Who Will Write Our History? A Film by Roberta Grossman

Join the Asheville JCC and Grail Moviehouse for a screening of Who Will Write Our History by Roberta Grossman.

In November 1940, days after the Nazis sealed 450,000 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, a secret band of journalists, scholars and community leaders decided to fight back.  Led by historian Emanuel Ringelblum and known by the code name Oyneg Shabes, this clandestine group vowed to defeat Nazi lies and propaganda not with guns or fists, but with pen and paper.  Now, for the first time, their story is told.

Based on the book by Samuel D. Kassow, Who Will Write Our History mixes the writings of the Oyneg Shabes archive with new interviews, rarely seen archival footage and stunning dramatizations to transport us inside the Ghetto and the lives of these courageous resistance fighters.  They defied their murderous enemy with the ultimate weapon – the truth – and risked everything so that their archive would survive the war, even if they did not.

*A Portion of the Proceeds will benefit the NC Council on the Holocaust.  Marty Mann will share information about the North Carolina Council on the Holocaust, an agency of the N.C. Department of Public Instruction which provides teacher workshops and educational resources across the state.