Invitation to a Messianic Jewish Welcome Celebration (Open to all Jews and Christians)

Saturday, 4 August 2012
--10:30: Messianic Jewish Welcome Celebration: The Messianic Community of welcomes all Jewish persons back to Austria. Jewish people, who are already in Austria, will be welcomed symbolically; and those, who are visiting Austria, in a literal sense. All Jewish people, as well as Christians, are warmly welcome to participate, regardless from where they come.

--Where?
HdH,
Braunhirschengasse 6,
1150 Vienna,
Austria
Europe
 
--Special points:
Please contact the organizer per email bethyeschua@gmail.com if any of the following points applies to you:

1. If you are a holocaust surivor (or someone you know is a holocaust survivor), and you wish to give a very short speech on the topic “Welcoming Jews back to Austria”, please make contact.

2. If your relative was a holocaust victim, and you wish to have his or her name read out during the above celebration, please let us know.

3. If you were a nazi party member or are a descendant of a nazi party member and wish to make a reconciliatory public apology (or if you know somebody who wants to do so), please contact us.

4. If you or your group want to present an appropriate artistic performance, please email us.

5. If you or your group want to provide appropriate items to the Messianic Community, please feel free to do so.

Notice: Everybody is invited to bring Jewish relatives, friends and acquaintances. More than 120,000 Jews fled Austria before the second world war. Of the 70,000 who remained in Austria, most of them were killed by the nazis, some of them even in Austria’s very own concentration camp, Mauthausen.

The Messianic Community requests all participants to please set aside all differences during this celebration. Unity in essentials must prevail over differences and let us allow ourselves to find common ground. We appreciate the variety in the details of religious beliefs and expression. We thank you in advance.

Because the Messianic Community of Vienna - the organizer - is not able to provide financial support, all participants cover their own costs, in order to participate in this welcome celebration.

For those who are interested in supporting this event:

Donations are welcome:
Bank details:
Name of Account Holder: Austrian Mission
Account Number: 206.417
Bank or Sort Code: 33125

Swift-BIC-Code: RLBBAT2E125
IBAN: AT103312500000206417

Please forward this invitation to interested people.

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Casting Call: A private film production is making a documentary film about the lives of holocaust survivors, as well as the lives of their descendants, for the purpose, in part, of submitting it to a film festival. If interested, please contact us: bethyeschua@gmail.com

The documentary film project (without a budget) would be a narration on the lives of those who fled or survived the Holocaust. Using diaries, film clips, interviews, letters, photos, as well as reenactments in the real locations of the subject’s life, it will be a vivid portrayal of both the subject and what they symbolize.

If one would like to give a financial contribution for this film project about the lives of those who fled or survived the Holocaust, or if one would like to be a part of the film team (such as: advisor, cutter, actor, scriptwriter, editor, cameraman, extra, composer, musician, producer, director, voice over artist, make-up artist, etc.), contact us please.

If one is in possession of certain items (such as: archive footage, film materials, photos, household articles, devices, clothing, military uniforms, diaries, replica arms, etc.) that reflect the time from 1938 to 1945, which can be used as film props, and if one wishes to make these available, share it with us please.

If the house/apartment or the area, in which one lives, is a suitable place that reflects the time from 1938 to 1945, and if one wishes to make these available, please let us know.

Film Production is on-going in Vienna and surrounding area.

Press Contact:
Nina Grubeck*, B.A. (Theology), M.A. (Peace & Conflict Resolution)
Email: bethyeschua@gmail.com

*As one of the producers and composers, Nina Grubeck has a personal interest in this film, in that two of the persons, whose lives are narrated, are her great-grandmother (Mathilde Brosam) and great-aunt (Anna Brosam). Both were murdered by the Nazis, one in a concentration camp (Theresienstadt) and the other in a euthanasia murder facility (Hartheim).

"I would very much like somebody to remember that there once lived a Jewish person by the name of Mathilde Brosam, born Kreitner-Falk. She is my Jewish-Austrian-Czech great grandmother; also her daughter, Anna Brosam, who is my great aunt, perished in the Holocaust in Austria. I know all my cousins, who are descendants of the Vienna-born children of Mathilde & Moritz Brosam. I would like to meet my other cousins, whom I have never met, who are descendants of the parents of Mathilde & Moritz Brosam. Mathile Brosam was born in 1871 in Heřmanův Městec / Hermannstädtel, Bohemia. Moritz Brosam was born in 1868 in Heřmanův Městec / Hermannstädtel, Bohemia. The parents of Mathilde Brosam were Samuel Falk and Anna Kreitner. The parents of Moritz Brosam were Samuel Brosam and Amalie Felner."

Organizer: Beth Yeschua Messianic Synagogue
http://www.yeschua.at