iron Curtain, my childhood was rather happy and carefree. A dramatic event in 1974 changed the life of my parents and me forever. In 1975, we were forced to leave East Germany for West Germany, and settled in Braunschweig, and later in Wunstorf, near Hannover.
Legacies and Heresies with blessings
Sunday, November 11, 2012
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.
Oral History and Poetry Reading
October 23, 2011
Angelika Quirk was born during World War II, in Hamburg, Germany. Her childhood was spent in this metropolis, a city flattened by war and ravaged by hunger. German culture, along with the Angst of post-war experiences and working through the trauma of the Holocaust, impacts her poetry.
Soul of an Immigrant
Dr. Berta Maria Hines is a trained physician in Family Medicine, which she practiced for many years. As she began her spiritual path, her clinical practice in medicine began to change, leading her to the field of Complementary Medicine. This includes Healing Energy for people and animals, Life Intuitive sessions and Blessings for Home and Business.
My Aunt Edith Stein: Oral History Event with Susanne Batzdorff
May 15, 2011
Edith Stein, Carmel of Echt, Netherlands, ca. 1940. Edith Stein was Susanne Batzdorff’s aunt, her mother’s younger sister. Edith was a renowned philosopher, lectured all over Europe, and wrote many books and articles. She converted to Catholicism and in 1933 entered a Carmelite convent in Cologne, Germany. Edith was transferred to Holland after Kristallnacht because the Cologne Carmel felt that both the community and Edith would be safer if she left Germany. When the Germans conquered Holland, both she and her older sister Rosa, who had joined her in Holland, were deported to Auschwitz and gassed. Edith Stein was canonized by Pope John Paul II in Oct. 1998 and later named a Patroness of Europe. Her many literary works are now being published in 26 volumes and many of them have appeared in English translation. Susanne will tell you more of the dramatic story of her Aunt Edith and her impact on her Jewish family. She will also read from her book, Aunt Edith: The Jewish Heritage of a Catholic Saint.
Holocaust Survivors Reclaim Their Mother Tongue and Cultural Heritage
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Spend a special afternoon with three extraordinary people who escaped the Holocaust via the Kindertransport to England. Rita Goldhor from Vienna, Leo Mark Horovitz from Frankfurt a.M., and Ralph Samuel from Dresden will speak about their lives and complex relationships to their first language, German, and its cultural environment. All three now reside in the San Francisco East Bay area. They will dialogue with one another and the audience.
Evening with Madhuri Anji
I am the daughter of a German mother and an Indian father, and was born in Dresden, in what was then East Germany. My birthday, October 7th, was also the Tag der Republik, and according to my mother I was born just as a marching band went by the hospital.
My mother had petitioned to emigrate out of East Germany soon after the wall was built since my father lived and worked in the West. It took about 11 years before we were allowed to do so which is when we immigrated to India. I was one year old. I was fortunate that my parents spoke German at home, which allowed me to grow up bi-lingual. Although I learned and heard the local language (Kannada) around me all the time, I cannot speak it.
An Evening with Bernhard Ruchti
July 24, 2010
“I was born in Berkeley in 1974. My parents are both Swiss and my father had a research assistant position at UC Berkeley. When I was about three years old, we returned to Switzerland, where I grew up.
At the age of 15 or 16, I joined a spiritual group that was engaged in anthroposophical ideas. A pretty complex story…. About the same time, I began to discover that I am gay. But, under the influence of spiritual ideologies, I was not able to accept that fact. I tried to live as a straight man, and, at the age of 28 I even married.”