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When a young Eva Kollisch arrives as a refugee in New York in 1940, she finds a community among socialists who share her values and idealism. She soon discovers ‘the cause’ isn’t as idyllic as it seems. Little does she know this is the beginning of a lifelong commitment to activism and her determination to create radical change in ways that include belonging, love and one's full self. In addition to Eva Kollisch’s memoirs Girl in Movement (2000) and The Ground Under My Feet (2014), LBI’s collections include an oral history interview with Eva conducted in 2014 and the papers of Eva’s mother, poet Margarete Kolllisch, which document Eva’s childhood experience on the Kindertransport. Learn more at www.lbi.org/kollisch . Exile is a production of the Leo Baeck Institute , New York | Berlin and Antica Productions . It’s narrated by Mandy Patinkin. Executive Producers include Katrina Onstad, Stuart Coxe, and Bernie Blum. Senior Producer is Debbie Pacheco. Associate Producers are Hailey Choi and Emily Morantz. Research and translation by Isabella Kempf. Sound design and audio mix by Philip Wilson, with help from Cameron McIver. Theme music by Oliver Wickham. Voice acting by Natalia Bushnik. Special thanks to the Kollisch family for the use of Eva’s two memoirs, “Girl in Movement” and “The Ground Under My Feet”, the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College and their “Voices of Feminism Oral History Project”, and Soundtrack New York.…
In our common experience, we find many people who are suppressed, frustrated, and depressed in their life. Despite being with family, they have been left alone. No one talks to them, help them to restart their life. These people need a daily dose of positivity to change their perspective towards life and the people around them. They are socially deprived of love, affection and connect. This community is expanding astonishingly fast. And, I am extremely concerned
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Most of the time we spend our life surviving the rat race of our selfish intent, keep running behind impulsive substance, and trying to fulfill unlimited desires. We can still survive without all these, just need to be with self and family. Never play with mother nature because we are the part of mother nature. Be with self - Be with family. --- Se…
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‘Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.’ ~Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Every one of us is always in search of happiness externally, however, it continuously available within us forever. It’s important to know the source of our happiness. Is it from things like having someone love you, or eating …
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तर मित्रांनो सांगायचे तात्पर्य सध्या कोरोनामुळे आपली अवस्था बिर्याणीतल्या खड्यासारखी झाली आहे. कुणाला हा खडा येईल हे सांगता येत नाही. "जगण्यातील सहजता" गेली. अगदी मदत करणारा हात देखील कोरोनाचा असेल का, दूधवाला, भाजीवाला, किराणावाला जीवनावश्यक वस्तू देताना वस्तू बरोबर काय देईल याची शंका घेऊन जगतोय आपण. माहीत नाही किती दिवस चालेल हे पण "जगण्यातली सहज…
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