Martha Liebermann: A Stolen Life

Tuesday, July 16, 1:15pm; JCC Hart Theater

Narrative  |  2023  |  88 min. | German (w/subtitles)  |  Germany
Director: Stefan Bühling

Upper-class widow Martha Liebermann stubbornly refused to leave her beloved homeland, choosing to remain in war-torn Berlin. Despite her Jewish heritage, her reputation – and that of her late husband famous painter Max Liebermann – she had managed to stay safe from the Nazis until early 1943. Faced with imminent deportation to a concentration camp, she was encouraged to sell some of her husband’s valuable paintings and use the funds to make her escape. Martha Liebermann: A Stolen Life is the true story of this distinguished 85-year-old woman and the impossible choices she was forced to make.

Mature content.

Underwritten by
Stacey and Marc Saiontz
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