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SHOAH: FOUR SISTERS A Film by Claude Lanzmann presented by Laemmle Theatres, LA Jewish Film Festival and American Jewish University
A Tribute to Claude Lanzmann
Q&A with renowned Holocaust scholar, Michael Berenbaum, Director of the Sigi Ziering Institute at American Jewish University and friend of Lanzmann's
Starting in 1999, Claude Lanzmann made several films that could be considered satellites of SHOAH, comprised of interviews conducted in the 1970s that didnt make it into the final, monumental work. In the last years of his life, he decided to devote a film to four women from four different areas of Eastern Europe with four different destinies. Lanzmann stated, "The more I thought about these four women, the more the necessity to bring the spotlight on these female faces of the Shoah seems important. Each of them deals with a little-known chapter of the Holocaust, each from a unique point of view." Lanzmann died on July 5, 2018, one day after Shoah: Four Sisters was released in French cinemas. This is the last film from Lanzmann.
The two segments we will premiere are:
THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH; In 1942, Ruth Elias, 17, was deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto. Elias's parents and sister were deported to Auschwitz but she was able to remain behind by marrying her boyfriend. In early 1943 she became pregnant. She was sent to Auschwitz later that year and interned in the infamous Czech Family Camp. When her pregnancy was finally recognized, she was placed under the care of the infamous Josef Mengele.
THE MERRY FLEA; In 1939, Ada Lichtman from Wieliczka, Poland, survived the mass shootings but was driven from village to village to perform forced labor. Eventually she was deported to the extermination camp at Sobibor where more than 250,000 Jews would be gassed. Among only three women selected for work in the camp, Lichtman washed laundry and repaired dolls taken from Jewish children for export to Germany.
Documentary/2018
Running time: 141 minutes
USA premiere
In Partnership with Laemmle Theatres, American Jewish University and Jewish Journal
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LocationLaemmle Music Hall Theater (View)
9036 Wilshire Blvd.
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
United States
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