Sue Arns (former Sue Blumenthal)

 

Dear friends,

so much is happening in Berlin, just one more week and we'll be celebrating the Berlin Film Festival "Berlinale" (15. - 25. Febr. 2018). We are exited! And spring is coming!

 

About our privat life

As announced in our last newsletter we now ordered our new Mercedes V-Class Van, which will be delivered in June. Meaning to say: This will be a luxurious van capable of seating up to 6 clients. We can't wait to get it!

Our personal commemoration project of laying stumbling-stones ("Stolpersteine") for 4 more family-members has been postponed for 2019. The reason is that this project has become so successful that the waiting line in the neighbourhood of Berlin-Charlottenburg is too long for an earlier date.

Stolpersteine for Sue's family

The stones will be laid right beside the building which was the last residence of Sue's mother, grandmother and grandfather. Their stones as well as the stones for the rest of our family have been laid already some years ago.

But recently we found out that the sister of Sue's grandmother lived just in the building beside Sue's grandparents (see photo up above)! She lived there with her 3 children.

For us it is a pitty having to wait so long since our relatives from France, whom we just found 2 years ago, also want to attend the ceremony and have to wait this much time...

 

Commemoration inspired by Gunter Demnig

Because we are real fans and supporters of Gunter Demnig's project "Stolpersteine" (www.stolpersteine.eu) we want to bring your attention to a recent article in the Washington Post about this kind of commemoration and how it influences commemoration in the United States. The author Peter Cole expresses exactly what we think!

By reading this article and the comments readers added to it, we got the knowledge about at least two projects in the US, that are based on Gunter Demnigs work:

Stoppingstones and

Witnessstones

We highly recommend to visit and support those projects - or found a new project in your neighborhood?

 

Public Commemoration - Lest we forget

Lest we forget - view to Palace Charlottenburg

Since January 27 (Holocaust-Remembrance-day = Liberation of Auschwitz Camp) until April 14, 2018 (Yom Hashoah) the travelling exhibition "Gegen das Vergessen/Lest we forget" created by Luigi Toscano is located right in front of one of the symbols of German monarchy, Palace Charlottenburg.

Remember: The last emperor started World War I and the defeat in that war led into the Nazi-Reich and the Shoah...

Susan Cernyak Spatz *Eckstein (Vienna/Austria 1922) May 1942 Ordered to the ghetto Theresienstadt with the mother January 1943 Deportation to the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau January 1945 Death march to the concentration camp Ravensbrück Spring 1945 Liberated by the red army

Walter Frankenstein(Zlotow/Poland 1924)In 1936 he fled from his hometown in West Prussia to Berlin and found shelter in the orphanage "Auerbach'sches Waisenhaus". Here he met Leonie Rösner. They got Married in 1942. Shortly after their wedding, they had to underground in Berlin. Their two sons were born in the hiding place. In 1946 the family migrated to Palestine. And in 1956 they settled in Sweden.

 

Huge portraits of victims of the Shoah now in their older age are shown at the alley leading to the palace. Each of them is accompanied by a small explanation of the victims path throughout the Nazitime. Look at the faces, read the stories - I couldn't do it for long time, it is so heartbreaking to again see what those people had to go through, the losses of family, of an uninterrupted normal life. I could see people walking around, all silent, everybody got very emotional, touched.

The best is: You can bring this exhibition to your city - it's intended! And: There is an app available for the exhibition - download here.

Lest we forget - view to Palace Charlottenburg

 

 

Exhibition Jews, Christians and Muslims - Scientific Discourse in the Middle Ages 500-1500

At Martin-Gropius-Bau near by Topography of Terror until March 4 there is an interesting exhibition about the golden time of tolerance between Jews, Christians and Muslims in the Millde Ages. Have a look at the website.

Interestingly the new director of this museum is the former chief curator of London's Hayward Gallery Stephanie Rosenthal.

 

Exhibition "Wanderlust" at Alte Nationalgalerie 

From May 10 to Sept. 16, 2018 there will be an extraordinary exhibiton at Berlin's Alte Nationalgalerie with paintings of Caspar David Friedrich, Paul Gauguin, Karl-Friedrich-Schinkel etc.

Have a look at the website.

 

Gianni Versace Retrospective

He's not a Berliner, but he loved Berlin and his fashion was outstanding. Now you can walk into an exhibition of his famous art until April 13, 2018 at Kronprinzenpalais (Unter den Linden 3).

 

Additional information about events in Berlin in 2018

From August 7 - 12, 2018 the European Athletics Championship takes place in Berlin. See here.

Berlin Art Week has changed it's time schedule to late September, exact date is not available at the moment, we will inform you.

The reason is that the fair Art Berlin is happening at that time (Sept. 27 - 30, 2018)! See here.

 

Our warmest regards

Eckart Aaron and Sue Arns with the new Mercedes Viano

Sue (Shoshana) and Eckart (Aaron) Arns

your Berlin Dream-Team

February 11, 2018


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