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WOULD YOU HIDE THEM? FORMER WILMETTE RESIDENT BETH LANE TELLS THE REMARKABLE STORY OF HOW HER MOTHER AND SIX AUNTS AND UNCLES ESCAPED NAZI GERMANY TO START A NEW LIFE IN AMERICA. BY MITCH HURST THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND

The scene unfolds around a dining room table at a family gathering in Hoffman Estates in 2019. Beth Lane is surveying the room, asking her aunts, uncles, siblings, cousins, nieces, and nephews to tally the size of their immediate family. Estimates are offered, most ranging between the 20s and the 40s. Then Lane reaches for a collection of Post-it Notes, each representing a family member, and then informally addresses the room. “I premise this by saying that if Paula and Arthur Schmidt had not done what they did, the people in my hand wouldn’t be here,” says the former Wilmette resident and graduate of New Trier Township High School. One-by-one, Lane puts each Post-it Note on the table. In total, there are 72. Seventytwo lives. The scene is included in what will be a feature-length documentary titled Would You Hide Me? that Lane is directing about the remarkable survival of the seven Weber children who escaped Nazi Germany and migrated to America in 1946. The youngest of those children is Lane’s mother, Ginger. The story of the seven Weber children who journeyed to America from Germany was first told in an article in The New York Times when they arrived. But there was, and continues to be, much, much more to the saga. The Times noted that it had been the largest group of children to come to Ellis Island unaccompanied by adults, and once processed, they would be fostered in homes in Chicago. What the Times article did not mention was that two Christian farmers, Paula and Arthur Schmidt, had hidden all seven children in their home in Germany for two years. When production first started on her film, Lane titled it Worin, after the town where

her mother and siblings were hidden by the Schmidts. She changed the name to Would You Hide Me? to capture the moral conundrum the Schmidts faced and to challenge viewers to consider the question in our current cultural and political context. “The real question that we’re asking isn't so much about whether someone would hide me, but would I ever have the courage or bravery to hide someone?” Lane says. “What’s intriguing to me is that there's a spectrum about how far you'll go to protect anything—your reputation or another human being. I think that's a fascinating way to pose the question.” Lane’s family story has made her somewhat of an accidental filmmaker. Born in Lakeview and raised in Wilmette, she grew

up interested in dance and theater. Her mother is a former ballet instructor and ran a dance studio in their garage in Wilmette while Lane was young. She participated in theater productions throughout her middle school and high school years, including the Continued on PG 10

Former Wilmette resident Beth Lane (shown above) has made a documentary about her family's escape from Nazi Germany. Her mother and siblings (shown below) are shown at a children's center before emigrating to the U.S. PHOTOGRAPHY BY CHAD BATKA

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Joyce and Byrne Piven Young People’s Theater in Evanston. “Even at the age of 6, I was already dancing a lot. It was all from my mother, the dancer, and so my love of the arts definitely came through my mother,” she says. “My dad was a lawyer, but he sang in the bar show every year and he sang in the choir at synagogue.” Lane says her mother likely got her affinity for the arts from her adoptive parents, who were well-established in Chicago and had the resources to give her mother a well-rounded upbringing. “My grandfather was Chief of Neurosurgery at Michael Reese hospital, but he was there with his top hat and tux at the opera. My grandparents just had fun,” Lane says. “My grandmother was a painter and sculptor and wore outfits that were on the cover of fashion magazines. It was very theatrical and being an artist in my family was something that was just so normal.” After graduating from New Trier, Lane went to Syracuse University to study musical theater, but upstate New York wasn’t to her liking and she eventually finished her undergraduate degree in English from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She moved to New York and worked with William Esper, the notable acting teacher to many performers, including Larry David, Jeff Goldblum, and Kathy Bates. From there, she landed roles in theater productions throughout

the country. She is an actor, comedian, and jazz singer, not to mention wife and mom to three boys. It wasn’t until she moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and took an audition

says. “So, I go to UCLA thinking the whole time that when I come out of there, I'm going to be a professor.” But in between her second and third year of the program, Lane’s Uncle Alfonse passed away. A physicist, he Paula and Arthur Schmidt hid the Weber children for two years on their fruit farm in Worin. had been the only one of the seven siblings for the MFA Program at UCLA that the idea interested in researching their past in Germany. of filming a documentary about her mother and “He had traveled around the world presentsiblings began to take shape. She applied to the ing research papers and had worked for the program with the goal of eventually teaching government in Washington, D.C., “Lane says. and was accepted. It was back to school in her “He was a highly intellectual man who was ac50s. customed to doing research.” “They offered me a place in a class with eight Before his death, Lane’s Uncle Alfonse had students, all in their 20s. It was perfect,” Lane travelled to Worin in Germany to meet with

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the town historian in an effort to reconstruct the experiences of he and his siblings with the Schmidts. The trips to Worin were primarily to gather evidence for an application on behalf of the Schmidts to Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem, which awards the “Righteous Among the Nations” to non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews from extermination by the Nazis. The Schmidts were honored with the award in 2018, which is when Lane began principal photography for her film. Lane is, in a way, finishing what her Uncle Alfonse started. His vision of uncovering the past has become her vision of telling how her mother’s, and her mother’s siblings’ future unfolded in America. It’s a rich tapestry of connections lost and found. On Thursday evening, Lane hosted a private screening of her unfinished work for family and donors at the Logan Theater in Chicago and to mark the 75th Anniversary of the Webers emigrating to America and Chicago. Three of the seven siblings are gone now. In a time when Holocaust survivors are in the sunset of their lives, Lane feels it is incumbent upon her to continue the work of Holocaust awareness and to “never forget.” “Would You Hide Me?” is currently in post-production. For more information or to donate, visit wouldyouhideme.com.

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ASPARAGUS SALAD WITH MINT AND LEMON Nothing says Spring more brightly than fresh asparagus. And giving the vegetable exotic flair, the flavors in this salad add even more vibrancy. The recipe inspiration is all Yotam Ottolenghi, London’s famed chef, who creates amazing vegetarian flavors. My riff on one of his asparagus creations uses black lemon—dried lemons that you whir into a pungent powder—in a phenomenal dressing with cardamom, mint, jalapeno, and tamarind. Black lemon and the other spices are all easily available in the shops along Devon Avenue, often dubbed Chicago’s Little India.

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INGREDIENTS FOR THE DRESSING: • 1-½ cups fresh mint leaves, divided (You will use 1-¼ cups mint in the dressing and ¼ cup in composed salad) • 1 Tbsp rice vinegar • 1 Tbsp honey • 1 Tbsp tamarind puree • 1 anchovy fillet • 1 tsp ground cardamom seeds • 1 black lemon (Smash dried black lemon with mortar and pestle; transfer to a spice grinder and pulse into a powder) • 1 large jalapeno pepper, seeds removed, diced to make three Tbsp. •1 clove fresh garlic

METHOD • 1 tsp. Dijon mustard • 1 tsp. fresh lemon zest (You will use half of the fresh lemon for the salad) • Pinch of salt FOR THE ASPARAGUS SALAD: • 1 large bunch fat asparagus, woody bottom portion of stems discarded • 3 Tbsp olive oil, divided • Juice from ½ fresh lemon, divided • 2 tsp diced preserved lemon (optional) • ¼ cup of the reserved mint leaves, chopped • ¼ cup pistachio nuts, roughly chopped • Salt to taste

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GATHER INGREDIENTS FOR DRESSING. Smash the dried black lemon with a mortar and pestle to break it up; transfer to a spice mill and pulse into powder. Place lemon powder along with 1-¼ cups of the mint leaves, vinegar, honey, tamarind puree, anchovy fillet, cardamom, jalapeno, garlic, Dijon and lemon zest into a food processor. Pulse until smooth. Add a bit of salt to taste. Place in a small jar and refrigerate. (Unused dressing will keep for two weeks.) MAKE SALAD. With a mandolin slicer at thinnest setting and using great caution (they are very sharp!) push a spear of asparagus lengthwise through the slicer,

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Had you been near Watts Park’s Bronco Field in Glencoe and closed your eyes earlier this month, you would’ve sworn you had stumbled upon a fireworks show. Intermittent waves of “oohs” and “aahs” from youngsters and adults filled the air, some even drowning out dog barks.

Colleen Meyers, bundled up and sitting in a bank of bleachers behind home plate. “It’s great for the community. Everywhere I look I see camaraderie. My son (Trey) is at his happiest when he’s on a baseball field. “And a mother is happy,” she added on Mother’s Day Eve, “whenever her children are happy.” Trey Meyers, a U14 derby participant and a 6-foot-3 eighth-grader at Sacred Heart School in Winnetka, gave his mother 16 reasons to beam on May 8. That was the number of home runs he had amassed in the U14 finals to capture the title in his age

group. Mason Bloom—who had connected for a U14-best 14 dingers in Round 1—finished with a runner-up total of 11 in the finals. Jack Vergamini took third place, with eight roundtrippers. In one impressive stretch Meyers mashed four consecutive homers—Ping! Ping! Ping! Ping! off his aluminum bat—during his final display of power. “I like the pitches high and outside,” said Meyers, who played in a basketball game in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, on the morning before the derby and returned to the village

Derby. “You have to find your groove in a competition like this. I found that, for a little bit, in the final round. But I’m surprised I won. “I’ll never forget this day.” Narrol also competes for the Kenilworth Winnetka Baseball Association (KWBA) 12U travel team. “All baseball organizations on the North Shore work together and have great relationships with each other,” said a grateful Renee Narrol, Will’s mother and the GBA board member who served enthusiastically as the chief organizer of the Jr. Home Run Derby from the first pitch until the final swing. Music blared as each uniformed ballplayer attempted to go yard as often as possible. Fine work from PA announcer and New Trier Township High School senior Chase Avery also added to the festival atmosphere of the

Spectators take in the action at the Jr. Home Run Derby at Watts Park’s Bronco Field in Glencoe earlier this month. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JAMES GUSTIN

north of the border for two more hoops games after receiving his firstplace prizes (framed certificate and a mini bat) in Glencoe. “My approach,” Meyers added, “was to sit back and drive my hips with each swing. Good time; I had Ethan Killion, a 12U finalist in the Jr. Home Run fun.” Derby staged in Glencoe earlier this month, Will Narrol, meanwhile, had to shows excellent concentration and form as the deal with bouts of nervousness and sweet spot of his bat hammers a baseball. a brisk wind—blowing in—while Killion would finish runner-up in his age battling in Round 1 of the U12 group. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JAMES GUSTIN segment. How tough was the wind in the early portion of the event? But it was May 8, not July 4, and home Only one of the 20 U12 entrants runs—blasted by 12U and 14U baseball playmanaged to hit a homer before the ers—generated those resounding reactions finals. from a knot of spectators on a chilly afternoon. Narrol, a 5-foot-9 sixth-grader at The Glencoe Baseball Association (GBA) Central School in Glencoe, struck it. hosted a Jr. Home Run Derby, featuring 20 He then ripped five homers in the 12U batters and 12 14U sluggers. Contestants finals, including three that reached had to either reside in Glencoe or play on a the tennis courts beyond Bronco GBA House League team in order to vie for Field, to take top honors in U12 Home Run King status. In Round 1 for both ahead of fellow finalists Ethan Kilage-group divisions, each participant had two lion and Graham Howard. minutes to launch homers over a fence located “I was nervous, really nervous,” approximately 200 feet from home plate. admitted the humble Narrol, who Pitches were delivered by a machine on the had tripled for his GBA team, mound. Eventual 14U champion Trey Meyers launches another “This is a fabulous opportunity to watch big fly in the Jr. Home Run Derby in Glencoe earlier this Hometown Hitters, in a 5-3 victory on the morning of Jr. Home Run these kids compete in a sport they love,” said month. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JAMES GUSTIN

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Jr. Home Run Derby 12U champion Will Narrol, a sixth-grader at Central School in Glencoe, topped a field of 24 at an event hosted by the Glencoe Baseball Association on May 8. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JAMES GUSTIN

derby. Avery, who plans to study broadcast journalism at Syracuse University, announced to the spectators some of the answers to the questionnaire filled out by each hitter. “(U12 entrant) Grayson Goldberg was born in Hong Kong and his favorite professional player is (former Chicago Cub and current Washington National) Kyle Schwarber,” Avery told the crowd as Goldberg planted his cleats in the batter’s box dirt and prepared to take the first of his warm-up cuts. “Grayson doesn’t like ice cream. His response to, ‘What’s your favorite flavor of ice cream?’ is, ‘Where’s the chocolate cake?’ ” Two batters later, Killion—another member of GBA’s Hometown Hitters—stood in the box wielded a bat, ready to hurt baseball after baseball after baseball. “Ethan,” Avery announced, “hopes to major in aviation at Purdue University.” A pitched ball flew off Killion’s bat shortly thereafter. THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND

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Victoria Fuller was 5 years old when she and a boy were playing on a hillside in Pennsylvania and got stung by bees. The young humans survived. The bees did not. “I was worried about the bees,” Fuller recalls. “I was hopeful that they’d go to heaven, so I drew bees as angels and then added halos.” Victoria’s late father, photographer C.J. “Tom” Fuller, saw his daughter’s artwork and chose it to double as the family’s Christmas card that year. Decades later, Victoria Fuller—a painter, sculptor, natural science illustrator, and curator, living in the Chicago neighborhood of Bucktown—is concerned about species on the brink of extinction. The last male northern white rhino, named Sudan, died in Kenya in 2018 at age 45. Only two females of the subspecies remain: Najin and Fatu. Her inflatable sculpture of a northern white rhino, along with her “Many Suns” in radiating sphere form, can be viewed at The Art Center Highland Park (TAC) exhibition “Ephemera: The Power of Impermanence” through June 12. Fuller, in her TAC debut, is a featured artist and a guest juror. The rhino sculpture inflates and deflates in a three-minute sequence, “showing its glory and decline,” Fuller says. “It’ll make you cry,” she adds. It continues to pain and confound Fuller that animals become extinct largely because of poaching and other cruel human activities. “My work focuses on systems of man and nature and the impact of that nexus, revealing the phenomenon of life and the science behind it,” says Fuller, who was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, grew up on Willow Brook, the family farm near Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, and attended The Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, New York. “My figurative representations of nature coexist beside object-based artwork, with the two separate bodies of work intended as complementary rather than competitive.” Fuller’s striking sculpture “Shoe of Shoes” marvels onlookers in Clayton, Missouri. Created in 1999 and a part of the Pier Walk exhibition in Chicago that same year, it’s more than a

large high-heeled woman’s shoe in front of the Brown Shoe office building; it was made from about 2,000 cast aluminum shoes. “It represents the collective pain of women who wear heels for beauty,” Fuller says. “I like my art to be fun, whimsical.”

My parents encouraged my interest in art. I also remember entering an Easter egg contest and adding legs to the eggs so that they’d look like frogs. After that I made a portrait of a student sitting across from me in class; it looked just like her.

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Her large-scale public sculpture “Global Garden Shovel” was commissioned by Sound Transit and installed in the city of Seattle at Columbia City Station in 2010. It stands 35 feet and could easily pass for a spade in Paul Bunyan’s airplane-hangar-sized toolshed. “I’d researched the Seattle area, including Rainier Valley, and discovered everyone there is into gardening,” Fuller says. “Everywhere I looked I saw a gorgeous garden. Much of the sculpture’s design depicts plants from all over the world. The variety of the plants featured on the shovel represents the ethnic diversity of the area.” The Michigan city of Ann Arbor purchased Fuller’s massive “Canoe Fan” sculpture in 2019 and kept it mounted along the Huron River in Gallup Park. Imagine nine large canoes forming the shape of a hand fan. “Or a peacock spreading its feathers,” Fuller says. Fuller’s early art influences were her father and mother, Alexandra, who minored in art at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. C.T. Fuller’s photographs appeared on the covers of The Quarter Horse Journal, and his appealing ads ran on the back of the

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magazine. In 2001 he was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame. “My parents encouraged my interest in art,” says Fuller, who moved to Chicago in 1992 and earned a graduate degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. “I also remember entering an Easter egg contest and adding legs to the eggs so that they’d look like frogs. After that I made a portrait of a student sitting across from me in class; it looked just like her. “I thought, ‘OK, maybe I’m good at this.’” The late French American painter, sculptor, and writer Marcel Duchamp emerged as one of Fuller’s major inspirations. His work is associated with Cubism, Dadaism, and conceptual art. Fuller received fellowship awards from the Illinois Arts Council and from the Colorado Council for the Arts and Humanities. She completed artist residencies at Lake Forestbased Ragdale Foundation and at Sculpture Space. The recipient of the 2020 Dean Alan Olson Purchase Award at the Rockford Art Museum and Best of Show honors at the 2021 Evanston and Vicinity Biennial, Fuller landed the prestigious Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) Independent Artist Project Grant in 2019. Between 300-500 artists had applied for the DCASE grant. “What an honor, to have been chosen,” says the humble Fuller. Compliment her on the brilliance of her work, particularly the involved pieces, and she’ll quickly praise the other hands and minds that made them possible. “It sometimes takes a team of people,” Fuller insists. “For ‘Canoe Fan,’ I couldn’t have created that alone; I needed help. I relied on assistants and technical people and aluminum experts.” The other featured artist of the TAC’s exhibition “Ephemera” is Nate Baranowski, also based in Chicago. He’s a street painter, muralist, and fine artist, specializing in creating eye-popping 3D artwork. “I’m thrilled,” Fuller says, “that I was asked to be a featured artist, as well as a guest juror, at a center that offers classes to the community and engenders and promotes creativity. It’s a powerful exhibition, with powerful messages. But it’ll bring joy, too. Many of my suns—you’ll see eight iterations, including one with yellow rubber gloves and another with (resin-cast) octopus arms—are intended to be playful.” Visit victoriafullerart.com for more information. The exhibition “Ephemera: The Power of Impermanence” at The Art Center Highland Park (TAC) runs through June 12. TAC, 847432-1888, is located at 1957 Sheridan Road, Highland Park. THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND

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