Tag: Film
Film Screening: “Baltic Truth”
Narrated by award-winning Israeli performer and son of Holocaust Survivors Dudu Fisher, Baltic Truth exposes key facts of the first months of World War II in the Baltic States and how almost the entire Jewish community of the occupied Baltic Nations was eliminated via “Holocaust by Bullets” with assistance from the local population. Ultimately, Baltic… Read More
North American Film Premiere: “The Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes”
5:15 pm Reception, 6:15 pm Screening Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, in association with MGM Television, SIPUR, Toluca Pictures, Alice Communications, and Menemsha Films, will host the North American premiere of The Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes on January 19, 2023. The Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes unearths secret recordings of Adolf… Read More
On-Site Film & Discussion: “Adam & Ida – Almost a Fairy Tale”
Orphaned and torn apart at the age of 3, twins Adam and Ida Paluch survived the Holocaust without knowing what had happened to each other. Adam endured life in a concentration camp and was later adopted. Ida evaded capture as a hidden child in Nazi-occupied-Poland. Both children were baptized, issued fake birth certificates with new… Read More
Film Premiere: “Speer Goes To Hollywood”
Grand winner of the Israeli Academy Awards and winner of three major awards at the Israeli Documentary Awards, Speer Goes to Hollywood presents the enigma of Albert Speer: the highest-ranking Nazi in Nuremberg who, despite his crimes, was spared the death sentence. Speer was one of Hitler’s closest confidants and his chief architect, tasked with… Read More
JCC Chicago Jewish Film Festival
The highly-anticipated JCC Chicago Jewish Film Festival is returning to Illinois Holocaust Museum to host four film screenings with audience discussions. This year, attendees can gather together in the Museum’s auditorium or watch from the comfort of home. Learn more about this year’s slate of films below! Please contact cjff@jccchicago.org or 847.763.3507 with any questions…. Read More
Film Screening & Discussion: “Passage to Sweden”
Passage to Sweden, a documentary produced and directed by Suzannah Warlick, tells a compelling story about European Jews who escaped to freedom and safety in Sweden and events that occurred in Scandinavia and Budapest during World War II. The documentary highlights ordinary people’s courageous acts that helped save thousands of Jews from the occupying German… Read More
On-Site Film Screening: Sneak Peek – “The Auschwitz Report”
The Auschwitz Report, Slovakia’s 2020 Oscar submission for Best International Film, shares the true story of two Auschwitz prisoners who escaped and provided a rare firsthand report of genocide at the camp. The film’s limited cinema release will not include Illinois movie theaters, so be sure to join us for this special “sneak peek” to see… Read More
Virtual Film Discussion: “Quo Vadis Aida?”
2021 Oscar nominee for Best International Feature Film, Quo Vadis Aida?, recounts and dramatizes the legacy of one of the worst mass murders in European history since the Holocaust: the 1995 Srebrenica Genocide. More than 8,000 Bosniak Muslims were murdered by the Bosnian Serb Army of Republika Srpska. Through the eyes of Aida Selmanagic, a translator working… Read More