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Thursday, February 27, 2025

Holocaust History on Film: Anne Frank and Beyond

 

Dear friends and colleagues,

In March 2025, the Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme and the Center for Jewish History present Bau, Artist at War and Here Lived: The Stolpersteine Story as part of the film series Holocaust History on Film: Anne Frank and Beyond. 

This series features a carefully curated selection of classic and newly released films followed by discussions with filmmakers, critics, journalists, writers, directors and scholars. The film series is part of the program developed by the Center for Jewish History in conjunction with the Center’s project, Anne Frank in History and Memory. 

Please see below more details about the films, and registrations links for attending the screenings at the Center for Jewish History, at 15 W 16th Street, New York, NY 10011. 

 

Film Screening: Bau, Artist at War

Sunday, 2 March 2025, 3:00 p.m. EST


Center for Jewish History, 15 W 16th Street, New York, NY 10011



Bau, Artist at War is based on the true love story of Joseph and Rebecca Bau, whose wedding took place in secret at the Plaszow concentration camp during the Holocaust. The screening will be followed by a conversation with film director Sean McNamara, writer/producer Deborah Smerecnik and Rebecca and Joseph Bau’s daughters Clila and Hadasa Bau. CEO of B’nai B’rith International, Daniel S. Mariaschin, will moderate.
 

Click here to register  |  Read more

 

Film Screening: Here Lived: The Stolpersteine Story

Monday, 3 March 2025, 7:00 p.m. EST


Center for Jewish History, 15 W 16th Street, New York, NY 10011



Through tracing the story of the Stolpersteine (stumbling stones), Here Lived: The Stolpersteine Story focuses on the generational trauma suffered by families impacted by atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis during the Holocaust. Dr. Gavriel Rosenfeld, President of the Center for Jewish History and Her Excellency Ms. Lise Gregoire-van Haaren, Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the United Nations will deliver remarks. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the film's director and producer, Jane Wells, the General Director of the Jewish Cultural Quarter and Professor of Jewish Book History at the University of Amsterdam, Emile Schrijver and producer Ulrika Citron. Tracey Petersen, Manager of the Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme will moderate.
 

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