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Film Screening: "KZ" followed by Discussion with Holocaust Survivor Simon Braitman


The Holocaust Genocide Studies Project will present the film "KZ" on Tuesday, October 7 at 6 pm in the Flynn Campus Center Forum (3-130). The film screening will be followed by a discussion with Holocaust Survivor Simon Braitman. Mr. Braitman survived the Mauthausen concentration camp during World War II. He serves on the Holocaust Genocide Studies Project Advisory Board and the MCC Foundation's Foundation Council.

Please plan to join us for this powerful presentation. The event is open to the public and free of charge.

Below is a review of the film by the BBC:
"KZ is a powerful documentary looking at modern-day Mauthausen, a seemingly idyllic picture postcard town in Austria. Yet the town has a chilling history, being the site of one of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps during World War II. The concentration camp has now become a tourist attraction, attracting thousands of visitors every year.

"Documentarist Rex Bloomstein has dedicated most of his filmmaking career to studying the Holocaust. In KZ, however, he approaches the subject from a different angle: there is no archive footage, no interviews with Survivors, no recreation of the camp's horrific past. Instead he presents camp life today and looks at how the town's inhabitants deal with the death camp on their doorstep and in their past."

    Melynda Apton
    Holocaust Genocide Studies Project
    10/03/2008