TAKING THE STAND USA Tour in October 2015
Unique Worldwide Project Makes Nazi Era Eyewitnesses Approachable One Last Time
U.S. Lecture Tour of Bernhard Rammerstorfer and Victims of Nazi Tyranny Hermine Liska and Renée Firestone at Notable Universities Like Harvard and Stanford
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: We Have More to Say. He is providing one of the last opportunities to meet, in person, Nazi Era eyewitnesses.
Austrian Victim of Nazi Tyranny Hermine Liska will be accompanying him on the complete tour. Auschwitz survivor and Holocaust Teacher Renée Firestone, from Los Angeles, will be additionally taking part in the lectures in California.
Renée Firestone’s life story was part of Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-winning documentary The Last Days. In Taking the Stand Mrs. Firestone remembers:
“I looked over and I saw Mengele . . .”
“If I started blaming God, then I was going to excuse men, and this was really done by men, by humanity.”
“You don’t see the chimney and the fire and the smoke? There go your parents! And when you go through the chimneys,” she said, “you will be reunited.”
Likewise, Hermine Liska, a target of the Nazi re-education program as a child of Bible Students (Jehovah’s Witnesses) who rejected Nazi ideology, recounts:
“I did not use the greeting “Heil Hitler!” and did not join the Hitler Youth.”
“You must not plot revenge, because that harms you even more. Vengeful thoughts are the worst you can have; they do you more harm.”
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Speaking Engagements of the U.S. Lecture Tour 2015:
October 6, 2015, 4:00 PM
University of Connecticut, Connecticut
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October 7, 2015, 7:00 PM
Boston College, Massachusetts
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October 8, 2015, 4:00 PM
Harvard University, Massachusetts
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October 13, 2015, 5:30 PM
Stanford University, California
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October 16, 2015, 11:00 AM
Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Library, California
Event for Middle and High Schools
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October 16, 2015, 6:00 PM
Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Library, California
Screening of award-winning documentary LADDER in the LIONS’ DEN
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October 18, 2015, 1:30 PM
Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, California
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October 20, 2015, 12:00 PM
Pepperdine University, California
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