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Holocaust Survivor Reflects on Shanghai Ghetto Film


MCC faculty, staff and students are invited to attend the upcoming film viewing hosted by the Holocaust Genocide Studies Project:

Shanghai Ghetto
featuring special guest Kurt Weinbach, a Holocaust survivor who was in Shanghai during World War II
Monday evening, Dec. 6
6:00 pm
Warshof Conference Center, (Monroe A& B), R. Thomas Flynn Campus Center
Free and open to the public

Documentary filmmakers Dana Janklowicz-Mann and Amir Mann (2002) tell the unforgettable story of Jewish refuges who escaped the Holocaust in Europe and made a home 8,000 miles away in the city of Shanghai.

How will this presentation benefit you and your students?
* Experience documentary footage from the Shanghai Ghetto—a place that remains virtually unchanged since World War II.
* Complement your teaching by exploring how people escaped the Holocaust and began a new life in Shanghai.
* Encourage your students to examine their own consciences and be critical thinkers.
* Provide an opportunity for additional learning and credit within your course.

Light refreshements will be served. Please call Linda Ingraham, Liberal Arts, at x3321 for more information.

Rosanna Condello
Public Affairs
12/03/2004