(As seen in Jerusalem Post http://bit.ly/KbSPgv ) Remembering Wannsee By DANNY BEN-MOSHE LAST UPDATED: 01/18/2012 22:29 Seventy years ago, a 90-minute conference sealed the fate of millions of Jews. On January 20, 1942, the Nazi leadership gathered in a villa on the outskirts of Berlin and adopted the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question.” The Wannsee [...]
(As seen in Jerusalem Post http://bit.ly/LkSwge ) By DANNY BEN-MOSHE 11/02/2011 14:55 Recent developments suggest Holocaust remembrance has fallen by the wayside as a key element of Jewish Foreign Policy, at least as far as Lithuania is concerned. Holocaust remembrance is a central plank of Jewish Foreign Policy (JFP), a term that encompasses how Israel [...]
(As seen in Jerusalem Post – http://bit.ly/wbnkOm) By DANNY BEN-MOSHE 03/12/2012 21:33 The term contends that Europe experienced two genocides, the Soviet and the Nazi. The Israel-South Africa Chamber of Commerce is hosting as Guest of Honor Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Azubalis at a gala dinner. Given the current Lithuanian government’s policies towards the Holocaust, [...]
We are very excited to announce that due to overwhelming demand we have added an additional TWO screenings in association with the Sydney Jewish Museum. Thank you to all of you who have already bought your tickets. We look forward to meeting you! They will be held at the Sydney Jewish Museum 148 Darlinghurst Road Darlinghurst [...]
Next week an audience will file in to a sold out cinema near Sydney’s famous Bondi Beach for an exlusive preview screening of REWRITING HISTORY – held in association with the Sydney Jewish Museum. Every filmmaker is humbled when people are prepared to invest an evening of their time to see their film, but I [...]
“MEMORY AND HISTORY NEVER BELONG SOLELY IN THE PAST. THEY ARE CONTESTED IN THE HERE AND NOW, SHAPED BY POLITICS, PREJUDICE AND POWER.” - Jonathan Freedland, Guardian Newspaper January 2010 From the perspective of the Holocaust, the story of Lithuania is one of the worst – 95% of the Jewish population perished, many killed by the [...]
Thank you to all of those who have supported the film and pre-bought your tickets to the Melbourne Screening. This is a special preview screening for supporters of the film. The screening will take place on JUNE 28th. Where: Classic Cinemas, 9 Gordon St, Elsternwick When: 7pm – June 28th The screening will be followed [...]
The time has come! We are pleased to announce that an exclusive preview screening of REWRITING HISTORY will take place for all of our supporters at EVENT CINEMAS in BONDI JUNCTION at 7pm on MAY 14th. The screening is brought to you by The Sydney Jewish Musuem and will be followed by a Q & A with the director and producer of the film. If [...]
Dovid Katz and Danny-Ben Moshe have been working tirelessly to create the Seventy Years Declaration to mark the 70th anniversary of the Wansee Conference. Over 70 European Parliament members, including 8 Lithuanians, signed the declaration objecting to “attempts to obfuscate the Holocaust by diminishing its uniqueness and deeming it to be equal, similar or equivalent to Communism.” [...]
The crew has recently returned to Sydney from our next shoot in Lithuania. As ususal it was both inspiring and confronting. We are now fully engrossed in editing and pulling together all the pieces of this very complex story. Its coming together beautifully. With help from some very generous contributors, the Lithuanian and Yiddish interviews [...]
We all know how the physical genocide of European Jewry ended, in the gas chambers in places such as Auschwitz. But too few of us know how it began, in death pits such as those in non-descript village of Ponar 10 kilometres outside of Vilnius. It was at Ponar where mass killings by the Nazis [...]
Hi. I want to share with you an article published in a recent edition of the London “Jewish Chronicle” http://www.thejc.com/comment-and-debate/analysis/52369/lithuania-playing-a-worrying-holocaust-game The article provides a succinct and informative overview not only of the current state of anti-Semitic and Holocaust rewriting affairs in Lithuania today, but also how these are intricately tied to the infamous events of [...]
