To mark Kristallnacht Commemoration, Kaplen JCC on the Palisades Presents Film Screening of
NICKY’S FAMILY
with Eva Holzer, a Kindertransport Survivor
WHEN: Wednesday, November 6, 7:30 PM
WHERE: Kaplen JCC Eric Brown Theater, 411 E. Clinton Ave., Tenafly
TICKETS: $10 JCC members/ $12 general admission
The JCC will mark this important annual commemoration with a film screening of Nicky’s Family, which tells the nearly forgotten story of Nicholas Winton, an Englishman knighted by the Queen Elisabeth and dubbed “Britain’s Schindler.” Winton organized the rescue of 669 Czech and Slovak children just before the outbreak of World War II through a masterminded series of rail-sea transports. Winton, now 104 years old, did not speak about these events with anyone for more than half a century, and his heroic rescues would undoubtedly been forgotten if his wife, fifty years later, hadn’t found a suitcase in the attic, full of documents and transport plans.
The film is narrated by the rescued children and Sir Winton himself, and has earned rave reviews from around the world, winning over 30 awards. Eva Holzer, a long standing member of our community and a Kindertransport survivor, will speak after the film.
Winton's story is a very powerful one, and thousands of children in many countries have followed in his footsteps, looking to do something important and positive for our world. More than 120,000 children in the Czech Republic signed a petition to award Nicholas Winton the Nobel Prize for Peace. Dozens of the children he saved have been found and have grown up to be academics, members of parliament, scientists and artists.
Producers Matej Minac and Patrik Pass set out to ensure that these fascinating, little-known stories and precious facts about this important mission are not lost to time, and in presenting the film, the JCC hopes to communicate an important message about the sacred quality of life, how fragile it is, and how one person can show us the “larger consequences of what we thought were small achievements.”
The evening will begin with a film short, entitled Generations of the Shoah, written and directed by JCC teen members Ben, Adam and Daniel Danzger, who produced the film as their way of passing the torch so stories such as those in Nicky’s Family will never be forgotten. The film documents the story of Regina Sznajderman and Abraham Tauber , who knew each other as young children in Poland. World War II and the Nazi invasion sent them on separate journeys, filled with arduous trials and tribulations. At the end of the war, Regina and Abraham were reunited and married. They moved to the United States, built a family, a business, and a new life.
For more information, call Jessica Wolf Spiegel, 201.408.1426. The evening is sponsored by The Richard H. Holzer Memorial Foundation and presented by The Martin Perlman & Jo-Ann Hassan Holocaust Education Institute
