Taking the Stand: We Have More to Say
100 Questions – 900 Answers
4:00-6:00p.m.
October 6, 2015
Konover Auditorium
Thomas J. Dodd Research Center
As part of a major speaking tour across the United States, author and award-winning filmmaker Bernhard Rammerstorfer presents his latest Book and DVD entitled “TAKING THE STAND”. Accompanied by by Austrian Victim of Nazi Tyranny Mrs. Hermine Liska, he is providing one of the last opportunities to meet, in person, a Nazi Era eyewitness.
“TAKING THE STAND: We Have More to Say” condenses insights and experiences of nine victims of the Nazi movement and their messages to the younger generation. They are from five different countries and were persecuted for reasons of ethnicity, politics/ideology, or religion. All in all, they were interned in fifty-four camps or institutions, they were imprisoned for 528 months (44 years), and all together they can provide life experience totaling 806 years 7 months! The variety of the survivor’s experiences allows, not merely a small sliver of the Holocaust to be displayed, but rather the whole spectrum of the Holocaust is brought into view. For five years, Rammerstorfer collected questions directed to Holocaust survivors that were posed by schoolchildren and students all over the world. The catalog of questions, unique in the world, consists of 100 questions from 61 schools and universities in 30 countries on 6 continents.
For more information visit: http://thedoddcenter.uconn.edu/2015/08/20/10-6-15-holocaust-education-event/
For more information, contact: Glenn Mitoma at glenn.mitoma@uconn.edu