An Evening with Gary Reiner
Tuesday, November 10, 2020 • 23 Cheshvan 5781
7:00 PM - 8:30 PMZoomGary Reiner, co-author of Counting on America, will be our guest Zoom speaker. This event is sponsored by The Women’s Club and The Brotherhood of HSOSC.
Mr. Reiner promised his father Kurt that he would get his father's story published. Gary will do a presentation of his parents' story, including the background of what was happening in Austria and their escape path across Europe to the United States.
Counting on America is based on Kurt Reiner’s autobiography, highlighting how he and his wife, Hennie, managed to flee Vienna, Austria following the March 12, 1938 Anschluss (German annexation of Austria). Recurrent stops at Dachau and a forced-labor farm, followed by internment in a French prison camp, delay the escape of the fugitive twosome. The story captures the obstacles that Jewish refugees faced attempting to emigrate out of Europe during the Holocaust. Although Kurt Reiner died in 1985, his experience is captured and kept alive in Kurt’s first-person voice by his co-author son, Gary Reiner. The account is enhanced by the incorporation of dozens of original source documents that corroborate the description of events.
Counting on America is a true story that provides profound evidence that a combination of luck, love, perseverance, and divine intervention was the requisite formula for survival during the Holocaust. The couple’s steadfast commitment to reach the shores of the United States is a powerful endorsement of America’s importance to refugees fleeing despot nations.
Meeting ID: 868 7190 5523
Passcode: HSOSC
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