Hollywood and the Holocaust
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 To mark its 20th anniversary year, MCHE is offering a six-part program series featuring narrative films produced in the United States and nominated for at least one Academy Award.
The monthly series, to be held at the Jewish Community Campus, will begin in January with Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust, which provides context and background for five commercial movies, dating from 1942 through 1989.
Collectively, the films illustrate how depiction of the Holocaust in American cinema has changed over five decades as the country’s own relationship with this history has evolved.
Each film will be shown at the Jewish Community Campus and is preceded by an introduction at 7:00 p.m. and followed by a question-and-answer session and a light dessert reception.
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Remaining Featured Film
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In 1949 New York, a Polish Jew (Ron Silver), who was hidden during the war and who now works as a ghostwriter for a Jewish rabbi (Alan King), finds himself involved with three women: his current wife, a Polish non-Jew who hid him during the war; another survivor (Lena Olin), who is married; and his first wife from Poland (Anjelica Huston), who was thought to have been killed in the Holocaust along with their two children but who suddenly reappears. Based on the novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer, the film focuses on the survivors, who question religion and a God who could let the Holocaust occur. (119 minutes)
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Grants in support of Hollywood and the Holocaust were provided by the
Earl J. and Leona K. Tranin Special Fund* and the White Theatre Grantor Fund*
Series Gold Sponsors:
Donna Gould Cohen Fund*
John and Trudy Jacobson Foundation Fund*
Regina M. and William B. Kort Donor Advised Fund*
*of the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City