(CLEVELAND, OH) January 24, 2019 – The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage is proud to be part of a global screening of the film Who Will Write Our History held on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. On January 27, 2019, Who Will Write Our History will screen simultaneously at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. and at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles. On the same day, there will be hundreds of other screenings around the world held in theaters, churches, mosques, synagogues, universities, museums and community centers. The public is invited join the Maltz Museum and its community partners at 3PM this Sunday to take part in this unprecedented international event. Limited seating available, please register to reserve a seat; $10 General & $5 Maltz Museum Members. 2929 Richmond Road in Beachwood, OH; 216-593-0575 or www.maltzmuseum.org.
About the Film
In November 1940, days after the Nazis sealed 450,000 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, a secret band of journalists, scholars and community leaders decided to fight back. Led by historian Emanuel Ringelblum and known by the code name Oyneg Shabes, this clandestine group vowed to defeat Nazi lies and propaganda not with guns or fists but with pen and paper. Now, for the first time, their story is told as a feature documentary. Written, produced, and directed by Roberta Grossman and executive produced by Nancy Spielberg, Who Will Write Our History mixes the writings of the Oyneg Shabes archive with new interviews, rarely seen footage and stunning dramatizations to transport us inside the Ghetto and the lives of these courageous resistance fighters. They defied their murderous enemy with the ultimate weapon – the truth – and risked everything so that their archive would survive the war, even if they did not.
Watch the Trailer >>> https://vimeo.com/264131543
Thank you to our community partners: Facing History and Ourselves, Global Cleveland, Jewish Federation of Cleveland’s Community Relations and Yom Hasoah v’Hagvurah Commemoration Committees, Kol Israel Foundation, and Shul Boys.
For more information or to register please call 216.593.0575 or visit www.maltzmuseum.org.
