German events this weekend

This weekend the holiday season begins...The German American School is having their annual Christmas Market out at the German American School. It is a really nice event and will start to put you in an early holiday mood. More information under http://www.gspdx.com/

Another fantastic event this weekend is the lecture about Charlotte Salomon's life the title of the lecture is "To Create Her World Anew: Charlotte Salomon’s Story in Art" it is at 1 P.M. on November 23rd, 2008 70 NW Couch, Room 142, Portland 97202. The lecture is by Prof. Mary Lowenthal Felstiner. She is a historian at San Francisco State University, Visiting Professor at Stanford University, author of "To Paint Her Life: Charlotte Salomon in the Nazi Era", and foremost authority on Charlotte Salomon. We went to the concert on October 19th 2008 at the Old Church and it was just AMAZING...I am sure that the lecture will just be as fantastic.

Here is the Wikipedia link...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Salomon

A little bit of background about Charlotte Salomon:

Charlotte Salomon, born in Berlin in 1917, grew up in an assimilated Jewish family as the daughter of a surgeon and a singer. Hitler’s rise to power changed the family’s situation drastically and Charlotte escaped in 1939 to her grandparents’ estate in the South of France. The Gestapo arrested her there in 1943 and deported her to Auschwitz, where she was murdered. Before her arrest she gave her complete work to a friend, reminding him: “Please keep this safe. This is my entire life!”

Enjoy these events. - If you go, please let me know how you liked them...