A new citation of “Hanna Kohner” appears in the  link (http://www.rp-online.de/gesellschaft/leute/Senta-Bergers-Leben-in-Rezepten_aid_900163.html).  Here is the presentation of a new cookbook by an Austrian actress who I like very much and who is very well known in Germany. Her name is Senta Berger. She says that chicken broth and Hollywood are equivalent for her since she has been served chicken broth with cilantro/coriander and sweet potatoes by Hanna Kohner. She says that she often was the guest of Hanna and Walter Kohner, her agent, when she was shooting a film with Kirk Douglas in Los Angeles. This must have been in 1966.

In her new cookbook, she presents meals and memories, honoring the women who taught her cooking and who accompanied and protected her during her life.

I believe that this a wonderful little story.

Thanks to Bettina for alerting me to this post.

The Spiegel article has been reprinted on www.shoa.de. The link is http://www.shoa.de/nachkriegsdeutschland/gedenkkulturen/2572-traumabewaeltigung-20.html.  The article is in printed in the German language.  By entering the link to the article into translate.google.com/, you can view the text in english.

The Hanna & Walter, A Love Story curriculum has now been published and is available through Voices Of The Generations.  Please see our web site for details, https://vogcharity.org/vog/the-hanna-walter-curriculum-project/

The article about Voices of the Generations that appeared recently in Der Spiegel has now been published in the largest on-line Jewish magazine in Germany.  haGalil.com presents Jewish news in the German language exclusively on the web.  The article may be found at http://www.hagalil.com/archiv/2010/06/02/kohner/

Thank you to Bettina Mikhail, a member of the Einestages community, for writing the article and seeing it through to publication.

Leon Weinstein was born in 1910 into a large, extended family of Hassidic Jews who had lived in Poland for many generations. He married his childhood sweetheart, Sima, in 1939, and they gave birth to a daughter, Natalie, in 1940, as their town of Radzmin was becoming a ghetto.

I was fortunate to celebrate with the 1939 Club, Leon’s 100th birthday on Sunday, May 16. Leon has an inspiring story of survival, yet suffered as many did with the loss of many family members.  The dangerous situation forced Natalie’s parents to leave their 18 month old child at a door step, hoping someone would care for her.  Sima found shelter, but eventually perished while Leon worked with the resistance, smuggling arms into the Warsaw Ghetto.  Miraculously, Leon survived the Warsaw Uprising.

After the war, Leon eventually found his daughter in a convent, and married Sophie Sikora, a survivor of Auschwitz.  The family moved to France, and eventually, the United States in 1952.

Leon was instrumental in the rescue of countless Jews and the repossession of 13 sefer Torahs, stolen from the synagogue during the War Years.

The loss of his entire family set Leon on a lifelong quest of restoring the religious and warm communal life into which he was born. Continuous membership in a synagogue, support for Israel, and The “1939” Club has helped to fulfill that quest.  Leon and Sophie have been members of the 1939 Club for over 50 years. Sophie filled many capcities and offices of the 1939 Club until she passed away in 2005.

It was an honor to meet Leon, learn of his story, and participate in a milestone celebration of his first 100 years.

– Julie.

Bill Tammeus, the former Faith columnist for The Kansas City Star, has a weblog titled ‘Faith Matters’, at http://billtammeus.typepad.com/ Bill has graciously mentioned VOG in his posting today, ‘Faith this and that: 4-28-10’. Bill notes the article that appeared in Der Spiegel, and also mentions his work to help preserve the stories and memories of the Holocaust.

Thank you Bill for your kind words, and for helping to keep the memories alive.

The article in Der Spiegel has sparked further coverage of VOG. Bettina Mikhail has kindly posted a short article to the site, Lernen aus der Geschichte (Learning from History).

Here is the english translation:

Hanna Bloch Kohner sacrificed her unborn child to survive in the Auschwitz death camp. Years later, she moved to Los Angeles California where she married Walter Kohner and tried to let her memory of the Holocaust pass.

Julie Kohner wants to present her program not only in the U.S. but also in Europe, and especially in Germany. In order to guide teachers Julie has developed a curriculum for her mother’s story. She also  wishes to go one step further with a plan to build a Web 2.0 platform where children and grandchildren of the victims of the Shoah can contribute videos of their own personal stories and experiences.Titled  “Echoes of the Past”, the forum will serve as an archive for school education and for future generations.

The German version is available at the following link: http://lernen-aus-der-geschichte.de/Teilnehmen-und-Vernetzen/Tipp/8170

An english translation of the article that appeared online April 16, 2010 at Der Spiegel is available here: https://vogcharity.org/vog/der-spiegel-article/

This is a great article.  We hope you find it interesting and informative, and will be inspired to help support our work.  Thank you.

Today, April 16, 2010, an article appeared in the German edition of der Spiegel on the story of Hanna Kohner and the work of Voices of the Generations.  Please see it here:

http://einestages.spiegel.de/static/topicalbumbackground/5723/

traumabewaeltigung_2_0.html

Thank you to Bettina Mikhail, a member of the einestages community, for writing the article and seeing it through to publication.

Please read or listen to this NPR news story, first aired on March 9, 2010.  Hard to imagine there are people in the world who believe there never was a Holocaust.  There is no excuse for state sponsored or individual ignorance.  Please pass this post on to all who care.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124466615&ps=cprs