Who Will Write Our History: The Secret Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto (10/30/18)
Who Will Write Our History: The Secret Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto
Tuesday, October 30 2018 at 7:00 PM
Belcourt Theatre
2012 Belcourt Avenue
Imagine if Anne Frank’s diary had never been published. Millions fewer people would know about the Holocaust or see the individual faces of its victims. In fact, the world would be a different place.
Now imagine there were twenty or thirty “Anne Frank” diaries, buried under the Warsaw Ghetto in milk cans and metal boxes that had never really seen the light of day! And what if those milk cans and metal boxes contained more than 30,000 other treasures—poems, paintings, photographs, underground newspapers, essays on hunger, smuggling, the Jewish police, clandestine schools and literary evenings and much more—all collected by brave members of a secret organization who risked their lives so that we, the future generations, would know the truth?
Such a priceless treasure does exist. It’s called the Oyneg Shabes Archive. It is the Dead Sea Scrolls rising from the rubble of the Warsaw Ghetto, and yet, few of us even know of its existence.
This film, co-sponsored with the Nashville Jewish Film Festival, will right that wrong in the way only a film can, by making the story accessible to millions of people around the world.
Nancy Spielberg, sister of Steven Spielberg, was the executive producer of this film and will be at the Belcourt Theatre to discuss with the audience afterward.