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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum,
courtesy of George Kadish #10808
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Monday, March 25, 7 p.m.
Tuesday, March 26, 1 p.m.
In 1998, filmmaker Eileen Douglas discovered the book Hidden History of the Kovno Ghetto, which accompanied the Museum’s special exhibition of the same name. The book tells the story of the Lithuanian Jews whom the Nazis forced into the Kovno (Kaunas) ghetto when they occupied the Baltic states in 1941. Since Douglas’s grandfather was from Kovno, she was inspired to visit the Museum. That visit began a remarkable search for details of her family’s experience in Kovno during the Holocaust, portrayed in this short film she made.
A conversation with the filmmakers, Museum experts, and a representative from the Jewish
Genealogy Society of Greater Washington follows the screening.
(20 minutes, 2000; preceded by 20-minute slide presentation)
 film clips
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This film series is made possible by a grant from The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation.
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