Who Will Write Our History

Showings

Michigan Theater - Screening Room Mon, Apr 29, 2019 7:30 PM
Special Community Screening! Presented by the Jewish Community Center of Ann Arbor. Free Admission.
Event Info
Category:Rental Film
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Description

Monday, April 29, 2019 at 7:30 PM. Presented by the Jewish Community Center and the Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor. Special Community Screening, commemorating Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Memorial Day).

Free Admission. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Professor Jeff Veidlinger, Genvieve Zubrzycki and Sarah Raful Whinston.

Who Will Write Our History, based on Samuel Kassow’s book, is about historian Emanuel Ringelblum, who gathered a secret band of journalists, scholars, and artists imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto to collect and record the story of the war from the Jewish point of view. Known by the code name Oyneg Shabes, their goal was to defy their murderous enemy with the ultimate weapon - the truth. They risked everything so that their archive would survive, even if they did not.

Sponsored by
Jewish Community of Greater Ann Arbor, Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor,
U of M Frankel Center for Jewish Studies, Temple Beth Emeth, Hebrew Day School, The Ann Arbor Orthodox Minyan, Beth Israel Congregation, The Copernicus Center for Polish Studies