Roman Catholic clerics give the Nazi salute at the fifth Catholic youth rally (Jugendtreffen) in the Berlin-Neukoelln stadium. Berlin, Germany, August 20, 1933. US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of bpk-Bildagentur
Decades after the horrors of the Holocaust, the debate still rages over the Vatican's action—or lack of them—in response to the rise of Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler's maniacal pursuit of the Final Solution.
Filmmaker Steven Pressman explores the topic in his documentary film HOLY SECRETS, The Vatican, the Americans and the Holocaust. Now Pressman joins the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in screening the film about the behind-the-scenes effort to persuade two different popes to exercise strong moral leadership and become voices of conscience throughout one of the darkest periods in modern history.
Speaker
Steven Pressman, Documentary Film Director and Producer, HOLY SECRETS, The Vatican, the Americans and the Holocaust. Pressman’s previous film, the Emmy-nominated 50 CHILDREN: THE RESCUE MISSION OF MR. AND MRS. KRAUS, premiered on HBO in 2013 and continues to be seen on television and in other screenings around the country.
Chairs
Renee and Joe Silberman
This program is free and open to the public but reservations are required. For more information, please contact the Museum’s Midwest Regional Office at 847.433.8099 or midwest@ushmm.org.