“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
Free and open to the public, RSVP required, email Nicholas.Underwood@colorado.edu or call 303.492.7143
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 making all the clandestine arrangements, Berger brought groups of children into Palestine from Germany from 1934 to 1939. The Beit Ahava orphanage in Haifa remains open today.
Diane Wolf’s visit has been made possible by generous donors to CU’s Hillel, the Program in Jewish Studies and the Legacy Heritage Jewish Studies Project, directed by the Association for Jewish Studies (AJS). Support for the Legacy Heritage Jewish Studies Project is generously provided by Legacy Heritage Fund Limited.
Diane Wolf is professor of Sociology and director of Jewish Studies at the University of California, Davis. She has authored Beyond Anne Frank: Hidden Children and Postwar Families in Holland, From Auschwitz to Ithaca: The Transnational Journey of Jake Geldwert and Factory Daughters. She edited Feminist Dilemmas in Fieldwork and co-edited Sociology Confronts the Holocaust: Memories and Identities in Jewish Diasporas. Her current research focuses on American cultural memory of the Holocaust, children of Holocaust survivors, and comparing the religious practices of secular Jews in both Israel and the U.S.
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