Mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day at The Vilna Shul with a screening of the award-winning film “Remember This,” the story of Polish diplomat-warrior Jan Karski, paired with the music of Polish Jewish composer Miecyzslaw Weinberg. Facing History and Ourselves will host the post-screening conversation.
About “Remember This”
In a virtuoso solo performance, Academy Award-nominee David Strathairn (“Nomadland,” “Good Night, and Good Luck,” “Lincoln”) portrays Jan Karski in this genre-defying true story of a reluctant World War II hero and Holocaust witness. After surviving the devastation of the Blitzkrieg, Karski swears allegiance to the Polish Underground and risks his life to carry the first eyewitness reports of war-torn Poland to the Western world, and ultimately, the Oval Office.
Escaping a Gestapo prison, bearing witness to the despair of the Warsaw ghetto and confronted by the inhumanity of a death camp, Karski endures unspeakable mental anguish and physical torture to stand tall in the halls of power and speak the truth. Strathairn captures the complexity and legacy of this self-described “insignificant, little man” whose timely story of moral courage and individual responsibility can still shake the conscience of the world.
About Miecyzslaw Weinberg
The music of Mieczysław Weinberg (1919 -1996) is among some of the 20th century’s greatest hidden treasures. Born in Poland, Weinberg emigrated to Russia in perilous circumstances, where he was to live out the rest of his days half-way between deserved fame and unjustified neglect. Often seen in the shadow of his close friend Dimitry Shostakovich, by whom he was regarded as one of the most outstanding composers of the day, Weinberg is slowly being rediscovered as a 20th-century genius, a figure of immense significance in the landscape of post-modern classical music.
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