Series: Local Heroes
ABOUT THE FILM
In Person: March 30
Virtual: Streaming March 31 – April 13
As a teenager, Carla Peperzak was a part of the Dutch resistance during WWII and helped dozens of fellow Jews by forging ID cards or finding safe havens from the German invaders and their Dutch enablers. When she was growing up in Amsterdam, her family attended the same Reform temple as Anne Frank, and she was friends with Anne’s sister Margot. During the Nazi occupation, Carla lost three-quarters of her extended family even though she fought valiantly to help others survive. Later, working through the horrors and pain she experienced, she found her calling: speaking out, which she continues to this day—at age 101!
In 2004, Carla moved to Spokane, WA, and has been actively engaged in sharing her story as part of Seattle’s Holocaust Center for Humanity’s Speakers Bureau. Her story is told by four generations of women: Carla and her daughter, granddaughter and teenage great-granddaughter, who is the age Carla was during WWII.
Carla shares her first-person account to make a difference in the world today. She reminds us of the critical need to respect one another and inspires us to never remain silent in the face of hate.
Director Bio:
Clement Lye is a first-generation Asian American who grew up in Spokane and studied film at the University of Washington. He spent almost a decade working in the film industry in Los Angeles in various production roles. CARLA THE RESCUER marks his directorial debut.
Guests: Director Clement Lye, Producer Kristine F. Hoover, and Paul V. Regelbrugge of Holocaust Center for Humanity who appears in the film.
Community Sponsors: Holocaust Center for Humanity, Jewish Family Service, Seattle Hadassah, Washington State Jewish Historical Society
