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SUMMARY:Rare Holocaust Film Screening
DESCRIPTION: \nFrom the San Antonio Express-News: \n‘German Concentration Camps Factual Survey\,’ rated R \nSan Antonio will be one of only two cities nationwide to screen a restored British film documenting the atrocities of German concentration camps as Allied soldiers came across them at the end of World War II. Newsreel camera crews accompanying combat soldiers shot the footage as they entered Auschwitz\, Bergen-Belsen\, Dachau and other sites whose liberation 70 years ago is being commemorated worldwide this week. \nThe documentary\, “German Concentration Camps Factual Survey” was chiefly overseen by the British government with the involvement of the director Alfred Hitchcock but was abruptly shelved as the Cold War began. The Holocaust Memorial Museum of the Jewish Federation of San Antonio is partnering with London’s Imperial War Museum to offer a free screening of “Factual Survey” at the Holzmann Auditorium at the Jewish Community Center on Thursday at 7 p.m. Those who plan to attend should call (210) 302-6807 to reserve a seat. \nThe film\, rated R\, will be followed by a question and answer session with the team that restored it.\nMore Information \nThe film will be followed by a question and answer session with the team that restored it. \nThe museum’s executive director\, Francesca Garrett\, said the film “was meant to show the shocking reality so future generations could not deny the true horrors of the Holocaust.” Garrett said the film is highly graphic and organizers are discouraging parents from bringing children to the event. \n“Factual Survey” was meant to be a teaching tool to convince Germans of the depth of the Holocaust\, but was canceled when U.S. and British policymakers pivoted their attention in postwar Europe to confronting Soviet expansionism and raising German morale. \nAside from its debut at the Berlin Film Festival last year and a screening in Los Angeles earlier this week\, Garrett said\, the film has not been seen for seven decades. San Antonio is its only other scheduled appearance. \nHistorians and film critics describe it as so powerful that it inspired its own HBO-produced documentary on how it was made\, suppressed and restored. Called “Night Will Fall\,” it began airing this week on the cable network. \nGarrett said the local museum’s existing partnership with the Imperial War Museum helped San Antonio land the screening. The Alamo City once had 70 Holocaust survivors living here\, she said. Seven survive and three plan to attend Thursday screening\, she said. \nThe finished reels\, storyboards and scripts sat in British archives for more than 60 years\, until the Imperial War Museum began the restoration project in 2010. Those behind the restoration hope to release it more widely\, either in theaters or on DVD\, according to a report this week in Britain’s the Guardian. \n
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LOCATION:12500 NW Military Highway\, San Antonio\, TX\, United States
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