Reflections On The Holocaust
Films on upbringing during the Holocaust
Sunday, April 14 @ 5 pm
Location: Jessie Ball duPont Center - Lecture Hall
Block will conclude with a Q&A with some of the filmmakers after the screening!
SHOAH Bernard Ores
France - Director: Baptiste Drapeau
During WWII, in the ghetto of Przemysl, in Poland, Bernard and two comrades hide in a bunker dug under the roadway to escape deportation.
Nina & Irena
US - Director: Daniel Lombroso
On the verge of her 90th birthday, a grandmother reveals to her grandson the painful story of her sister's disappearance during the Holocaust.
Broken Dolls - Reparation from the Holocaust
Jacksonville, FL, US - Directors: Tracy Whipple & Gilles Bovon
In 1939 a young Jewish girl escapes Nazi Germany, due to the tenacity of her mother, on a ship bound for Shanghai. They make it to the Jewish Ghetto, and the young girl begins her journey toward ‘losing Jewishness’. Eighty years later, with the help of her daughter, she fights to reinstate her lost German citizenship and hopes to complete a trip to the country that tried to eliminate her. A journey revealing deeply buried family secrets.