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Over the last few days I’ve overheard my grandmother and father talk endlessly about Celia Tiano, an Auschwitz survivor from Salonika, Greece, their next-door neighbor on 7th Avenue -- a quiet block in the Hyde Park area of L.A., during the 1950s and 60s. After more than 40 years, my family has reconnected with Celia -- through testimony. We were able to make this connection because of a film project I had been working on for the Student Voices Short Film Contest.
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Har Zion Temple
1500 Hagys Ford Road, Penn Valley, PA
This year’s program will include a survivor candle lighting, memorial service and special screening of the film Auschwitz. This definitive new short film, produced by Steven Spielberg, directed by James Moll and narrated by Meryl Streep, was created for the official commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. The honored guest is Auschwitz survivor Israel Arbeiter, who will share his life experiences including his recent trip back to Poland.
Shortly after triggering World War II with its 1939 invasion of Poland, Nazi Germany set about repurposing a system of immigrant barracks in the city of Oświęcim to house political prisoners. Renamed Auschwitz, the facility would become the most notorious killing factory in human history.
Tracing this tragic trajectory is the 15-minute documentary “Auschwitz.”
Produced by Steven Spielberg, directed by James Moll, narrated by Meryl Streep and scored by Hans Zimmer, “Auschwitz” chronicles how the Nazi regime used the facility to systematically murder some 1.1 million people, the vast majority of them Jews.
Using archival war footage, panoramic flyovers and computer-generated imagery to capture the enormity, scale and brutal utility of the camps, “Auschwitz” paints a chilling portrait of a dark chapter that must never be forgotten, lest it be repeated.
