May

5 2019

Film & Candle Lighting - Holocaust Remembrance Day

2:00PM - 4:00PM  

The Berkshire Museum 39 South Street
Pittsfield, MA
413-443-7171

Contact Jewish Federation of the Berkshires
413-442-4360 x10
federation@jewishberkshires.org
http://www.jewishberkshires.org

Who Will Write our History? Film & Candle lighting -Holocaust Remembrance

They defied their enemy with the ultimate weapon - the truth!

Days after the Nazis sealed 450,000 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, a secret band of journalists, scholars and community leaders decided to fight back. Led by historian Emanuel Ringelblum and known by the code name Oyneg Shabes, this clandestine group vowed to defeat Nazi lies and propaganda not with guns or fists but with pen and paper.

Written, produced and directed by Roberta Grossman and executive produced by Nancy Spielberg, Who Will Write Our History mixes the writings of the Oyneg Shabes archive with new interviews, rarely seen footage and stunning dramatizations to transport us inside the Ghetto and the lives of these courageous resistance fighters. They defied their murderous enemy with the ultimate weapon – the truth – and risked everything so that their archive would survive the war, even if they did not.

AFTER THE FILM: Join us for a candle lighting, prayers and a moment of silence in memory of those murdered in the Holocaust.

FREE and open to the public