The children's home on Auguststrasse

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Movie
German title The children's home on Auguststrasse
Original title The House on August Street
Country of production Germany , Israel
original language Hebrew , German
Publishing year 2007
length 62 minutes
Rod
Director Ayelet Bargur
script Noa Berman-Herzberg
production Edna Kowarsky
Elinor Kowarsky
Ayelet Bargur
music Jonatan Bar-Giora
camera Shay Levi
Dudu Itzhaki
cut Einat Glazer-Zarhin
occupation

Naomi Krauss
(as Sister Superior Beate Berger)
David Marcus
(lived in Berlin's Ahawa from 5-17, Palestine)
Otto (Israel) Weiss
("Ahawa child", lived in Berlin's Ahawa from 5-17, Palestine)
Josef Goldschmidt
("Ahawa child", lived in Berlin's Ahawa from 6-17, Palestine)
Soshana Breier, b. Goldschmidt
("Ahawa child", lived in Berlin's Ahawa from 6-17, Palestine)
Peppi Senser, b. Lamberger
("Ahawa child", lived in Berlin's Ahawa from 6-17, Palestine)
Lea Weisman, b. Reif
("Ahawa child", lived in the Berlin Ahawa from 7-17, Palestine)
Somka Reif
("Ahawa child", lived in the Berlin Ahawa from 7-17, Palestine)
Avital Ben-Chorin
("Ahawa child ", Lived in the Berlin Ahawa from 13-17, Palestine)
Ard Feder
(" Ahawa child ", lived in the Berlin Ahawa from 14-16, Palestine)

The children's home on Auguststrasse is a documentary film about the fate of the children of the Jewish children's home in Beit Ahawah ( Hebrew בית אהבה, House of Love ) in Auguststrasse 14/16 in Berlin-Mitte . The history of the facility is closely linked to the life of the founder and longstanding director.

Beate Berger ( Hebrew ביאטה ברגר) caused the two Jewish painters Max Liebermann and Hermann Struck to sell some of their pictures in a campaign for the construction of a new Ahawah home in Palestine. Berger sewed the proceeds of 30,000 marks into her skirt and disguised as a nun went to Trieste, where she went to Haifa to build the refuge with the money. However, in order to bring the children of the Berlin home to Palestine, the British government of Palestine had to issue child certificates, one of the conditions being that the child had to be at least 15 years old. However, since younger children also lived in the home, certificates could only be issued for the older children. From 1934 to 1939, around 100 Jewish children were brought to Haifa in five groups and thus saved from deportation . The children who remained in Berlin were deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp , where none survived.

Beate Berger was able to bring a total of 300 children from Europe to Haifa, 100 of whom came from Germany, 75 from Austria, 15 from Italy and 100 from Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary. She died on May 20, 1940 in Kirjat Bialik near Haifa , in the place where the children's home was newly built after fleeing Germany and where it still exists today as the Ahava Village for Children & Youth .

The documentary filmed by Ayelet Bargur is based on her book Ahawah is love and was made as a co-production by RBB, MDR and Israeli TV. It appeared on November 15, 2007 at 10:35 p.m. on Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb) and on December 12, 2007 at 00:05 a.m. on Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR). On May 15, 2008 the film received the Prix ​​Circom regional . Various former Ahawa children from Berlin report on Beate Berger and her life in Palestine.

literature

  • Ayelet Bargur: Ahawah means love: the story of the Jewish children's home in Berlin's Auguststrasse . dtv, 2006, ISBN 3-423-24521-2 .
  • Regina Scheer : Ahawah. The forgotten house. Searching for clues in Berlin's Auguststrasse. Berlin and Weimar 1992.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ fact or cinematic fiction?
  2. ^ Ahava Village History