The AJFF and the Austin Film Society (Tickets) present SHOAH:
The Unseen Interviews in a partnership for Holocaust education called Light / The Holocaust & Humanity Project. This project promotes the protection of human rights against bigotry and hate through arts, education and public dialogue.
SHOAH: The Unseen Interviews showcases aspects of historical witnesses’ lives–their families, the will to survive, attempts to alert the world to the Nazi genocide and to rescue Europe’s remaining Jews. Guest speaker Leslie Swift, from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, will take questions after the screening.
The film is compiled from outtake footage shot in the course of making Director Claude Lanzmann’s monumental documentary, SHOAH, an asset of the Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive of the Museum.
In 2012, Light / The Holocaust & Humanity Project events and initiatives in Austin, led by more than 30 community partners, run from Martin Luther King Day (January 15) through Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), April 19. Ballet Austin, a lead partner, presents its nationally recognized ballet for the project March 23–25, at the Long Center.
