The history of brother and sister Eva and Heinz Geiringer will be presented at The Kristallnacht Interfaith Confronting Bigotry Commemoration of the Capital Region on Nov. 13, with the showing of the film.“Eva’s Promise.” Poster for film.
The annual Capital District Interfaith Kristallnacht Commemoration is slated for Wednesday, Nov. 13, at 7 p.m. It will be held at Page Hall, 135 Western Ave., Albany.
Eighty-six years ago, November 9-10, 1938, the Nazis staged vicious attacks against Jews in Germany and Austria in riots that came to be known as Kristallnacht or “Night of Broken Glass.” Often considered as the “Night the Holocaust Began,” hundreds of synagogues and businesses were destroyed, and 30,000 Jewish men and boys were arrested and sent to concentration camps.
The Kristallnacht Interfaith Confronting Bigotry Commemoration of the Capital Region is sponsored to unite the community against prejudice, according to organizers.
The free program, open to the community, will feature the premiere showing of the film, “Eva’s Promise,” which relates the story of Eve and Heinz Geiringer, a brother and sister, during the Holocaust. It was 1944, Eva promises her brother that if he does not survive the camps and that if she does that she will retrieve his artwork and writing in the attic floor where he and his father had been hiding. Later she would donate his work to the Resistance Museum in Amsterdam.
The program is sponsored by the Holocaust Survivors and Friends Education Center, the Judaic Studies program of the University at Albany and the Jewish Federation of Northeastern NY.
