"The Erasmus EuroMedia jury therefore honors Bernhard Hetzenauer's film AND THERE WAS FIRE IN THE CENTER OF THE EARTH with a special prize in the category "comprehensive historical analysis." Born in 1912 in Prague, Vera Kohn escaped Czechoslovakia a few months after Nazi Germany had invaded her country. In 1939 she made her way with her family to Ecuador where many Jews found refuge. Here she began a new life. After a career as a leading actress in Quito, she traveled to Europe to undergo psychotherapy with German Gestalt psychotherapist Karlfried Dürckheim. After three years of studying Dürckheim's "Initiation Therapy" Vera returned to Ecuador, where for many years she was a practicing psychologist and teacher of Zen Buddhism.
How a Holocaust survivor and Dürckheim student became a pioneer of Zen Buddhism in Ecuador.
"The Erasmus EuroMedia jury therefore honors Bernhard Hetzenauer's film AND THERE WAS FIRE IN THE CENTER OF THE EARTH with a special prize in the category "comprehensive historical analysis."
Born in 1912 in Prague, Vera Kohn escaped Czechoslovakia a few months after Nazi Germany had invaded her country. In 1939 she made her way with her family to Ecuador where many Jews found refuge. Here she began a new life.
After a career as a leading actress in Quito, she traveled to Europe to undergo psychotherapy with German Gestalt psychotherapist Karlfried Dürckheim. After three years of studying Dürckheim's "Initiation Therapy" Vera returned to Ecuador, where for many years she was a practicing psychologist and teacher of Zen Buddhism.