TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: World War II. Poland

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Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Movie Review: The True Story Behind Remembrance (Die Verlonere Zeit)

I feel like I'm a roll because I found another good movie on Netflix.

Remembrance is a 2011 German release of a Holocaust-related film. German-Jewish Hannah Silverstien survived a Nazi prison camp and now lives comfortably in New York with her husband and daughter when she discovers that her wartime lover who had helped her escape survived World War II. The movie crosscuts between scenes of the woman in New York and wartime scenes.

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books.. Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized. Cecilia has received many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines. She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.