Konar Family Foundation and Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Project Partner to Host "Berlin '36"

Konar Family Foundation and Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Project Partner to Host "Berlin '36"

The Konar Family Foundation and the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Project are sponsoring a film as part of the Rochester Jewish Film Festival http://www.rjff.org/berlin.html .

BERLIN ’36

Preceded by TOYLAND

Thursday, July 29

6:15 pm

The Little Theatre (East Avenue)

Tickets: $11

BERLIN '36 is based on the true story of the Jewish high jumper Gretel Bergmann. She was considered to be a top contender for the gold medal at the Summer Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936. Under German filmmaker Kasper Heidelbach's direction, Karoline Herfurth (Gretel) gives a sensitive performance as the young and often bewildered Jewish-German woman who is pulled this way and that in the political tug-of-war that was German sports in the 1930s. The film first screened in the US at the Palm Springs International Film Festival last year and has been a favorite on the Jewish film festival circuit.

MCC hosted exhibit, The Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936, at its Brighton Campus in 2001. Gretel Bergmann came to campus for the event..

Charlie Clarke
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