The Konar Family Foundation and the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Project are sponsoring a film as part of the Rochester Jewish Film Festival (RJFF) https://www.rjff.org/berlin.html. Members of the MCC family are invited to attend:
BERLIN ’36
Preceded by TOYLAND
Thursday, July 29
6:15 pm
The Little Theatre (East Avenue)
Tickets: $11
According to RJFF organizers, 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, in 2001. Gretel Bergmann came to campus for the event..
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