When Mansour Omari was released from prison in Syria, he smuggled out these scraps of cloth sewn within the shirt he was wearing. The names of his cellmates are written on them with an ink made from blood and rust. US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Join us for a screening of 82 Names: Syria, Please Don't Forget Us, a documentary film that traces the journey of Mansour Omari, a survivor of torture and imprisonment in Syria. As Omari seeks to rebuild his life in exile and visits sites in Germany that memorialize the victims of the Holocaust, he reflects on how to bring attention to the brutal regime he escaped—and counter extremist ideology in the future. 82 Names is a powerful story of how one man risked his life to document atrocity crimes and bring that evidence to the world.
82 Names: Syria, Please Don't Forget Us is a co-production of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Maziar Bahari. A discussion will follow the screening.
Speakers
Rafif Jouejati, Co-Founder and Director, FREE-Syria
Mina Abdelmalak, Arabic Audience Outreach Specialist, Initiative on Holocaust Denial and Antisemitism, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum