German students and their teacher visited Oklahoma City and Tulsa in June 2023 to hear stories and reflections of history from a civil rights leader, a local rabbi, an African American studies scholar, the son of Holocaust survivors and a 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre historian.
The group’s visit is chronicled in the documentary “Echoes of Remembrance,” which will have a free screening at 7 p.m. Thursday at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. The screening will be in the Community Room at Dale Hall Tower, 455 W Lindsey.
Hosted by Karlos K. Hill, Regents’ Professor of the Clara Luper Department of African and African American Studies at OU, the screening is a Schusterman Center for Judaic and Israel Students special event.
In 2023, Hill invited Sabeth Schmidthals and her students at the Theodor-Heuss Community School in Berlin to visit Oklahoma after he visited them in Germany and saw the Holocaust remembrance work being done by the German educator and her pupils.
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