Centro Sefarad-Israel and Casa de América are joining forces once again this year to present the Holocaust Remembrance Month film exhibition, entitled Holocaust and Childhood, as part of the programme of activities organised as part of the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust. In addition, on this occasion the exhibition is also supported by the Polish Embassy.
It is estimated that approximately 1.5 million children were killed during the Shoah. The experiences of the children who suffered the Holocaust have had a lasting effect on them throughout their lives and have marked the existence of millions of people who, although they survived the Holocaust, were and are victims of Nazism. Those years traumatised the lives of fathers, mothers, children, grandchildren and grandparents, the relationships between them and the emotional bonds they created.
That is why this film proposal also reflects on a not minor issue: the emotional management carried out by the descendants of the perpetrators when the past comes to light. The selected films bear witness to this multiplicity of viewpoints. Their points of view make us reflect on the unreasonableness of the barbarity carried out by the Nazis and warn against intolerance and anti-Semitism, which still remain in our society today.
On this occasion, the film La ladrona de libros (The Book Thief) will be screened this evening at 18.30 in Casa América’s Sala Iberia. This film tells the story of a spirited and courageous young girl named Liesel, who transforms the lives of everyone around her when she is sent to live with a foster family in World War II Germany. For Liesel, the power of words and imagination becomes a way to escape the tumultuous events that surround her and all the people she knows and loves. Tickets will be distributed at the Information Point one hour before the start of the screening.
