Featured Upcoming Events
Film Screening: "Mephisto"
Tuesday, January 24 @ 7:00 PM
Directed by Istvan Szabo. Starring Klaus Maria Brandauer
Boulder JCC
3800 Kalmia Avenue
Boulder, CO 80301
$10.00 at the door
Holocaust Awareness Week kicks off with this Oscar-winning political drama based on Klaus Mann’s 1936 novel of the same name. In early 1930s Germany, ambitious actor Hendrik Hofgen cares little for politics and lives only for his art. But when the Nazis rise to power, Hofgen seizes the opportunity to perform propaganda plays for the Reich, gaining popularity and fame. But can he survive in a world where the ideology of evil is the ultimate drama? Holocaust Awareness Week continues Jan. 25-27 at CU.
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“The House on August Street” with post-film discussion by Diane Wolf, professor of Sociology and director of Jewish Studies at UC Davis
Wednesday, January 25 @ 7:00 PM
Directed by Ayelet Bargur
University of Colorado at Boulder
Atlas Building Room 100
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From award-winning director Aylet Bargur, “The House on August Street” tells the remarkable, unknown story of Beate Berger, a German Jew who single-handedly and with great resolve and vision rescued over 100 children during the Holocaust, smuggling them from Berlin to Palestine in the 1930s. Berger, founder of the House of Love Children’s Home (Beith Ahawah Kinderheim), Berlin’s first home for poor Jewish children, was quick to recognize the Nazi threat and resolved to protect the 120 children under her care. Raising the funds and...
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Keynote lecture “Hidden Children of the Holocaust” with Diane Wolf, author and professor of Sociology and director of Jewish Studies at UC Davis
Thursday, January 26 @ 7:00 PM
University Memorial Center Room 235
Free and open to the public
Anne Frank largely shaped the image of the Jewish child hiding from the Nazis, yet her experience was not the norm. Drawing on interviews with seventy Jewish men and women who, as children, were placed in non-Jewish families during the Nazi occupation of Holland, Wolf analyzes the experiences of these Holocaust survivors which were diametrically opposed to the those who suffered in concentration camps. Although the war years were...”
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Reading of the names and survivor testimonies
Friday, January 27 @ 10:30 AM and 1:30 PM
University of Colorado at Boulder
University Memorial Center Room 235
Free and open to the public
CU’s Holocaust Awareness Week concludes with the reading of Holocaust victims' names called the Litany of the Martyrs which will begin at 10 a.m. in the UMC. Testimonies from local Holocaust survivors will be at 10:30AM and 1:30PM.
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