The sixth edition of the Holocaust Memory Film Days, bringing together an Oscar-winning artistic production, an animation and international documentaries, highlights testimonies about the extermination of Jews during the Second World War in Europe and its impact on subsequent generations, event taking place from Friday to Sunday at the Peasant Museum Cinema.
According to a press release sent on Wednesday to AGERPRES, the event is organised by the Elie Wiesel Institute in collaboration with the Goethe Institute in Bucharest and the National Museum of the Romanian Peasant, in the context of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the commemoration of 85 years since the Bucharest Pogrom.
The event will begin on Friday at 18:30 with a welcome message from the organisers, followed by the premiere of the film 'The Commandant's Shadow,' a Warner Bros Pictures and HBO Documentary Films production directed by Daniela Volker.
'The documentary presents the impact on generations from different perspectives: that of Hans Jurgen Hoss, the 87-year-old son of Rudolf Hoss, former commandant of the Auschwitz camp who orchestrated the killing of over one million Jews, and that of Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, daughter and Auschwitz camp survivor. While Hans Jurgen Hoss enjoyed a happy childhood in the family villa at Auschwitz, the Jewish prisoner Anita Lasker-Wallfisch struggled to survive the terror of the concentration camp,' the quoted source says.
On Saturday, from 15:00, young audiences are invited to the screening of the animation 'Survivor,' a Lemon Soul production, directed by Zoom Rockman. The film is an adaptation of the testimony of Ivor Perl Bem, recounting his journey to Auschwitz at the age of 12 and his struggle to survive in the camp.
The production team, director Zoom Rockman, screenwriter Kate Lenard and producer Nigel Canin, will be present in the auditorium to share their experience of promoting the memory of Holocaust victims through cinematic art.
'Against All Odds: Surviving the Holocaust' closes the second day of the programme dedicated to Holocaust films. This documentary brings to the fore the life stories of four Holocaust survivors from Germany, Austria and Poland: Gerald Beigel, Ryszarda Rozenblum, Walter Lebensohn and Anita Karl. Their direct and moving testimonies lead the viewer into the world of an experience lived during the Second World War.
Sunday, a day dedicated to Oscar-winning productions, includes from 16:00 'The Last Days,' directed by James Moll and produced by Steven Spielberg. The film follows the compelling experiences of five survivors from Hungary deported to Auschwitz as they return from the United States to their home towns and to the ghettos and concentration camps where they were once imprisoned.
'The Last Days' draws the general public's attention to one of the darkest chapters of history, seen through the eyes of survivors and witnesses. The documentary is a powerful portrayal of personal strength and courage and proof of the power of the human spirit,' the organisers said.
The Holocaust Memory Film Days conclude with an IDA artistic production directed by Pawel Pawlikowski, a film that once again focuses on the relationship with the past from the perspective of the generations that followed those who were victims of the Holocaust.
Tickets can be booked on eventbook.ro.
The Holocaust Memory Film Days is a cultural project initiated in 2015 by the 'Elie Wiesel' National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania.
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