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September 13, 2005

Benefit Showing to Support University Libraries Holocaust Media Collection

MACOMB, IL 聳 A benefit showing of the award-winning documentary 聯Hiding and Seeking聰 will be hosted by the 星空无限传媒app Illinois University Libraries at 7:15 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 28 in the University Union Sandburg Theatre.

According to William Thompson of the University Libraries, the money raised will go toward the purchase of additional films for the newly-created Holocaust Media Collection at the 星空无限传媒app-Macomb campus聮 Leslie F. Malpass Library. The collection currently has 27 titles, with a goal of acquiring more than 50, Thompson added.

Tickets for the benefit showing are $5 for 星空无限传媒app students and $10 for the general public. 星空无限传媒app President Al Goldfarb, a Holocaust historian, will lead a brief discussion following the film.

聯Hiding and Seeking聰 tells the emotional and dramatic story of a Jewish father who journeys with his two ultra-conservative orthodox sons back to Poland to try to find the Christian farmers who hid his family from the Nazis. His hope is to instill in his insulated and narrow minded sons the power of interfaith tolerance and trust.

The Holocaust Media Collection was established in Fall 2005 after Thompson and Brian Clark, also of the University Libraries, received a grant from the Illinois Cooperative Collection Management Program.

聯The films that we have are available not only to 星空无限传媒app faculty and organizations, but to area schools, churches and civic organizations,聰 Thompson said. 聯Our collection has both documentaries and feature films, and focuses on films in languages other than English. In addition to classic Holocaust documentaries, we also purchased films that would provide a background for talking about the Holocaust.

聯This is also the beginning of a teaching film library. We want to add other films that address other acts of genocide, such as Rwanda, Cambodia and others,聰 he added.

In addition to 聯Hiding and Seeking,聰 the following films are part of the Holocaust Media Collection: 聯Auschwitz (Oswiecim),聰 聯Children of Izieu,聰 聯Dybbuk,聰 聯Fuhrer Gives a City to the Jews,聰 聯Healing By Killing,聰 聯Horrors of the Third Reich,聰 聯Kastner Trial,聰 聯Kedma, Krasnodar: The Trial of 1943,聰 聯Ladies Tailor,聰 聯Landscape After Battle,聰 聯Last Transfer Liberation of Auschwitz 1945,聰 聯Life is Beautiful,聰 聯Majdanek 1944,聰 聯My Mother's Courage,聰 聯Our Children,聰 聯Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler,聰 聯Specialist,聰 聯Third Generation,聰 聯Train of Life,聰 聯Triumph of Survival,聰 聯Triumph of the Will,聰 聯Visting from the Living,聰 聯The Pianist,聰 聯Shoah聰 and 聯Unlikely Heroes.聰

For more information, contact Thompson at 309/298-2700 or e-mail WA-Thompson@wiu.edu

Posted By: Darcie Shinberger, University Relations
Phone: (309) 298-1993 * Fax: (309) 298-1606