FILMS

Award-winning filmmaker (and JFilm alum) Roberta Grossman reveals the untold story of the intense negotiations between Jewish and German leaders that led to the 1952 Luxembourg Agreement. Charged with negotiating reparations for the largest mass genocide in history at a time when Holocaust survivors urgently needed help, they met in a hidden castle near The Hague under the constant threat of violence. Featuring dramatized scenes and interviews with historians, including Nuremberg War Crimes prosecutor Ben Ferencz, Grossman’s riveting documentary, brings to life the fraught meetings that led to the official acknowledgement of the genocide and the proposal seen as the first step towards healing.   

Official Selection – Washington Jewish Film Festival 

Winner – Audience Award – Miami Jewish Film Festival  

“The film examines an unprecedented moral accounting by the perpetrators of genocide and the difficult decision by Israel and the survivors to accept what so many disdained as ‘blood money.’” – Andrew Silow-Carroll, Jewish Telegraphic Agency  

Preceded by a Bagel Brunch from 12-12:45pm + join us for Film Schmooze* led by Dr. Jonathan Zisook, University of Pittsburgh, after the screening!    

In person screening + Bagel Brunch + Film Schmooze
Sunday, April 30, bagel brunch at 12pm, screening at 1pm | CMU – McConomy Auditorium

*Film Schmooze is a casual post-film discussion sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh – Jewish Studies program.

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