The National Center for Jewish Film's 13th Annual Film Festival
YOM HASHOAH EVENT
Sunday, April 11
12:00 pm @ Brandeis University
EINSATZGRUPPEN: THE DEATH BRIGADES
Les Commandos de la Mort
PREMIERE: 2ND USA SCREENING
In June 1941, Nazi mobile killing squads led by highly educated officers known as the Einsatzgruppen were dispatched throughout Eastern Europe. By the spring of 1943, the 3,000 members of the Einsatzgruppen - aided by local collaborators in each country - had systematically murdered 1.5 million Jews, Roma, handicapped, partisans and Soviets. Prazan's definitive masterwork is one of the essential films documenting the Holocaust and features a powerful array of never-before-seen film and photographs, along with interviews with Holocaust survivors, perpetrators and historians.
Part I: Mass Graves (1941-42); Part II: Funeral Pyres (1942-45). One intermission.
France | 2009 | 180 min | DigiBeta | English narration, French, German w/ English subtitles | Director: Michaël Prazan
CO-PRESENTED BY: Center for German & European Studies; Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry; Geothe-Institut Boston
SPONSORS: Student Holocaust Remembrance Committee; Facing History and Ourselves
USHMM Holocaust Encyclopedia entry on the Einsatzgruppen
Schedule of all Jewishfilm.2010 Screenings