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A Pocketful of Miracles
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In commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, join filmmaker Aviva Kempner for a screening of her newest project, A Pocketful of Miracles: A Tale of Two Siblings.
In the film, director and Berlin-born Aviva Kempner chronicles her mother, Hanka and uncle Dudek Ciesla’s lives before and during World War II. From their idyllic Jewish upbringing in Poland through their survival of the Holocaust to their tearful reunion after the war, this moving documentary follows the incredible story of these loving siblings and the incredible lives they built in America as painter Helen Ciesla Covensky and businessman and philanthropist David Chase.
Executive Director Rebekah Sobel will moderate a discussion with Kempner and Rabbi Michael Cahana after the screening.
The film’s run time is approximately 90 minutes.