Holocaust Film Series - Winter/Spring 2007

Thursday, February 1, 2007 at 7:00 pm
First to Fight: The Black Tankers of WWII
A tribute to the late Floyd Dade
Co-sponsored by the Holocaust Center of Northern California, 761st Tank Battalion - VFW 8399, and the San Francisco African-American Historical & Cultural Society.

First to Fight offers a probing look at the plight of African-American soldiers during World War II. Includes interviews with veterans of the 761st Tank Battalion.

RSVP required by January 31 to Rachel Isquith at risquith@hcnc.org or 415.777.9060, extension 204. Film screening will be at the Holocaust Center of Northern California, 121 Steuart Street in San Francisco.

Thursday, March 1, 2007 at 7:00 pm
Sophie Scholl

A dramatization of the final days of Sophie Scholl, one of the most famous members of the German World War II anti-Nazi resistance movement, The White Rose.

RSVP required by February 28 to Rachel Isquith at risquith@hcnc.org or 415.777.9060, extension 204. Film screening will be at the Holocaust Center of Northern California, 121 Steuart Street in San Francisco.

Thursday, April 5, 2007 at 7:00 pm
Shanghai Ghetto

Shanghai Ghetto is a feature-length documentary that depicts Jewish life in Shanghai during WWII with interviews of survivors and historians, rare letters, stock footage, still photos, and footage shot in modern Shanghai where most of the Jewish Ghetto remains unchanged.

RSVP required by April 4 to Rachel Isquith at risquith@hcnc.org or 415.777.9060, extension 204. Film screening will be at the Holocaust Center of Northern California, 121 Steuart Street in San Francisco.

Thursday, May 3, 2007 at 7:00 pm
Gloomy Sunday

Set in Budapest during the ascension of the Third Reich and the onset of the Holocaust, this is the story of a beautiful restaurant hostess loved by three men: a Jewish restaurant owner, the young composer of the famous song "Gloomy Sunday," and an SS colonel.

RSVP required by May 2 to Rachel Isquith at risquith@hcnc.org or 415.777.9060, extension 204. Film screening will be at the Holocaust Center of Northern California, 121 Steuart Street in San Francisco.

Thursday, June 7, 2007 at 7:00 pm
Paragraph 175

Award-winning documentary film about the Nazi party’s persecution, arrest and imprisonment of 100,000 homosexual men from 1933-1945.

Co-sponsored with the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Alliance of the SF Jewish Community Federation, the Jewish Community Relations Council and Congregation Sha'ar Zahav..

RSVP required by June 6 to Rachel Isquith at risquith@hcnc.org or 415.777.9060, extension 204. Film screening will be at the Holocaust Center of Northern California, 121 Steuart Street in San Francisco.