In Two Worlds
Eyewitness talk with Jack Weil (in German, recording available)
Jack Weil, born in Amsterdam in 1949, is a witness of the second generation: His German-born parents emigrated to the Netherlands with their respective spouses before the start of the war and were deported in 1944, one from Westerbork to Bergen-Belsen , the other via Theresienstadt to Auschwitz.
recording available
Where
W. M. Blumenthal Academy,
Klaus Mangold Auditorium
Fromet-und-Moses-Mendelssohn-Platz 1, 10969 Berlin
(Opposite the Museum)
They returned alone and married in 1948. Jack Weil grew up with two languages and in two cultures: post-war Holland and the bygone culture of his German-Jewish parents became the two worlds that shaped him.
After a successful career in finance, Jack Weil founded the Amsterdam Jewish Film Festival in 2001, which he directed for ten years. In 2014, he initiated a coffee and cake society that organizes a meeting of descendants of German-Jewish refugees four times a year.
Jack Weil with his mother; photo: Private
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Video recording from 10 March 2025, in German; Jewish Museum Berlin 2025
With the support of Berliner Sparkasse.
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Eyewitness Talks
In this event series eyewitnesses tell of their fates during the nazi era (video recordings available, in German, some of them with English subtitles)
