Watermarks

Thursday, December 11, 2008
6:30 pm - Film screening
Holocaust Center of Northern California
121 Steuart Street, lower level

Watermarks is the story of the champion women swimmers of the legendary Jewish sports club, Hakoah Vienna. Hakoah (“The Strength" in Hebrew) was founded in 1909 in response to the notorious Aryan Paragraph, which forbade Austrian sports clubs from accepting Jewish athletes. Hakoah rapidly grew into one of Europe's biggest athletic clubs but after the Anschluss in 1938, the Nazis shut down the club. The swimmers all managed to flee the country before the war broke out.

Sixty-five years later, director Yaron Zilberman meets the members of the women’s swim team in their homes around the world, and arranges for them to have a reunion in their old swimming pool in Vienna, a journey that evokes memories of youth and femininity, and strengthens lifelong bonds. Told by the swimmers, now in their eighties, Watermarks is the story about a group of young girls with a passion to be the best.

This event is free.
RSVP required
(415) 777-9060 x207 or rsvp@hcnc.org

Co-sponsored by the Israel Center of the Jewish Community Federation and Hadassah.

The 2008 Fall Film and Lecture Series is made possible by a grant from City National Bank.