"It is important that people know that Jews have fought,

That Jews have not just been captured and put in camps and killed in camps.

Many Jews have fought in the resistance. Even more important: Jewish women!

That's what my mission is." 

{http://soundcloud.com/soundslikerstin/marthe-cohn-jews-have-fought}

I met Marthe Cohn at the house of the German Consul General in Los Angeles. The 96 year old tiny Jewish woman was telling an almost unbeleivable story of crossing the border at the end of WW II to spy for the French army. I knew I had to meet her again to find out more about her life. So I sat down a few days later with Marthe for more than four hours and still am so grateful she took the time to talk with me.

Just imagine:

KR: "I was born twisted I Don't Want to die. Me and my shadow and it still doesn't help. We all need something even if we don't."

AG: "I was very interested in the light coming from him. I wanted the figure to be the source of light, reverse the idea that the shadow is dark. It became a dance between the two of us."

KR: "It is not as simple as black and white, is it? It all goes by so fast"

{http://soundcloud.com/soundslikerstin/blog_shadows}

Keanu Reeves and Alexandra Grant reading and talking about their new project "Shadows" 

Link to story Deutschlandfunk

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G.B.: "... Artists are the gatekeepers of truth, their civilization's radical voice. They are our moral kompass.

B.B. "...There's a sense that we are in the middle the civil rights movement of this generation. But there is also a lot of inertia. There are a lot of people who are invested in the status quo who want to see things stay the way they have been for so long. ... We now have access to storytelling tools that five years ago did not exist ... so I feel it's part of our responsibility, to use those tools to take it to another level."

Gina Belafonte and Bryonn Bain talking with soundslikerstin about their production of Lyrics From Lockdown

{http://soundcloud.com/soundslikerstin/the-power-of-art-and-activism}

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"It was one of those things - 
A little spark!
What can you do?
It's LOVE!
You learn how you can get over obstacles and
You grow stronger together than you would on your own."

{http://soundcloud.com/soundslikerstin/what-can-you-do-its-love}

Gabi and Mark Hayes, filmmakers from Los Angeles, in an interview with soundslikerstin

Listen to the whole Iron Curtain love story at KCRW

In German  "Liebe zwischen Texas und Thüringen" at DRadio Wissen

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At 2:30 in the morning our door bell rang.
A distressed 18 year young woman stood shivering on the front porch.
Tiny T-Shirt, skinny jeans, no socks in her boots. Tipsy.

She had lost her friends, phone and wallet. 

"Why did you chose this house?"
"It looked so warm"

She called her grandma and huddled in a blanket.
Before tea water was boiling her father ran up to the door.
Pale, his jacket open over a T-shirt and jogging pants.
Angry. Relieved.

While she was stumbling towards him she looked back at us.

"I want to be like you. From now on I am going to be as friendly as you two!"

I like that. A lot.

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