The Story of Kalman & Leopold
Event Ended- Where
- Norman Rothstein Theatre - 950 West 41st Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia View Map
- When
- Price
- Free Buy Tickets
- Ages
- 15+
- Website
- https://leosjourney.ca/watch-documentary/
- Contact
- rkl@brandedexperiences.com 6046572233 (Richard K Lowy)
In Commemoration of the 78th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau The Story of Kalman & Leopold Vivid recollections of day-to-day details at the extermination camp by Kalman Bar-on are being made public for the first time in Canada at an International Holocaust Remembrance Day presentation in Vancouver. Previously unseen testimony providing a unique glimpse at the Nazi atrocities committed at the Birkenau death camp, given from the vantage point of a Jewish witness posted in a camp guard shack, will be presented at 6:30pm on Thursday January 26th,2023 on the eve of the 78th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau at the Rothstein Theatre. The testimony of “Mengele twin” Kalman Bar-on will be revealed by Richard K. Lowy, a Jewish Canadian and the son of Holocaust survivor Leopold Lowy — another twin who was subjected to the notorious SS doctor Josef Mengele’s gruesome human experiments at Birkenau’s Hospital Camp during the Holocaust. Lowy will deliver the testimony. Richard Lowy was on a decade-long mission to preserve his father’s recollections as Canada’s last surviving “Mengele twin” when his efforts yielded an unforeseen link to Bar-on in Israel. “I will try to paint this map of fear, pointing out the difference between fear from the paws and boot of SS Guard Sgt. Fritsche Fritz, the palpable fear for our lives when witnessing a delivery of the next batch of walking skeletons to the crematorium, the ice-cold grab in my chest when I am lying on the stone table during the periodic medical checks of Mengele, and the ever-present knowledge, that no one, but no one, will survive and emerge from Birkenau,” begins Bar-on’s testimony. Limited Seating