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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

FILM DEPICTS ROUNDUP OF JEWS IN PARIS IN JULY 1942

imageIf you saw the film (or read the book) Sarah’s Key and are curious about what really happened to the French Jews rounded up in Paris, you might want to see this movie:

 

Real to Reel film presentation: 

imageLa Rafle (The Round Up)
WHEN: Wednesday, Jan. 18, at 7 PM
WHERE:
Alex Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, 901 Route 10 East, Whippany
973.929.3194
holocaustcouncil@ujcnj.org
ADMISSION: Free Admission — All are welcome
Light refreshments will be served

From writer-director Rose Bosch comes LA RAFLE (THE ROUNDUP), a film that tells the story of July 1942, when more than 13,000 Parisian Jews, including  more than 4,000 children, were rounded up and taken to the now notorious Vel' d'Hiv stadium by French police who were Nazi accomplices.  A discussion of the film will follow the screening.

(115 min., French, German and Yiddish with English subtitles, 2010)