**THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED DUE TO WEATHER!

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CANCELED Film Screening:

Birthplace
(Pawel Lozinski, 1992, 47 min, Poland, in Polish w/ English subtitles, Color, DVD)

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-- Introduced by Prof. Brad Prager (German Studies/Film Studies, University of Missouri), author of After the Fact: The Holocaust in Twenty-First Century Documentary Film

-- Q&A to follow w/ the subject of the documentary, the award-winning author and survivor Henryk Grynberg

In Birthplace (1992) the poet, author, and Holocaust survivor Henryk Grynberg returns to the remote parts of Poland where he was born and where he and his family hid during the Second World War. Together with the filmmaker Pawel Lozinski, Grynberg delves into the past, confronting an array of bystanders and perpetrators, many of whom knew his family and vividly recall the injustices of the occupation. One by one Grynberg uncovers harsh truths about his brother's and father's fates. Relying on witness accounts and an astonishing series of interviews, Grynberg digs deeper and deeper, following the trail wherever it leads. Desmond Ryan of the Philadelphia Inquirer writes that the film "has a force and passion that fiction cannot aspire to." It is an unforgettable documentary.

About the guest speaker:
Henryk Grynberg was born in Warsaw in 1936. He is a Polish-Jewish writer and a survivor of the Nazi occupation, having spent the years 1942 to 1944 in hiding. He is the author of more than thirty books of prose and poetry as well as two dramas. Works published in English include Child of the Shadows (Vallentine Mitchell, 1969), which was re-edited as The Jewish War and The Victory (Northwestern UP, 2001); Children of Zion (Northwestern UP, 1997).

Cost: Free and Open to the Public

Sponsors: The Center for Jewish Studies, Rutgers--The State University of New Jersey, the Department of German Studies, the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies (UNC-CH), and the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI). Screening made possible by the generous permission of Kronika Film Studio (Warsaw, Poland).