Film screening planned at Ware Center

As part of its On Screen/In Person series, the Arts at Millersville University, in partnership with the Millersville University (MU) Holocaust and Genocide Conference, will screen the documentary "Kaddish" on Tuesday, April 22, at the Ware Center, 42 N. Prince St., Lancaster. The event will include a pre-show community panel discussion at 6:15 p.m., a film screening at 7 p.m., and a post-show question-and-answer session with the film's director and producer, Steve Brand. The man featured in the film, Yossi Klein Halevi, will be the keynote speaker at this year's MU Holocaust and Genocide Conference.

"Kaddish" is a candid portrait of a young Jewish man coming to terms with his father's traumatic history. It is the story of the stormy yet loving relationship between writer and Jewish activist Yossi Klein and his father, Zoltan, who survived the Holocaust's decimation of Hungarian Jews by hiding in a hole in the ground for six months while his parents perished at Auschwitz. In making the film, Brand used interviews, period footage, and home movies of the Kleins.

The panelists for the discussion will be Jack Fischel, MU emeritus professor of history and founder of the MU Holocaust and Genocide Conference; Victoria Khiterer, MU professor of history and co-chair of the MU Holocaust and Genocide Conference; Julia Fallows, MU senior in secondary English education; Rabbi Jack Paskoff of Congregation Shaarai Shomayim; and Dr. Jeff Mufson, psychiatrist.

Tickets are free but are required for entry. To reserve tickets, visit http://www.artsmu.com, call 717-871-7600, or stop by the Ware Center or the Student Memorial Center box office on the MU campus.

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