“A Pocketful of Miracles: The Tale of Two Siblings” will be shown at the Edlavitch DC JCC on July 27th at 7:30 PM. Tickets can be purchased at the link below.
Berlin-born filmmaker Aviva Kempner chronicles her mother Hanka and uncle Dudek Ciesla’s lives before and during World War II. From their idyllic Jewish upbringing in Poland to their tearful reunion after surviving the Holocaust, this moving documentary ends by sharing the incredible lives they built in America as painter Helen Ciesla Covensky and businessperson and philanthropist David Chase.