Event

Pizza in Auschwitz

The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival and the Jewish Community Center of the East Bay are proud to present Pizza in Auschwitz, screening with Yessir, This is Kosher, co-presented by The Israel Center, The Goethe Institut San Francisco, Berkeley Hillel, and the Holocaust Center of Northern California.

Only a survivor of five concentration camps would have the chutzpah to make bitter humor out of his experience--starting with the title of this compelling documentary. Pizza in Auschwitz ('Best of Festival,' International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2008) follows Israeli Holocaust survivor Danny Chanoch as he retraces the steps of his gruesome childhood journey from farm to shtetl to concentration camp, with his adult children in tow. Tensions build to a climax when the entourage comes face to face with Danny's ultimate goal: to spend a night with them in his old Auschwitz baracks. For vociferously wary daughter Miri, who narrates the documentary, and quietly-concerned Orthodox son Sagi, this might be the last straw in the experiment that Miri calls "Holocaust reality TV."

In the unorthodox docu-comedy, Yessir, This is Kosher, an eccentric cast of oddly endearing characters gather regularly at Caf Bleibergs, a kosher caf smack in the middle of Berlin.

Tickets are $8/general, $6/students, seniors, and members of the Jewish Film Forum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and/or the JCC East Bay. To join the Jewish Film Forum, click here now. Tickets also available at the door beginning at 7 p.m. day of screening.

Thursday, February 4th, 7:30PM
East Bay JCC Theater, 1414 Walnut Street, Berkeley, CA 94709

SFJFF's screenings at the JCC East Bay are generously sponsored by Jane Gottesman & Geoffrey Biddle.