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Combatting Anti-Semitism Film Series: North American Premeire
Refusenik
Wednesday, April 9, 6:00 PM at MUSEUM OF HISTORY & INDUSTRY/MOHAI
Director(s): Laura Bialis
Country: United States
Year: 2007
Length: 112 MINUTES
Format: 35mm
Language: English/Russian/Hebrew
Special Guest(s) Information: Director Laura Bialis
Refusenik is the first retrospective documentary to chronicle the 30-year movement to free Soviet Jews. It shows how a small grassroots effort, bold enough to take on a Cold War superpower, blossomed into an international human-rights campaign. Told through the eyes of activists on both sides of the Iron Curtain - many of whom survived punishment in Soviet Gulag labor camps - the film weaves first-person accounts of heroism, sacrifice and ultimately liberation. Many of the photographs and covert film footage - some smuggled out of the Soviet Union - have never been seen before by audiences.
Topics: Anti-Semitism, Soviet Jews, Civil & Human Rights, Cold War, Israel, American History
Post-film Reception: This film was supported with a major grant from the Henry M. Jackson Foundation. Please join their Board of Governors as they host a special reception honoring the film director, Laura Bialis.
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Community Partners: Henry M. Jackson Foundation and Pacific Northwest Regional Office of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
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