Sobibor, 14 octobre 1943, 16 heures
8 maart om 14:00u - 17.00u in Filmtheater Kriterion te Amsterdam, Reservations: +31 (0)20 6231 708
R: Claude Lanzmann (2001)
Hebreeuws/Frans gesproken, Engels ondertiteld
Prof. Dr. Frank van Vree houdt een inleiding. Na de film is er een gesprek met medewerking van o.a. Frank van der Elst, secretaris van de Stichting Sobibor. Inleiding en discussie zijn in het Engels.
Location Cinema Kriterion, Roeterstraat 170
Watch Movie Sobibor by Claude Lanzmann
14.00 – 14.30 Introduction by Prof. dr. Frank van Vree.
Professor Van Vree is historian and Professor of Journalism & Culture at the University of Amsterdam. His publications include a study on the memory of the Second World War, In de schaduw van Auschwitz. Herinneringen, beelden, geschiedenis (In the Shadow of Auschwitz, Memories, Images and History, 1995), books and articles on the history of Dutch media and journalism as well as a number of essays and articles in the field of historical representation, historical culture and cultural. Frank van Vree will be introduced by Emma Herman, senior fellow.
14.30 – 16.00 Watch movie Sobibor, 14 octobre 1943, 16 heures by Claud Lanzmann (Paris 1925)
Lanzmann’s most renowned work is the nine-and-a-half hour documentary film Shoah (1985), which is an oral history of the Holocaust and is broadly considered to be the foremost film on the subject. Of particular note is that Shoah is made without the use of any documentary footage, and only reference to first-person testimony from victims, bystanders and perpetrators. The material for the movie ‘Sobibor’ was shot as part of the Shoah-project. Lanzmann later decide to take the topic of the escape from Sobibor out of the Shoah film and edit the material as a separate movie.
16.00 – 17.00 Q & A with Dr. Dienke Hondius and Frank van der Elst
Historian Dr. Dienke Hondius is board member of HIA in The Netherlands. She is well known for her research on WWII and on the history of race and racism in The Netherlands. Her publications include the book “Return: Holocaust Survivors and Dutch Anti-Semitism”. She works for the Vrije Univesiteit in Amsterdam, the University of Utrecht and the Anne Frank Foundation. Frank van der Elst is affiliated with the Sobibor Foundation. He wrote his MA thesis on the history of campsites in Poland after WWII. Anna Timmerman, historian and director of Humanity in Action Nederland, will chair the discussion.
Organisation Filmtheater Kriterion and Humanity in Action