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25th annual Kristallnacht Program, Thursday, November 10


The Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Project will screen the film Finding Kalman and facilitate a discussion with the filmmakers at our 25th annual Kristallnacht program, 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 10 in the Warshof Conference Center, R. Thomas Flynn Campus Center (Monroe A/B). The event is free and open to the public. Tickets are required and available at <http://www.monroecctickets.com>.

Following the film screening, filmmakers Roz Jacobs, painter, and Laurie Weisman, executive director of The Memory Project Productions, will discuss how film brings together history, biography and the power of art as a family grapples with the loss of a loved one during the Holocaust.

Kristallnacht or “Night of Broken Glass”
In November 1938, mass frenzy broke out in Austria and Germany. Synagogues were destroyed and burned, Jewish people were assaulted, and Jewish-owned stores were shattered and looted. This was the first time that riots against the Jews, accompanied by mass detention, had been organized on such an extensive scale. Kristallnacht was the Nazis' first experience of large-scale, anti-Jewish violence. It opened the way for the eradication of the Jews' position in Germany (source: Yad Vashem).

The Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Project was established in 1991 as MCC’s unique organization for telling the stories of the Holocaust and other genocides while transforming individuals to become advocates for human rights.

Daniella Insalaco
Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Project
11/03/2016