As Irene Butter’s Pappi fights to save his family during the Holocaust, Irene’s childhood is lost. Play is restricted. Family and friends disappear. Finally, with the Dutch police at their door comes the reality that Irene’s father has not moved his family far enough from Hitler’s Germany. By January 1945, the family is struggling to survive a death camp. Irene tends her ailing parents, cares for starving kids, and even helps bring clothes to her Amsterdam neighbor Anne Frank, before her family is offered a singular chance for freedom…providing the Nazi doctor says they are healthy enough. After two weeks of heart-lifting miracles and heart-breaking tragedies, Irene arrives in the Algerian desert to journey into redemption and womanhood, without her parents or brother.
Irene’s first person memoir, Shores Beyond Shores, is an account of how the heart keeps its common humanity in the most inhumane and turbulent of times. Irene’s hard-earned lessons are a timeless inspiration.
Dr. Irene Hasenberg Butter is a well known peace activist, Holocaust survivor, and Professor Emerita of Public Health at the University of Michigan. She is a frequent and favored inspirational speaker, talking about her experience during World War II and stressing the importance of “never a bystander” and that one person can make a difference.
For more information contact Kari Altman at 414-963-2716 or KariA@MilwaukeeJewish.org.
Free and open to the public.
Generously Sponsored By:
Werner L. Loewenstein Memorial Endowment
The Sweet, Halaska & Bankier Families in loving memory of Michael & Esther Bankier
Terry & Diane Jacobs in loving memory of Phyllis & George Jagiello
Co-Sponsor:
Congregation Sinai
Date:
Sun. October 28, 2018
Time:
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Location:
Congregation Sinai
8223 N Port Washington Road