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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.

Discount code: NMAJM2

Synopsis: Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello residence stands as a complex and paradoxical symbol of democracy. Designed by Jefferson, built and tended by enslaved people, the palatial Virginia plantation was presidential retreat, retirement home, and Jefferson’s final resting place.

After it was sold due to mounting debts, Uriah Phillips Levy—a Jewish naval officer and fervent believer in Jeffersonian ideals—became its unlikely owner, restoring and saving the estate from ruin with the help of his family. The story behind this national treasure confronts the racism and anti-Semitism that remain part of the national narrative.

Trailer: https://youtu.be/G0cC8U_ei1A

Discount code: NMAJM2

Synopsis: Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello residence stands as a complex and paradoxical symbol of democracy. Designed by Jefferson, built and tended by enslaved people, the palatial Virginia plantation was presidential retreat, retirement home, and Jefferson’s final resting place.

After it was sold due to mounting debts, Uriah Phillips Levy—a Jewish naval officer and fervent believer in Jeffersonian ideals—became its unlikely owner, restoring and saving the estate from ruin with the help of his family. The story behind this national treasure confronts the racism and anti-Semitism that remain part of the national narrative.

Trailer: https://youtu.be/G0cC8U_ei1A