The Jerusalem Working Group for Recognition of Major Shoah Era Jewish Rescuers, in cooperation with AMCHA, presents:
Rebecca and Joseph Bau -The Miracle
Story of the couple who saved many Jews and got married in
a camp, as shown in "Schindler’s List"
Painting by Joseph Bau
Sunday, October 24, 2004 at 5 PM
AMCHA
Rechov Hillel 23 8th floor, Jerusalem
AMCHA is a non-profit organization providing psychological and other
support
to Holocaust survivors and their descendents
Program in Hebrew
Content:
guest book | lyrics of ballads | photos | program | summary
Contact: lpfeffer@actcom.co.il
Beacons in the Darkness
Painting by Yitzchak Greenfield
Studio Greenfield
Rechov HaOren 5, Ein Kerem, Jerusalem 95744
www.greenfieldstudio.com
info@greenfieldstudio.com
Johanna Gottesfeld, Director
of AMCHA’s Jerusalem Office, Opening Remarks
Introduction, Larry Pfeffer – Jerusalem Working Group
Hadassah Bau sings two songs she wrote
Ballads about Heroes of the Holocaust and Rebirth sung by the
composer,
David ben Reuven
Presentation by Hadassah and Clila Bau,
Rebecca and Joseph Bau’s daughters.
Their Web site: www.josephbau.com
Rebecca and Joseph Bau’s wedding in a camp is shown in the movie "Schindler’s List". Mr. Bau was a painter, graphic artist, writer, poet, and animation pioneer who created animated movies using equipment he built with his own two hands. His uniqueness is in his original viewpoint which combines humor, laughter and optimism on subjects that are usually accompanied by anxiety, trauma and bitterness.
The lecture tells the wondrous life story of the Baus in a fascinating way that combines humor. This story includes the many miracles that happened to them before, during and after the Holocaust.
Mr. Bau was used as a graphic artist in the Ghetto and camps. This enabled him to forge documents and identity papers that allowed more than 400 Jews to escape the ghetto and the camp. Mrs. Bau also saved hundreds of people by risking herself. She put Mr.Bau’s name on Schindler’s List, and she was sent to Auschwitz.
The lecture emphasizes how it is possible to keep dignity and freedom of thought under disgraceful circumstances meant to destroy any semblance of human warmth. The Bau couple’s strength was in their ability to cope with impossible hardships with humor, optimism, love of their fellow man and always finding the good in even the worst situations. These traits allowed the Baus to survive the inferno of the Shoah, while saving their souls and the lives of hundreds of other Jews.
These important messages are conveyed through the use of Joseph Bau’s unique drawings done in the ghetto and concentration camps and poems written in those impossible circumstances.
Joseph Bau in his Tel Aviv studio
Content:
guest book | lyrics of ballads | photos | program | summary
Oct 23, 2004