SURVIVING SKOKIE

SUNDAY, NOV. 19 • 4:15 | FILMMAKERS ELI ADLER & BLAIR GERSHKOW IN PERSON

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Thank you to our Community Partner JFCS Holocaust Center

Before Charlottesville there was Skokie…Filmmakers Eli Adler and Blair Gershkow will present and discuss a special screening of the powerful documentary they premiered at the 2015 Mill Valley Film Festival, where it was an Audience Favorite. The film focuses on Jack Adler, Eli’s father, a Polish immigrant and concentration camp survivor who built a life for his family in Skokie, Illinois. But the peaceful existence of hundreds of Holocaust survivors was threatened in 1978, when a neo-Nazi group announced a march through the Chicago suburb. Using the elder Adler’s first-person perspective and fascinating historical footage, the filmmakers explore how the community united in the face of the scars and memories that were suddenly exposed. Producers/Directors: Eli Adler, Blair Gershkow. (US 2015) 65 min. plus discussion.

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