Yom HaShoah Film Screening Event: Who Will Write Our History

​Part of a GLOBAL SCREENING EVENT for Yom HaShoah!
Film Screening & Discussion:  Who Will Write Our History
Thursday, May 2 • 7:00–9:00pm
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In honor of Yom HaShoah, the Jewish Federation of Northwest Indiana is pleased to host a special screening of this important documentary about a group of spiritual resisters who risked their lives so that the truth would survive, even if they did not. 

In November 1940, days after the Nazis sealed 450,000 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, a secret band of journalists, scholars and community leaders decided to fight back. Led by historian Emanuel Ringelblum and known by the code name Oyneg Shabes, this clandestine group vowed to defeat Nazi lies and propaganda not with guns or fists but with pen and paper. 
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Now, for the first time, their story is told as a feature documentary. Written, produced and directed by Roberta Grossman and executive produced by Nancy Spielberg, Who Will Write Our History mixes the writings of the Oyneg Shabes archive with new interviews, rarely seen footage and stunning dramatizations to transport us inside the Ghetto and the lives of these courageous resistance fighters. They defied their murderous enemy with the ultimate weapon—the truth—and risked everything so that their archive would survive the war, even if they did not.

A discussion will follow, facilitated by Federation board member Carol Culberg.

Admission is FREE, but seating is limited. RSVP to (219) 301-0960 or online:

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• Written, produced and directed by Roberta Grossman
• Executive produced by Nancy Spielberg
• Based on the book by Samuel Kassow
• Featuring the voices of three-time Academy Award® nominee Joan Allen and Academy Award® winner Adrien Brody

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For more about the film, please visit: whowillwriteourhistory.com