On-Site Film Screening: “999: The Forgotten Girls of the Holocaust”
June 23 @ 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Join JCC Jewish Film Festival Chicago for a screening of “999: The Forgotten Girls of the Holocaust.” This documentary film shares the untold story of 999 unmarried young Jewish women, initially registered for government service in a purported shoe factory, only to be tragically sent to Auschwitz. Who were these young women? Why were they chosen? How did a handful survive over three years in the death camps? 94-year-old Edith Grosman — #1970 — and other Survivors reveal the truth of an almost completely ignored piece of women’s history: the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz.
Heather Dune Macadam, director and author of the international bestsellers “999-The Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz” and “Rena’s Promise: Two Sisters in Auschwitz,” has spent the past 11 years interviewing Survivors all over the world — only five of whom are still alive today. Digging through family and government archives, she unearthed ground-breaking research, revealing this never-before-told story. Told from a uniquely female perspective, this sorority of survival asks the poignant question: why were girls targeted first?
Reservations required: https://2024cjff.eventive.org/schedule/660b0133e28520005fcbdd91
Please call 847.763.3507 for more information.
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