EVENTS

CURRENT

• Klönschnack (German Conversation Group) 16.30 - 18.00 Uhr (4:30 - 6:00 p.m.)
  Every third Saturday of the month, Au Coquelet Cafe, 2000 University Avenue, Ecke Milvia, Berkeley,
  For more information, contact Marion at 510-430-2673

• Filmnacht (Movie Night) 19.30 Uhr (7:30 p.m.) Click here for the 2008 schedule.
  Every fourth Saturday of the month, Gerlind Institute for Cultural Studies, Oakland.
  For more information, email Marion or call (510) 430-2673.

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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