Ithaca College

 Wednesday, March 29th 7:00 pm, Textor Hall 102

Discussion: Director Yonatan Nir and Dr. Michael Richardson, Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and 20th and 21st century German literature and cinema, Holocaust Studies

Wilfrid Israel, the owner of a department store in the center of Berlin, was one of the great saviors of Jews during the Holocaust ​ and played a key role in the Kindertransport operation. The story of one extraordinary man becomes very personal as filmmaker Yonatan Nir takes us on a journey from ​ a​ kibbutz in northern Israel to Germany in the 1930's. The filmmaker, who was born on the kibbutz where Wilfrid's name was known but his story​ ​was kept secret​, takes us on an adventure as he searches for the mysterious hero, and for the reasons​ for his disappearance ​from history.

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