Oct

21 2018

Chai Tea Event: Who Will Write Our History

12:30PM - 6:45PM  

Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk 5095 Yonge Street (North York Centre subway station)
Toronto, ON M2N 6Z4
boxoffice@tjff.ca
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Contact
416-324-9121
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$ Cost $ 16.00

Roberta Grossman brings to life “arguably, the most important Holocaust story never told.” (Tablet) 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. 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. Based on the acclaimed book by Samuel Kassow, Who Will Write Our History mixes the writings of the Oyneg Shabes archive with new interviews, rarely seen footage and stunning dramatizations.

Followed by a Q & A with author Samuel Kassow

Sponsor: ShaRna Foundation, Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies, Toronto Workmen's Circle, Michael & Elaine Lipton

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