The Jewish Federation of the Quad Cities presents The Lloyd M. Burstein Memorial "Holocaust Film Series 2022" beginning Sunday, March 13th, 4:00 p.m. at the Figge Art Museum Theater, 225 W. 2nd St, Davenport, Iowa.
Tickets are available at the door: Adults $7; Seniors (60+) and Military $6; Students Free. For info call (309) 793-1300. All of the films in this series have won multiple awards, and all have adult content.
"Love it was Not"
Sunday, March 13, 4:00 pm
A tragic love story between a prisoner and her captor. Flamboyant and full of life, Helena Citron is taken to Auschwitz as a young woman, and soon finds unlikely solace under the tutelage of Franz Wunsch, a high-ranking SS officer who falls in love with her and her magnetic singing voice. Risking a certain execution if caught, their forbidden relationship went on until her miraculous liberation. But when a letter arrives from Wunsch's wife, thirty years later, begging Helena to testify on Wunsch's behalf, she's faced with an impossible decision: will she help the man who brutalized so many lives, but saved hers, along with some of the people closest to her? (86 minutes) Hebrew/German with English subtitles - Documentary/War (2021)
"Sobibor"
Sunday, March 27, 4:00 pm
Sobibor" is based on the history of the Sobibór extermination camp uprising during WWII and Soviet officer Alexander Pechersky. When he was a POW in Sobibor, he managed to do the impossible - to organize a revolt and mass escape of the prisoners. Many of the escapees were later caught and died - the rest led by Pechersky managed to join the partisans. Script based on the book by Ilya Vasiliev: "Alexander Pechersky: Breakthrough to Immortality." (110 minutes) Dutch/Russian/German/Polish with English Subtitles - Drama/War (2018)
"Three Minutes - A Lengthening"
Sunday, April 3, 4:00 pm
"Three Minutes - A Lengthening" presents a home movie shot by David Kurtz in 1938 in a Jewish town in Poland and tries to postpone its ending. The film is a haunting essay about history and memory. As long as we are watching, history is not over yet. The three minutes of footage, mostly in color, are the only moving images left of the Jewish inhabitants of Nasielsk before the Holocaust. Those precious minutes are examined moment by moment to unravel the human stories hidden in the celluloid. Different voices enhance the images: Glenn Kurtz, grandson of David Kurtz, and Maurice Chandler, who appears in the footage as a young boy. Actress Helena Bonham Carter narrates the film. (67 minutes) English - Documentary (2021)
The annual "Holocaust Film Series", presented by the Jewish Federation of the Quad Cites, is named the "Lloyd M. Burstein Holocaust Film Series".
Lloyd Burstein was born in 1920 in Granville, Illinois to Latvian parents fleeing religious persecution in the pre-WWI Baltic State. During the Depression, Lloyd, who was the oldest of 5 children, worked hard to keep his siblings together as they lived in a cooperative Jewish children's orphanage in Southern California, and simultaneously he took night classes at UCLA to earn an undergraduate degree in physics. Lloyd was a Radar Battalion Officer in the US Army during WWII and afterwards continued his career as a systems engineer in the DC area. In 1957, he and his family settled in Vienna, Virginia where Lloyd was very active in uplifting the inner city community through the integration of schools, equal educational opportunities, and civil rights initiatives. In 1999, Lloyd received the Human Rights Award from the Fairfax County Human Rights Commission.
Presenting Sponsor:
The Joyce and Tony Singh Family Foundation
Additional Sponsors:
Rauch Family Foundation II, Inc.
Wheelan-Pressley Funeral Homes
Jewel Osco
Quad City Bank & Trust
Stanley and Bernice Harris Memorial Endowment Fund
Bernard and Irene Goldstein Memorial Endowment Fund
Louis & Ida-Fox Rich Fund
Gary and Randi Segal Family
Marlyne and David Weiner Family
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