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Jul 28, 2021

Memory, Empathy and Image:
The Art of Luise Schröder (Germany)
and Kitra Cahana (Canada)

2022-02-18T05:26:38-05:00July 28th, 2021|, , |Comments Off on Memory, Empathy and Image:
The Art of Luise Schröder (Germany)
and Kitra Cahana (Canada)

Discussion with artists Luise Schröder (Germany) and Kitra Cahana (Canada) Moderated by Ori Z Soltes, PHD Teaching Professor at Georgetown University in Washington DC Introduced by Rachel Stern Director and CEO of the Fritz Ascher Society in New York NY This program explores the work of two young artists -- Kitra Cahana, from Canada; and Luise Schroeder, from Germany -- whose photography, documentary filmmaking and other work have been informed by an acute awareness of the myriad complications that have beset diverse individuals and groups within the complexities of the twentieth- and twenty-first-century world. Their inspirational sources range from the Holocaust to the Black Lives Matter movement as, in similar and yet very different ways, they [...]

Dec 8, 2020

Helene Klodawsky, Film Director (Canada) and
Sabine Rollberg, Expert of Documentary Film (Germany) discuss
“Undying Love.” Stories of Romance, Marriage and Rebirth in Displaced Persons’ Camps

2022-02-18T05:51:58-05:00December 8th, 2020|, |Comments Off on Helene Klodawsky, Film Director (Canada) and
Sabine Rollberg, Expert of Documentary Film (Germany) discuss
“Undying Love.” Stories of Romance, Marriage and Rebirth in Displaced Persons’ Camps

This exclusive program features two award winners: Helene Klodawsky, Independent Filmmaker, Writer and Director of "Undying Love", Montreal (Canada) in conversation with Sabine Rollberg, Professor of Artistic Television Formats, Film and Television, Freiburg (Germany) Moderated by Rachel Stern, Director of the Fritz Ascher Society, New York (USA) Undying Love tells the poignant, enduring, and miraculous love stories of the survivors of World War II. Against the brutalized landscape of post-war Europe, this film focuses on how survivors struggled to reconstruct personal identities and forge intimate relationships. Using searing testimonies, poetic dramatizations, archives and images of romantic love from the pre- and post-Holocaust era, Undying Love is a textured retelling of several extraordinary love stories which emerged “out [...]

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