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Sept. 26: IMAGE BEFORE MY EYES
 This 1980 film calls upon photographs, drawings, home movies, music, and interviews with survivors in order to recreate the vibrant Jewish community in Poland from the late nineteenth century up to the time of its destruction during the Holocaust.
Professor Jacqueline Berke, Co-Director of the Center for Holocaust Study, will introduce the series by commenting on the richness and diversity of this pre-Holocaust culture.
Oct. 3: GOOD MORNING, MR. HITLER
In July 1939 an amateur filmmaker photographed a three-day Nazi festival in Munich. Decades later the BBC filmed Munich residents who had participated in this festival as they watched themselves in the original film footage and as they commented on it with delight and amusement.
Dr. Ann Saltzman, Associate Professor of Psychology and Co-Director of the Center for Holocaust Study, will discuss the contrast between their reflections and the reflections of Jewish viewers who recall the time not with lightheartedness but with terror.
Oct. 10: ONE SURVIVOR REMEMBERS
This film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject, 1996. Through a series of interviews, photographs, and footage shot in the actual locations of her memories, Gerda Weissman Klein takes us on a journey of survival through the Holocaust.
Halina Kleiner, a survivor who was Gerda's friend in the camps and on the "death march," will share her story with us.
Oct. 17: CHILDREN OF THE THIRD REICH
In 1993 the BBC filmed a meeting of an extraordinary dialogue group consisting of children of Holocaust survivors and children of perpetrators and bystanders, including the son of the notorious Nazi, Martin Bormann.
U. Ingrid Schirrholz, M.A., a practicing psychotherapist in Morristown and participant in this group, will discuss the dramatic impact of these encounters in terms of both anger and pathos, describing their influence on her life and the lives of other participants in the group.
Oct. 24: SHADOW OF THE CROSS
This 1990 film traces Jewish-Christian relations over the last 2000 years, focusing on the influence of historic Christian anti-semitism on the Third Reich.
The Rev. Dr. Murdoch MacPherson, pastor of Faith Lutheran Church in New Providence, will discuss this history and the dilemma posed by the role of the churches during the war years.
Oct. 31: THE COURAGE TO CARE
This 1986 Oscar Nominee for Best Short Documentary celebrates the few but significant rescuers in the Holocaust, the so-called "ordinary people" who refused to succumb to Nazi tyranny and opted-instead-to risk their lives to save those destined to die.
Special guest speaker, concluding the series, will be the Honorable Thomas H. Kean, President of Drew University and former Governor of New Jersey. |
