holocaust
JoJo Rabbit
Scott Cinema, Bristol Northumbria Drive, Henleaze, Bristol, Avon, United KingdomDir. Taika Waititi, Starring Taika Waititi, Roman Griffin Davis, Scarlett Johansson, Rebel Wilson ; 2019, 123 mins, English Since the days of Chaplin’s The Great Dictator, film-makers have adopted naive or comedic perspectives to pierce and deflate the hideous bubble of Nazi ideology. Now, in this Golden Globe-nominated adaptation of Christine Leunens’s book Caging Skies, … Continue reading JoJo Rabbit
Creativity against the odds: Art and Internment during World War Two
Virtual streamedTo mark the 80th anniversary of the British government’s controversial decision to ‘collar the lot’, this illustrated lecture will examine the art produced in the British internment camps, mostly but not only on the Isle of Man. It will do so in the broader context of art produced in other internment situations, from the Japanese-American camps … Continue reading Creativity against the odds: Art and Internment during World War Two
Ferramonti: Salvation behind the barbed wire
Virtual streamedIn 1982 nearing the end of a remarkable life, consultant David Henryk Ropschitz put pen to paper to share his own story of 1940s wartime survival. His highly personal novel is about life in the Italian internment camp, Ferramonti, where thousands of Jews and other ‘undesirables’ were imprisoned. In his novel Dr Ropschitz looks back … Continue reading Ferramonti: Salvation behind the barbed wire
Sarah’s Key
Scott Cinema, Bristol Northumbria Drive, Henleaze, Bristol, Avon, United KingdomAdapted from Tatiana de Rosnay’s best-selling novel of the same name, Sarah’s Key is an account of research by a journalist into a shameful incident in French history which intertwines with a story of a young Jewish girl from that time period. ‘In Paris in 1942 the French police round up 10-year-old Sarah (Mélusine … Continue reading Sarah’s Key
The Ghetto: Travelling through history
Redland Quaker Meeting House 126 Hampton Road , Bristol, United Kingdom“Ghetto” is an extraordinarily complex word which is both a noun and an adjective. It has layers of contrasting meanings accrued over five hundred years and a bewildering array of settings across the globe. It refers to medieval and early modern Jewish history; black experience in the great northern cities of America in the twentieth … Continue reading The Ghetto: Travelling through history
Everything is Illuminated
Scott Cinema, Bristol Northumbria Drive, Henleaze, Bristol, Avon, United KingdomUSA 2005, 104 mins, English, Russian, Ukrainian Director Liev Schreiber, featuring Elijah Wood, Eugene Hütz This American biographical comedy was adapted from Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel of the same name. Jonathan Safran Foer, a young American Jew, goes on a quest to find the woman, Augustine, who saved his grandfather, Safran Foer, during the Holocaust in a small Ukrainian town … Continue reading Everything is Illuminated
Charlotte
Scott Cinema, Bristol Northumbria Drive, Henleaze, Bristol, Avon, United KingdomBased on an expansive collection of a thousand autobiographical paintings found after the war - considered by some to be the first graphic novel - this stunningly beautiful, animated film sheds light on the life and work of Berlin-born artist Charlotte Salomon. Restricted and haunted by antisemitic laws, the immensely gifted Salomon was forced to … Continue reading Charlotte
Shadow of the Day
Scott Cinema, Bristol Northumbria Drive, Henleaze, Bristol, Avon, United KingdomItaly 2022, 128 mins, Italian (with English subtitles); Director Giuseppe Piccione, featuring Riccardo Scarmarcio, Benedetta Porcaroli The film is set in 1938 Italy. Like the majority of his fellow Italians, decorated war veteran and restaurant manager Luciano is a staunch supporter of the country’s fascist regime. Shortly after the Italian racial laws are introduced, Anna, a … Continue reading Shadow of the Day
Berlin to London: An Emotional History of two Refugees
Redland Quaker Meeting House 126 Hampton Road , Bristol, United KingdomIn this talk, Esther Saraga explores her complex and ambivalent relationships as daughter and academic to a vast collection of family papers concerned with my parents’ forced migration from Nazi Germany. She recognised that the letters do not ‘speak for themselves’, but tell several different possible stories. I have used the papers to explore ‘how … Continue reading Berlin to London: An Emotional History of two Refugees
TRACES – Voices of the Second Generation
Redland Quaker Meeting House 126 Hampton Road , Bristol, United KingdomThis fifty-minute documentary film explores the Holocaust’s impact on the children of survivors, including recorded interviews. They share their families’ true stories and explore the complexities of having Holocaust survivors as parents. It is produced by Tracey Goldring who is founder of Searching for Identity, an organisation that works with second and third generation of … Continue reading TRACES – Voices of the Second Generation
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