TAKING THE STAND Documentary WINNER at “Long Island International Film Expo 2016” in New York
TAKING THE STAND Documentary received the “Alan Fortunoff Humanitarian Award” and received a nomination in the “Best Documentary” category at the New York film festival “Long Island International Film Expo 2016.”
This film festival is rated: “One of the Top 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World—MovieMaker Magazine” and “One of Top 10 Hottest Summer Festivals in the United States—AUDIENCE AWARDS”
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Director Bernhard Rammerstorfer with the film award on historical “Route 66.”
Bernhard Rammerstorfer on historical “Route 66” with “Best Short Documentary Film Award”at the “Laughlin International Film Festival 2016” in Nevada.
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Nevada Premiere of TAKING THE STAND Documentary
Nevada Premiere of TAKING THE STAND Documentary Short at “5th Annual Laughlin International Film Festival” on October 15, 2016.
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Premiere of TAKING THE STAND Documentary
Premiere of TAKING THE STAND Documentary Short at New York Film Festival “Long Island International Film Expo” on July 16, 2016
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Photos and information about “TAKING THE STAND USA Tour 2015”
Photos and information about “TAKING THE STAND USA Tour 2015” at Boston College, Connecticut, Harvard, Pepperdine, and Stanford universities, as well as at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and LAMOTH are available here: www.facebook.com/TakingTheStand.WeHaveMoreToSay
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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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Recommendation of the book and DVD Taking the Stand
Recommendation of the book “Taking the Stand: We Have More to Say”
The Department of Political Education at the Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture is pleased that, with the publication in 2012 of the book and DVD by Bernhard Rammerstorfer entitled “Taking the Stand: We Have More to Say” (The German edition entitled “Im Zeugenstand: Was wir noch sagen solten” was released in 2012.), a highly recommended resource has become available for use in educational institutions and schools for the purposes of raising awareness of, providing proof of, and vividly invoking the human suffering that the National Socialist state apparatus
The strategy employed in the project is particularly noteworthy: questions were sent from educational institutions all over the world, and 100 of these were selected and put to nine people, also from different countries, who were victimized by the National Socialists’ totalitarian system of rule for various reasons. Selected answers from the survivors are included on a DVD as an audiovisual document, together with accompanying educational material.
This approach means that the accounts and memories related by the witnesses of history in the interviews can be compared, and they also represent irrefutable testimony of the consequences of a policy of marginalization, segregation, dehumanization, and even murder of those groups specifically identified by the National Socialists as a result of their obsession with race.
The Department of Political Education at the Federal Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture wishes to express its sincere gratitude to Mr. Bernhard Rammerstorfer for the years he has spent accompanying the witness of history Leopold Engleitner, and for the commitment he showed that led to the publication of this book.
Vienna, February 29, 2012
Manfred Wirtitsch
On behalf of the Ministry
1014 Wien Minoritenplatz 5
T 01 531 20-0
F 01 531 20-3099
ministerium@bmukk.gv.at
www.bmukk.gv.at
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