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Holocaust Memorial Month Program March 23-April 29, 2009
1. Carl Lutz and the Legendary Glass House in Budapest: Exhibition Opening Reception
Time: Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 5:30pm
Venue: Senate Caucus Room (SR-325), Russel Senate Office Building, United States Congress (intersection of Constitution Avenue and First Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002)
By invitation only
The exhibition is about the Swiss Vice-Consul Carl Lutz who rescued thousands of Jews in Budapest from deporation to Nazi death camps during World War II. Co-organized with the Carl Lutz Foundation, Hungarian American Coalition, Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice, Mensch International Foundation, Embassy of Switzerland, and Embassy of Israel.
For more information, please visit this website: http://www.huembwas.org/B_News/CarlLutz/Willimantic/Exhibition.htm
2. Film Screening: Fateless (Sorstalanság)
Time: Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 7pm
Venue: Embassy of Hungary (2950 Spring of Freedom Street, NW, Washington, DC 20008)
RSVP by March 24th by phone (202) 362-6730/201 or by email: rsvp.was@kum.hu
Based on the semi-autobiographic novel by the 2001 Nobel prize winning Hungarian writer Imre Kertész, the film tells the story of young Hungarian Jewish school boy, who is transported to Auschwitz in 1944, then to Buchenwald, eventually returning home to Budapest after the war. Directed by Academy Award Nominee Lajos Koltai, and the music score was composed by Academy Award Nominee Ennio Morricone (2005, running time: 140 min)
For more information, please visit this website: http://www.intercom.hu/honlapok/sorstalansag
3. Film Screening: Captain László Ocskay, the Forgotten Hero (Ocskay László százados, az elfelejtett hős)
Time: Tuesday, April 7, 2009, 7pm
Venue: Embassy of Hungary (2950 Spring of Freedom Street, NW, Washington, DC 20008)
RSVP by April 1st by phone (202) 362-6730/201 or by email: rsvp.was@kum.hu
Directed by Gergely Fonyó, the film is based on the stories of survivors about the bold rescue operation conducted be László Ocskay, Captain of the Royal Hungarian Army during the Second World War. Thanks to Ocskay’s activity, about two thousand hunted Jewish men, women, and children have escaped in the building of the former Jewish high school in the Abonyi Street of Budapest, Hungary (2007, running time: 70 min).
For more information, please visit this website: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1236336
4. Film Screening: Blessed is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh (Bíztatóan int a gyertyafény - Szenes Hanna)
Time: Friday, April 17, 2009, 7pm
Venue: Embassy of Hungary (2950 Spring of Freedom Street, NW, Washington, DC 20008)
RSVP by April 10th by phone (202) 362-6730/201 or by email: rsvp.was@kum.hu
Narrated by Joan Allen, this is the first documentary feature film about Hannah Senesh, the World War II-era poet and diarist who became a paratrooper, resistance fighter and modern-day Joan of Arc. Post-screening live discussion with Director Roberta Grossman (2008, running time: 54 min)
For more information, please visit this website:
http://www.blessedisthematch.com 5. Fundraising reception and silent auction to support and promote the film The Rescuers: Heroes of the Holocaust
Time Change: Tuesday, April 28, 2009, 7:00pm
Venue: Embassy of Hungary (2950 Spring of Freedom Street, NW, Washington, DC 20008)
By invitation only
Emmy Award Winning Documentary filmmaker Michael King is currently producing and directing this feature-length documentary, which focuses on non-Jewish diplomats who worked to save Jews during the Holocaust. The film will be seen through the eyes of Stephanie Nyombayire, a young Rwandan woman and anti-genocide activist who worked as a research assistant for British Historian Sir Martin Gilbert.
For more information, please visit this website: http://www.rescuersheroesoftheholocaust.com/
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