January 13, 2008:
Rescheduled Screening of Unlikely Heroes
Join us for this remarkable documentary and discussion after the screening!
Unlikely Heroes
Narrated by Sir Ben Kingsley
Directed by Richard Trank
Produced by the Simon Wiesenthal Center
As Europe’s Jewish communities were systematically decimated, ordinary
people committed acts of extraordinary heroism. These are
the stories of Jewish resistance, courage and human dignity
in the midst of the horrors of the Holocaust.
- a rabbi's son
disguised as a Major in the SS to save Jews.
- a young woman plotting to blow up the crematorium at
Birkenau.
- a Jew who defied Eichmann, devising a scheme
for 40,000 Jews to get to Palestine.
- an entertainer who
survived the camps singing.
- a woman helping people cross
the border into neutral Switzerland.
- an artist in Theresienstadt,
teaching children art secretly, giving them hope that
there might be a tomorrow
- a partisan blowing up bridges,
cutting down utility poles, derailing trains, killing
Nazis and their collaborators.
Refreshments will be served.
RSVP to: programs@jgsmi.org or 248/496-1324
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