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Community Programs
2008-2009

I. Holocaust Film Series
Presented by the Birmingham Holocaust Education Committee and Birmingham Southern College
Norton Theater, Birmingham Southern College, 900 Arkadelphia Road, Birmingham, AL | 2 November 2008 - 15 March 2009

Free Admission. Continuing Education credits for teachers.

"The Nasty Girl" | 92 minutes
Michael Verhoeven, Director | West Germany
2 November 2008 | 2:00-4:00 p.m.
Nominated for an Academy Award, this film tells the story of a German high school student who decides to write an essay about her town's history during the Third Reich and its resistance to it. Instead, she discovers collaboration. As she digs deeper, she must struggle against the town's vocal and violent opposition to her search for the truth.

"The Legacy of Jedwabne" | 56 minutes
Slawomir Gruenberg, Director | Poland
1 February 2009 | 2:00-4:00 p.m.
This film tells a shocking and brutal story that has been kept a secret in Poland for over 60 years. It tells the story of a pogrom in 1941 in Jedwabne, Poland and explores the implications of the past for present constructions and negotiations of personal, national and religious identity.

"The Grey Zone" | 108 minutes
Tim Blake Nelson, Director | United States
15 March 2009 | 2:00-4:00 p.m.
The true story of Dr. Miklos Nyiszli, a Hungarian Jew chosen by Dr. Josef Mengele to be the head pathologist at Auschwitz. The doctor, along with the Sonderkommandos (Jews who were forced to work in the crematoria), find themselves in a moral grey zone.

II. Birmingham Public Library Brown Bag Lunch Series
March 2009

III. General Dates
70th Anniversary of Kristallnacht | 9 November 2008
For more information see: http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/kristallnacht

International Holocaust Remembrance Day | 29 January 2009
For more information see: http://www.un.org/holocaustremembrance/emainpage.shtml

IV. Ongoing Programs
DNA Shoah Project
The Alabama Holocaust Commission has endorsed the DNA Shoah Project.

The DNA Shoah Project, coordinated with the University of Arizona, Division of Technology, is building a genetic database of people who lost family during the Holocaust. All survivors of the Holocaust and their offspring are offered free DNA analysis as part of the National Geographic Genographic Project. This database will help reunite families torn apart during wartime and aid in identifying victims of the Nazi regime who remain buried anonymously throughout Europe.

For further information call: (866) 897.1150
The DNA Shoah Project
University of Arizona
P.O. Box 210240
Tuscon, Arizona 85721
Email: info@dnashoah.org
OR
For assistance: call (205) 795.4176