Museum’s Mission Remembers and Prevents
Local crowd sees rare footage of survivors from United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Film curator explains purpose of work is to remember horrors and prevent future occurrences.
Film’s role not only preserving history but keeping its ills from happening again was made clear to more than 550 people at a showing of previously unseen clips of Holocaust survivors left out of the movie Shoah Tuesday at Congregation Am Shalom in Glencoe. Made in 1985, Shoah is a nine hour film of interviews of survivors of the Nazi Holocaust during World War II. The late film critic Gene Siskel considered it the greatest movie accomplishment of all time, according to his widow, Marlene Iglitzen, an Am Shalom member. “Remembering never to forget is the reason we are here,” Iglitzen said. Not every interview made it into the movie, but when Steven Spielberg spearheaded a project with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in …
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Tim Baber
8:38 am on Tuesday, December 13, 2011
I have seen other figures for those sent to their death by Mengele, 200,000. 400,000 but your claim of millions I have not seen before.It does matter. Every clue helps the researcher or hunter for clues years later. For example, in the your film your pregnant survivor gets this mention viz Mengele:- Twins, yes, but he was selecting also giants, dwarves and people with mutations or fabricating … more ›