When: 2012-03-02 14:00 - 2012-03-02 15:30
Where: American center, Tržiště 13, Praha 1
Entry fee:
Free of charge
America and the Holocaust uses the moving tale of Klein’s struggles against a wall of bureaucracy to free his parents to explore the complex social and political factors that led the American government to turn its back on the plight of the Jews.
In 1937, a 17-year-old German Jew named Kurt Klein emigrated to the US to escape the growing discrimination against Jews that had become a terrible fact of life following Hitler’s rise in 1933. Together with his brother and sister, who had emigrated previously, Klein worked to establish himself so that he could obtain safe passage for his parents out of Germany. The film is produced by Martin Ostrow.
Screening in English.