Tag: Carla Peperzak

Gonzaga University’s Women Lead initiative will host a community event July 31 featuring a social hour and a screening of “Carla the Rescuer,” a documentary about WWII resistance member Carla Peperzak.

One of only 21 Anne Frank tree saplings in the United States was dedicated at the Carla Peperzak Middle School in Spokane on Saturday (June 21) afternoon.

Holocaust observance draws hundreds, Spokan libraries honor national Arab American Heritage Month, Seattle police accused of using alleged excessive force against two Black Muslim women and more in this week's FāVS Religion News Roundup.

Learn all about the line-up for this year's 21st annual Spokane Jewish Film Festival, especially the special documentary feature of Spokane Holocaust survivor Carla Peperzak in "Carla the Rescuer."

When we grow up, we want to be like Carla Peperzak. That was how my wife and I felt after our three-hour lunch and visit with Peperzak in her home at Rockwood Retirement Communities. At 99 years old, she is mentally and physically much younger. Her passion for teaching children about the horrors of the Holocaust is keen and always eager.

Holocaust survivor and Spokane resident Carla Peperzak will join several Gonzaga University historians and representatives of Seattle’s Holocaust Center for Humanity to present “Remembering Our Past to Inform Our Future” tonight from 7-8:30 p.m. in the Hemmingson Ballroom.

The memoir was written for her descendants—the children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren she would never have had if the Nazis found out she was Jewish or if they found out she was helping Jews hide after they invaded her country on May 10, 1940.