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Recovered Memories
November 17, 2018 , 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
title: Recovered Memories
description: Gary and Diane Schwager will present over 50 letters and photos exchanged between their family members desperately trying to leave Germany and their final destinations. Evening includes Havdalah service and candle lighting. Light refreshments will be served.
start-date: 2018-11-17
start time: 7:00 p.m..
end date: 2018-11-17
end time: 9:00 p.m.
all-day event:
recurring event: No
event address: Temple David
4415 Northern Pike
Monroeville, Pa 15146
event organizer: Temple David
event website: http://templedavid.org
event cost: 0.00
title: Recovered Memories
description: An intimate refugee story portrayed by beautiful photographs, restored by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in DC, and family letters translated 50 years after the Holocaust. The 80 year-old photos were recovered in 2017 and were taken with a Leica I, the camera that changed photography by popularizing SLR film and compact cameras.
start-date: 2018-11-17
start time: 07:00 PM
end date: 2018-11-17
end time: 09:30 PM
all-day event:
recurring event: No
Erwin Schwager photographed the pictures in this exhibit in his early 20s before he emigrated to the US on October 26,1938 at the age of 24. He arrived in the US just three days before Kristallnacht. When Erwin was in his late seventies, he translated his family’s letters from the “onion-skin” copies his family used with their typewriters to share their correspondence. Over three years, Erwin alone wrote over 150 letters and other family members produced similar volumes.
Mr. Schwager had lived a beautiful life as a young German. He enjoyed foreign travel, hiking, skiing, sailing, ice skating, horseback riding, and bicycling. Erwin was also an avid photographer, performed in local piano concerts, and was a gold medal winning distance runner.
Erwin raised his children to believe that it was wrong to blame Germans, born after the war, for the crimes and wrongdoings of the 1930’s and the Holocaust. Instead of leading a life full of bitterness for his many great losses, Erwin was a grateful person who relished life and appreciated its simple pleasures. He was also a hard working provider, a devoted father and husband and a model American citizen.
event organizer: Gary J Schwager
event website: https://www.facebook.com/events/272657230101401/
event cost: Free