Events
ONGOING EVENTS
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Runder
Tisch (German
Conversation Group) 19.00
- 20.30 Uhr (7:00 - 8:30 p.m.)
Every first Monday, Mission
Creek Cafe, 968 Valencia Street,
San Francisco
For more information, email Jutta or
call (510) 430-2673.
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Klönschnack (German
Conversation
Group) 16.30
- 18.00 Uhr (4:30
- 6:00 p.m.)
Every
third Saturday, Au
Coquelet Cafe, 2000
University Avenue, Ecke Milvia, Berkeley.
For more information, email Marion or call (510) 430-2673.
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Filmnacht (Movie Night) 19.30
Uhr (7:30 p.m.) Click here for the 2008 schedule.
Monthly screening of a German, or German-related,
film.
We are showing popular or little-known film gems
(in German with English subtitles), followed by
a moderated discussion. Every fourth Saturday at
7:30 p.m. at the Gerlind Institute for Cultural
Studies in Oakland.
For
more information, email Marion or
call (510) 430-2673.
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PAST EVENTS
Holocaust
Memorial Lecture : Hiding in the Open: A Holocaust Memoir
Sabina S. Zimering, M.D., Author, Speaker
San
Francisco State University
Click here for
an article by Kari Christensen, Staff Writer of the Xpress,
the student newspaper at San Francisco State University
Hiding
in the Open: A Holocaust Memoir by
Sabina S. Zimering, M.D., was published by North Star
Press of St. Cloud Inc. The illustrated paperback ($14.95,
ISBN: 0-8739-171-1) is available at bookstores and
at the lecture.
Sabina
Zimering grew up in Poland and was 16 when World War II broke
out. After three years of arrests, hunger and typhus in the
Jewish ghetto, the deportation to the gas chambers of Treblinka
began. In the middle of the night she and her sister Helka
escaped. Danka and Mala, their childhood friends, gave them
false IDs. Despite many close calls posing as Catholic Poles,
they worked in a hotel for high-ranking officers in Nazi
Germany until the American Army liberated them April 27,
1945.
When
the war ended, Zimering studied medicine in Munich. After
graduating she immigrated to Minneapolis where she married,
raised a family and practiced medicine for 42 years. Now
Sabina tells her riveting story to schools, colleges, churches,
synagogues and various groups both locally and nationally.
Newspapers, radio and TV stations have interviewed her. Minnesota
Medicine published two of her essays and the Society for
the Blind presented her memoir as a Radio Talking Book.
Dr.
Zimering participates in the annual Holocaust program at
the Jungle Theater in Minneapolis. In 2004, the History
Theatre in St. Paul presented, with great success, Hiding
in the Open, on their stage.
This
program was supported by the
Ingrid Tauber Philanthropic Fund of the Jewish Community Federation
of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin & Sonoma Counties; Department
of History and Jewish
Studies Program, San Francisco State University; San
Francisco Hillel; Gerlind
Institute for Cultural Studies; DRAGA
design
“Over
the years, I have seen, heard and read a lot about the
Holocaust. Sabina Zimering’s
Hiding
in the Open is a very powerful and moving piece of work.
I couldn’t put it down.”
~
Joel Coen, Director of the movie Fargo
Ika
Hügel-Marshall, author of Daheim
Unterwegs (Invisible
Woman: Growing Up Black in Germany)
Berkeley, February
16th, 2007
Ika Hügel-Marshall
was born in Germany in 1947 to a white German mother and an Afro-American
father. Initially, she grew up with her mother, but from her sixth
to her fifteenth year of life she was raised—as many Afro-German
children of her generation - in a children's home. After finishing
school, she studied social pedagogics and then worked with children
and young people. Later she became the media spokeswoman for the
Orlanda Women's Press. Only at the age of 39 she met other Afro-Germans
and was involved in setting up the "Initiative of Black Germans"
(ISD).
In 1993, she found her father in Chicago and met him and his
family—a most profound experience.
Ika Hügel-Marshall
will read from her autobiographical book
Invisible Woman. Growing
Up Black in Germany and engage in a discussion on her life and
the situation of Black Germans. (www.ika-huegel-marshall.de)
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