Neighbors Turning Against Neighbors: Holocaust Lecture Series
Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish community of Jedwabne, Poland
Tuesday, Oct. 1st at 7 p.m. in the Ben Schulman Center for Jewish Life Assembly Room
Poland was one site of the Holocaust in which Jews and non-Jews had lived side-by-side for centuries, their communities closely interwoven even as they maintained their distinctive traditions. Â Jan Gross, Professor of History at Princeton University, is the author of the acclaimed book, Â Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community of Jedwabne, Poland (2002). Â In his talk Prof. Gross will describe the reaction his book elicited after its publication in Poland, as well as his more recent research on this important topic.
Film: In Darkness
Wednesday, Oct. 2nd at 7 p.m. in Cohen Memorial 203
From acclaimed director Agnieszka Holland (Europa, Europa),  In Darkness is based on a true story. Leopold Socha, a sewer worker and petty thief in Lvov, a Nazi-occupied city in Poland, one day encounters a group of Jews trying to escape the liquidation of the ghetto. He hides them for money in the labyrinth of the town-€™s sewers beneath the bustling activity of the city above. What starts out as a straightforward and cynical business arrangement turns into something very unexpected; the unlikely alliance between Socha and the Jews as the enterprise seeps deeper into Socha-€™s conscience. The film is also an extraordinary story of survival as these men, women and children all try to outwit certain death during 14 months of ever increasing and intense danger.