Wed, Mar 26
|The Wallis
Here There Are Blueberries: Talkback with Descendants of the Holocaust
After an evening performance of Here There Are Blueberries, HMLA’s Chief Impact Officer and granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, Jordanna Gessler, will chat with writer and TV news producer, Audrey Stimson, whose grandmother was Hitler’s telephone operator.
Time & Location
Mar 26, 2025, 7:30 PM
The Wallis, 9390 N Santa Monica Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA 90210, USA
About
Based on real events, Here There Are Blueberries is the nationally acclaimed Pulitzer Prize Finalist, conceived and directed by Tony Award-nominee Moisés Kaufman and his Tectonic Theater Project. It tells the riveting true story behind a mysterious album featuring Nazi-era photographs—what they reveal about the perpetrators of the Holocaust and, ultimately, about our own humanity.
Don’t miss this limited engagement at The Wallis from Mar 13 – 30 only.
After the evening performance on March 26th, HMLA’s Chief Impact Officer and granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, Jordanna Gessler, will chat with writer and TV news producer, Audrey Stimson, whose grandmother was Hitler’s telephone operator about the responsibilities descendants of Holocaust survivors and of Nazi perpetrators carry forward.
Audrey Stimson
Audrey began her life in Germany. Her mother was German, and her father was an American Foreign Service Officer. Audrey’s Grandmother served as Hitler’s head secretary Berlin. Growing up in both Europe and the United States has given her a unique ability embrace our differences and celebrate our similarities. For almost 30 years, she has had a career as a television news producer for American and European news outlets.
Jordanna Gessler
The granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, Jordanna provides strategic leadership for the education and archive departments at Holocaust Museum LA. She conducted research in the Righteous Among the Nations Department at Yad Vashem and won the 2014 Yad Vashem Award for Research. Jordanna has written articles and presented internationally on topics including contemporary Antisemitism, fiction and the Holocaust, art and resistance, and teaching empathy. She is an active member of several non-profit organizations and sits on the board of the Council of American Jewish Museums, which was named by the White House as part of the National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism.
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