Films on the Holocaust
April 11, 12, 13, 6:45 PM
West Lafayette Public Library
Films with a Holocaust theme will be shown each night.
"There are two kinds of people: good and bad. Nationality, race, and religion do not play any role; what is important is which human you are." -- Irena Sendler
Remembrance
Monday, April 11th, 6:45 PM
Jointly sponsored with Walla
Die Verlorene Zeit (Remembrance) depicts a remarkable love story that blossomed amidst the terror of a German concentration camp in 1944 Poland. This impossible passion fuels the courage of a Polish prisoner who manages to rescue his Jewish girlfriend. Against all odds, they escape the camp and survive a treacherous journey to freedom. But during the chaos of the end of the war, they are forcibly separated and each is convinced that the other has died. More than thirty years later in New York, the happily married 52-year-old woman accidentally finds out that her former Polish lover is still alive. And she has to see him again.
jweekly.com review
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My Italian Secret: The Forgotten Heroes
Tuesday, April 12th, 6:45 PM
Would you risk your life to save a stranger and never talk about it? MY ITALIAN SECRET tells the story of sports idol Gino Bartali and other courageous Italians who carried out ingenious schemes to rescue Jews, partisans and refugees from Nazi-occupied Italy. Gino Bartali is a sports legend; but his most daring triumph came when he risked his life over and over to save Jews threatened by Nazi extermination. The story of Bartali and the secret network he worked with stands in for the stories of thousands of Italians who risked their lives to save others from capture and death. As an entire continent was engulfed in a genocide which took the lives of most Jews in Nazi occupied Europe (nearly 6 million people), more than 80 percent of Italy's Jews survived. Bartali, like most of the rescuers, never sought recognition or reward. Few of those he helped knew his name or what role he played in their rescue.
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Aftermath
Wednesday, April 13th, 6:45 PM
A Polish man who returns home after the death of his father unearths a secret about the now-deceased Jewish residents of his village.
Review: Tablet
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