16th annual Israeli and Jewish Film Festival in Richmond
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) -- The 16th annual Israeli and Jewish Film Festival will honor International Holocaust Remembrance Day at Weinstein JCC in Richmond with a film screening and discussion on Sunday. On Sunday, Jan. 26, the 16th annual Israeli and Jewish Film Festival will show the film "999: The Forgotten Girls" at Weinstein JCC, located at 5403 Monument Avenue, at 7 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 26 in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Monday, Jan. 27. 8News' weekday morning anchors Delaney Hall and Autumn Childress spoke with Leslie McGuigan, senior director of programs at Weinstein JCC, and Samuel Asher, president and executive director at the Virginia Holocaust Museum, to learn more about the film's screening. 8News anchors Delaney Hall and Autumn Childress speaking with Leslie McGuigan, senior director of programs at Weinstein JCC, and Samuel Asher, president and executive director at the Virginia Holocaust Museum, in an in-studio interview on Tuesday, Jan. 21. McGuigan said the film festival offers a variety of films for the community that center on Israeli and Jewish culture and history. According to the museum's website, the film "999: The Forgotten Girls" follows the story of nearly 1,000 Slovak Jewish women who were told by their government that they were embarking on a volunteer work assignment in March 1942, but were instead illegally deported to Auschwitz on what was the first Jewish transport to the Nazi death camp. "There were 999 young women, and most of them are deceased at this point in time, but there is someone in our community whose mother was one of the 999," McGuigan said when asked what the local tie of the film was to Richmond. A discussion with director, author and historian Heather Dune Macadam will be held after the film's screening. According to Weinstein JCC, Macadam's acclaimed book "999" was adapted into the documentary. Additionally, before the showing of "999: The Forgotten Girls" on Sunday, the film festival will show "Israel Swings for Gold" at 2 p.m. at the University of Richmond's Jepson Alumni Center, located at 442 Westhampton Way. According to Weinstein JCC's website, the film "Israel Swings for Gold" is about Israel's baseball team competing in the Olympics for the first time in 2021. With no media allowed in Tokyo’s Olympic Village, the players record their own experiences. To view all of the films featured in the 16th annual Israeli and Jewish Film Festival and purchase tickets, visit Weinstein JCC's website.
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RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) -- The 16th annual Israeli and Jewish Film Festival will honor International Holocaust Remembrance Day at Weinstein JCC in Richmond with a film screening and discussion on Sunday.
On Sunday, Jan. 26, the 16th annual Israeli and Jewish Film Festival will show the film "999: The Forgotten Girls" at Weinstein JCC, located at 5403 Monument Avenue, at 7 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 26 in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Monday, Jan. 27.
8News' weekday morning anchors Delaney Hall and Autumn Childress spoke with Leslie McGuigan, senior director of programs at Weinstein JCC, and Samuel Asher, president and executive director at the Virginia Holocaust Museum, to learn more about the film's screening.
8News anchors Delaney Hall and Autumn Childress speaking with Leslie McGuigan, senior director of programs at Weinstein JCC, and Samuel Asher, president and executive director at the Virginia Holocaust Museum, in an in-studio interview on Tuesday, Jan. 21.
McGuigan said the film festival offers a variety of films for the community that center on Israeli and Jewish culture and history.
According to the museum's website, the film "999: The Forgotten Girls" follows the story of nearly 1,000 Slovak Jewish women who were told by their government that they were embarking on a volunteer work assignment in March 1942, but were instead illegally deported to Auschwitz on what was the first Jewish transport to the Nazi death camp.
"There were 999 young women, and most of them are deceased at this point in time, but there is someone in our community whose mother was one of the 999," McGuigan said when asked what the local tie of the film was to Richmond.
A discussion with director, author and historian Heather Dune Macadam will be held after the film's screening. According to Weinstein JCC, Macadam's acclaimed book "999" was adapted into the documentary.
Additionally, before the showing of "999: The Forgotten Girls" on Sunday, the film festival will show "Israel Swings for Gold" at 2 p.m. at the University of Richmond's Jepson Alumni Center, located at 442 Westhampton Way.
According to Weinstein JCC's website, the film "Israel Swings for Gold" is about Israel's baseball team competing in the Olympics for the first time in 2021. With no media allowed in Tokyo’s Olympic Village, the players record their own experiences.
To view all of the films featured in the 16th annual Israeli and Jewish Film Festival and purchase tickets, visit Weinstein JCC's website.
