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From: Schelly Talalay Dardashti <>
Subject: [GEN-EVENTS] Film Festival - 27th IAJGS International Conference onJewish Genealogy
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 06:58:38 -0700 (PDT)


The Second Genealogy Film Festival will take place at the 27th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy, July 15-20, 2007, in Salt Lake City, Utah.

For all event details, online registration, the complete program schedule including some 100 speakers and 200 sessions of all types, go to www.slc2007.org.

The 2007 Genealogy Film Festival line up, coordinated by Pamela Weisberger of Los Angeles, will screen from morning to evening - at no charge - educational, entertaining and illuminating films covering many geographical and genealogical subjects. In April, the complete schedule will be announced on the conference website.

Here are some highlights:

"Belzec: The Documentary" - A chilling account about horrifically efficient Nazi death camp. In less than a year, at least 600,000 Jews, mostly from Galicia, were murdered

"Sugihara: Conspiracy of Kindness" - Chiune and Yukiko Sugihara who, when confronted with evil, risked careers, livelihoods and future - in defiance of government orders - to save more than 6,000 Jews in Kaunus, Lithuania, the second largest number of rescued Jews.

"The Ritchie Boys" - Jewish teens who escaped the Nazis train in intelligence work and psychological warfare at Maryland's Camp Ritchie. As US soldiers, they return to Europe with the greatest motivation to fight the war.

"West Bank Story" - Academy Award-winning short film. Israeli soldier David and Palestinian cashier Fatima are an unlikely couple who fall in love amidst the animosity of their families' dueling West Bank falafel stands. A musical comedy about the hope for peace.

"Everything is Illuminated" - Jonathan Safran Foer visits his Jewish roots in Ukraine and find the family that saved his grandfather from the Nazis.

Klezmer musician and filmmaker Yale Strom's works include the "Hungarian Carpati: 50 miles, 50 years," and "The Man from Munkacs;" and Galician/Polish "Klezmer on Fish Street" and "The Last Klezmer: Leopold Kozlowski, His Life and Music."

"A Torah Returns to Poland" - A Torah written in 1876 Alsace, France, accompanies the community's deportation to Auschwitz, survives the war, is found in New York, and is returned to today's living Jewish community of Poland.

"From Kristallnacht to Crystal Day: A Synagogue in Wroclaw Glows Again" - Retrospective of life in Wroclaw, Poland (formerly Breslau, Germany) from 1829 until today through the eyes of a synagogue.

"Swiss Jewry: An Island in the Twentieth Century" - Dormant bank accounts, Nazi gold and refugees through the eyes of the Swiss Jewish community.

The line-up also includes "Watermarks," inspirational film about the Viennese women’s swimming team from the sports club, Hakoah; "Bernie," filmmaker Jay Heyman’s Grandpa Bernie grew up in New York City's Hebrew Orphan Asylum;
and "Hiding and Seeking: Faith and Tolerance After the Holocaust," Menachem Daum travels to Poland to find the Polish peasant family that hid his father-in-law.

Schelly Talalay Dardashti
Publicity Chair
27th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy
www.slc2007,org




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