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International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Films and events marking the International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Schindler’s List

Dir.: Steven Spielberg
| 196 minutes

The story of Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved one thousand Jews during WWII. Schindler’s List is a pivotal work in cinema. A new digital restoration that is now emerging worldwide to mark the 25th anniversary of the film’s release.

Hitler's Hollywood

Dir.: Rüdiger Suchsland
| 105 minutes

Based on archival footage from German films produced between 1933-1945, this documentary debates the entertainment industry’s submission to Nazi demands and ponders its double role as a propaganda mouthpiece and escapist space.

Phoenix

Dir.: Christian Petzold
| 98 minutes

A Holocaust survivor with a disfigured face returns to Berlin. When she finds her husband, he does not recognize her but suggests she help him claim his “dead” wife’s inheritance. Christian Petzold collaborates with actress Nina Hoss to create a powerfully poignant film.

Who Will Write Our History

Dir.: Roberta Grossman
| 90 minutes

The untold story of a resistance group in the Warsaw Ghetto who risked their lives so that the truth would survive even if they did not. Led by historian Emanuel Ringelblum, this clandestine organization established the Oneg Shabbat Archives and buried hundreds of thousands of eye-witness accounts and recordings. 

Following the screening, a conversation with director Willy Lindwer

The Train Journey

Dir.: Willy Lindwer
| 60 minutes

The recently discovered and unknown Dutch Holocaust story of a miraculous escape of 89 Hungarian-Dutch Jews during the Nazi-occupation of the Netherlands. They were able to rescue themselves by five train journeys that brought them in the middle of the war from Amsterdam to Budapest. 

Following the screening, a conversation with director Piotr Szalsza. Moderated by: Ilona Cousin

Julius Madritsch from Vienna – A Righteous among the Nations

Dir.: Piotr Szalsza
| 72 minutes

From 1940 to 1944, Julius Madritsch from Vienna was the director of textile companies in occupied Poland, in which he employed thousands of Jews. With the help of his Austrian fellow colleagues, he saved the life of hundreds of people.