Monday Night Film Series - Time To Remember - 7 Holocaust Films

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Time to Remember Seven Films of Stories From The Holocaust Mondays. All screenings start at 6:00 P.M. All films are shown in the Anne Louise Davis Community Meeting Room of the Plainfield Public Library 800 Park Avenue, Plainfield For directions, call (908) 757-1111

April 10 Diary of Anne Frank Harrowing drama of a 13 year-old Jewish girl who is forced to hide in the attic with her family for two years during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. Oscar: Best Actress, Shelley Winters. 1959.

April 17 Paper Clips Documentary of students in a Tennessee middle school struggling to grasp the concept of six million Jews killed in the Holocaust. They receive world-wide support in their effort to collect six million paper clips as a lasting tribute. 2004.

April 24 Playing for Time Gripping performances by Vanessa Redgrave and Jane Alexander as female prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp, who are spare from death in return for performing music for their captors. Emmies: Outstanding Drama, Outstanding Actress, Supporting Actress and Screenplay (by Arthur Miller). 1980.

May 1 Garden of the Finzi Continis The serenity of an aristocratic Italian Jewish family is shattered by the Nazis, and their social status cannot protect them from the doom that awaits. Oscar: Best Foreign Film. 1973

May 8 Nuit et Brouillard (Night and Fog) Award-winning film depicting the horrors of Nazi concentration camps. Director Alain Resnais combines color footage of Auschwitz with black-and-white newsreels and stills. 1955.

May 15 Bent Ian McKellan stars in this drama of the persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany. Besides Jews, the Nazi death machine targeted homosexuals, labor and political activists, and Slavs. 1977.

May 22 Au Revoir, Les Enfants (Goodbye, Children) Director Louis Malle based this masterpiece on his own years in a Catholic boarding school, where a Jewish boy is being hidden from the Nazis. Winner of 21 international awards. 1988.

This film series is shown in conjunction with the exhibit Survival of the Human Spirit: Triumph Over Adversity Created by The Center for Holocaust Studies At Brookdale Community College