New England Premier with special guest Shula Reinharz,Director Hadassah-Brandeis Institute

Tickets & Full Schedule: www.jewishfilm.org [1]

Lena Einhorn's stunning adaptation of her book chronicling her mother's teenage years coming of age in the Warsaw Ghetto won the Swedish "Oscars" for Best Picture and Best Screenplay. A suspenseful story of defiance and luck, survival and escape, this innovative feature film is punctuated by interviews with the subject herself.

 

Sweden 2006 120 min Swedish with English subtitles Director: Lena Einhorn
Winner - Best Picture & Best Screenplay, Swedish Film Awards
Winner - Best Int'l Dramatic Feature Film, Vancouver Int'l Jewish Film Festival
Winner - Best Director, Golden Rooster Film Festival, Hangzhou, China
Winner - Best Director & Best Script & Best Actress, Warsaw (Poland) Jewish Film Festival
Winner - Yad Vashem Award, Jerusalem Film Festival

Co-Presented by: Hadassah-Brandeis Institute; Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry

Co-Sponsors:  Facing History & Ourselves and Hans & Mavis Lopater