Nov

18 2018

"Who Will Write Our History": Film for Holocaust Education Month

4:00PM - 6:00PM  

The Council Chambers Room Ben Franklin Place
101 Centrepointe Drive
Nepean , ON K2G 5K7
613-580-2400

Contact Lindsay Gottheil
613-798-4696 ext. 355
lgottheil@jewishottawa.com
http://jewishottawa.com

The Shoah Committee presents the film "Who Will Write our History" in the Council Chambers Room of Ben Franklin Place on the occasion of Holocaust Education Month.

Executive Produced by Nancy Spielberg

Q&A with film participant Professor Jan Grabowski will follow the screening.


In November 1940, 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. Now, for the first time, their story is told as a feature documentary. 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.

To view the trailer: https://vimeo.com/282770262
password: onegshabes

Arrive Early - Limited Seating

 

 

Sponsor: The Shoah Committee of the Jewish Federation of Ottawa