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|
There Once Was a Town |
| USA/Israel, 1999,
video, 90 minutes Hebrew, Polish, Russian and English with English subtitles Director: Jeff Bieber American Premiere Sunday, December 5, 4:45 pm |
| This powerful documentary takes us back to the little shtetl of Eishyshok with author Yaffa Eliach and three other people who called the town home prior to the Holocaust. Zwi Michael is on a quest to find the young Christian farm girl who saved his life. Reuvan Paikowsky is searching for his father’s grave. Abe Asner is looking for a Torah he hid in the walls of a house before eluding the Nazis. Yaffa Eliach, creator of the permanent "Tower of Life" exhibit at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum is searching for the murderers of her mother who was killed following the end of the war. Ed Asner narrates the stories of these four survivors. Through their searches and recollections we are confronted not just by their personal losses, but also by the loss of an entire world, that although vanished, has been preserved in memory. |
| Chanukah Candlelighting will take place at 5:45 pm every night in the Q Street Lobby of the DCJCC (December 4 through 10) |
| In
Cooperation with The Embassy of Israel |
and the Goethe-Institut Washington |
Special Guest:
Jeff Bieber, Director/Producer
Distributed by WETA (PBS,
Washington)
http://www.weta.org/
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