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1996
- February 22nd: Lara and Claire Nuer meet Rachel Levin from
Steven Spielberg's Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
in Los Angeles to present the film and raise funds.
- March 3rd - 5th: The film is presented at the "26th Annual
Scholars' Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches."
- March 24th and 26th : Public screenings of the film in Paris.
- September: The film is broadcasted twice on national television
(Channel France 2) in "La Source de Vie" hosted by Josy
Eisenberg.
- October 2nd - 6th: Claire and Lara Nuer participate in the
"State of the World Forum." Claire is a speaker in the
panel " Evil and Civilization " to talk about the Holocaust
and about the " Turning Point" project, accompanied
by Gottfried Wagner (the great-grand son of the composer).
- October 7th: Claire Nuer is invited to a screening of the Turning
Point film, followed by a Q&A at Zieva Konvisser's home, close
to Detroit. Among the twenty guests: Rabbis, University Professors,
and members of Zieva's Chrysler management team.
- November 15th: Claire and Lara Nuer present the work of ACC
and the Turning Point film to professor Abdul Aziz Said.
1997
- January 27th - 30th: Display of the Turning Point exhibition
and screenings of the film at the European Parliament in Brussels.
- March 1st - 4th: Display of the Turning Point exhibition and
screening of the film at the "27th Annual Scholars' Conference
on the Holocaust and the Churches" in Tampa, Florida. Claire
Nuer, Lara Nuer and Marc-André Olivier represent the project.
1998
- March 1st - 3rd: Lara Nuer presents the Turning Point film
at the "28th Annual Scholars' Conference on the Holocaust
and the Churches," in Seattle, Washington. The conference
is sponsored by the University of Washington on the theme: Holocaust
and Genocide in the 2Ist century.
- November 5th - 9th: At the "State of the World Forum"
in San Francisco, Lara Nuer organizes and participates in a round
table on "Business for the World, a Daily Challenge for
Leaders and Organizations" with Claire Nuer, Peter Senge
(author of the best seller The Fifth Discipline, founder of the
Society for Organizational Learning, and Professor at MIT), Iva
Wilson (ex-president of Philips Display Components, president
of Society for Organizational Learning) and George McCown (Managing
Director at McCown DeLeeuw & Company). Shayne Hughes also
presented the Turning Point exhibition.
2011
15 years later, the influence of the Turning Point Gatherings continues...
For example, during one of the walks through the camp, participants Zieva and Marc Konvisser
from Michigan, had joined in with the group at the killing field in Auschwitz-Birkenau
in chanting the Kaddish (Jewish prayer for the dead) to commerate the memory of those
who had perished there. At the suggestion of facilitator Sam Cohen and the members of
Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam (a cooperative village where Jews and Palestinian Israeli
experiment living together) they added a few words for world peace to the last two
phrases of the Kaddish to include the world:
"Let there be abundant peace from Heaven, with life’s goodness for us and for
all the people Israel - and for all the world.
And let us say: Amen."
"He who brings peace to His universe will bring peace to us and to all the people
Israel - and to all the world.
And let us say: Amen."
Shortly after Zieva and Marc returned home, they shared this experience and offered the
same suggestion to the members of their Conservative synagogue during the Yom Kippur
Martyrology service commemorating those who had perished in the ghettos and
concentration camps. The entire Beth Shalom congregation rose and chanted this version
of the special Martyrology Kaddish - and have continued this tradition.
In 2011, they changed mahzors from the traditional Harlow mahzor to the newly
published Mahzor Lev Shalom. The new language [v’al kol yosh’vei teiveil]
was included in the mourner’s kaddish throughout the Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur services:
"May the One who brings harmony on high, bring harmony to us and to all Israel
[and to all who dwell on earth]. And respond with: Amen."
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