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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum,
courtesy of Yad Vashem Photo Archives #11875
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Monday, April 1, 7 p.m.
Tuesday, April 2, 1 p.m.
While researching in the Museum’s archives,
filmmaker Christopher Ward
located a series of rare photographs that
illustrated an important event he wanted to include in his film Outwitting
Hitler, on the life story of a 17-year-old art student, Marian Pretzel,
who was living in Poland when World War II began. Pretzel used his skills
as an artist to forge Nazi documents that ultimately saved his life and
the lives of other European Jews. Initially incarcerated as a forced laborer
in a concentration camp, Pretzel escaped. Once free, he made his way to
Russia using his forged documents to procure a German paramilitary uniform.
He rode on trains with German soldiers and ate and slept in German barracks.
A discussion with the filmmaker and a Museum expert follows the screening.
(60 minutes, 2001)
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This film series is made possible by a grant from The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation.
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