Overview of the Plans

We are bringing in Martin Doblmeier, award winning filmmaker, whose film Bonhoeffer is simply outstanding. We will show that movie at the Figge on November 8th, a Saturday. He and a panel will speak after the film.

We are also bringing in Victoria Barnett. She is the Director of Church Relations at the US Holocaust Museum in Washington. Her publisher is Oxford and her specialty is the idea of Bystanders. She will be presenting services at Temple on Friday November 7th and at Tri City Jewish on Saturday morning the 8th.

Here is the schedule:
Friday evening. November 7, 2008
Victoria Barnett at Temple Emanuel, Davenport, Iowa
Henry Karp, Rabbi.

Saturday morning. November 8, 2008
Victoria Barnett at Tri-City Jewish Center, Rock Island Illinois
Michael Samuel, Rabbi.

Saturday evening: 6 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Figge Art Museum
(unveiling of Eisch prints related to Kristallnacht)
7 p.m.- 8 p.m. Bonhoeffer, the Movie
8-9 Panel Discussion:
Martin Doblmeier, Filmmaker (confirmed)
Victoria Barnett, scholar (confirmed)
Dr. Alan Goldfarb, President Western Illinois University (invited).

Sunday: 2-4 p.m.
Workshops at Tri-City Jewish Center:
Poetry of Witness, Professor Rebecca Wee, Augustana College (will be invited)
The Church and The Shoah (workshop leader to be determined)
Books about the Shoah and Kristallnacht (Paul Ingraham, Prairie Lights, Iowa City)
others--art; bystanders, etc, etc are possibilities

We are hoping to build a set at the Center that might be
constructed to resemble a street during kristallnacht.

Tuesday, November 11
German American Heritage Center book discussion: Kristallnacht by M. Gilbert


Serving on the committee:
Rabbi Henry Karp, Temple Emanuel
Sam Gilman, chair of the Day and Rausch Foundations
Rabbi Michael Samuel, Tri City Jewish Center
Sean O'Harrow, Figge Art Museum
Ron Quay, Churches United
Dr. Art Pitz, historian
Bill Zessar
Ida Kramer
Allan Ross, Jewish Federation
John Kiley, Diocese of Davenport
Marrietta Cassell, education consultant
Chuck Robovits
Rick Weinstein, chair, Yom HaShoah
Rev. Don Johnson, Destiny Baptist
Kai Swanson, Augustana College
Michael Hustedde, St. Ambrose (and German American Heritage Center)