JXJ Film Screening: Picking Up The Pieces
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May 15, 2022
Discount code: NMAJM2
PICKING UP THE PIECES
Tickets and information: https://www.jxjdc.org/events/picking-up-the-pieces/
Screening:
Sunday, May 15 11AM at Edlavitch DCJCC
*15 minutes of work-in-progress screening followed by a 45 minute conversation with: Director Aviva Kempner, Editor Lucia Fox Shapiro, niece Delaney Kempner, and Professor Emanuel Thorne.
Synopsis: Picking Up the Pieces is the story of director Aviva Kempner’s mother, Hanka Ciesla, who survived the Holocaust as a Polish Catholic and her uncle, Dudek Ciesla, who survived Auschwitz. After liberation, they miraculously found each other in Berlin.
American Jewish military journalist Harold Kempner witnessed and wrote about their reunion, and eventually fell in love with and married Hanka. The film depicts how the survivors rebuilt their lives and how their descendants felt the need to share their stories.