FILM: A Pocketful of Miracles: A Tale of Two Siblings

July 27, 2023, at 7:30 pm

Berlin-born filmmaker Aviva Kempner chronicles her mother Hanka and uncle Dudek Ciesla’s lives before and during World War II. From their idyllic Jewish upbringing in Poland to their tearful reunion after surviving the Holocaust, this moving documentary ends by sharing the incredible lives they built in America as painter Helen Ciesla Covensky and businessperson and philanthropist David Chase.

Screening followed by Q&A with director Aviva Kempner.

Supported by the Chaim Kempner Fund and the Helen and Milton Covensky Fund.