The American Corner organizes various programs for the Holocaust Remembrance Day that is held in MODEM on 28 May.
The American Corner Debrecen and the Embassy of the United States Budapest cordially invite you to the following programs:
Holocaust Remembrance Day: There Was Once…
2 PM | OPENING REMARKS
Karyn A. Posner-Mullen| Public Affairs Counselor| U.S. EMBASSY
Moderators
Dr. Tibor Glant| Head of the North American Department | University of Debrecen
Attila Lénárt-Muszka| Ph.D. student| University of Debrecen
2:20 PM | MOVIE SCREENING
THERE WAS ONCE…
Gabor Kalman’s Documentary Film About Hungarian Holocaust with Hungarian Subtitles
4:00 PM | REFRESHMENTS
4:20 PM | AN AFTERNOON WITH GABOR KALMAN FILMMAKER
Following the screening there will be a discussion with the director
5:30 PM | GUEST PERFORMANCE
HANA’S SUITCASE BY KAREN LEVINE performed by Ady Endre Secondary School Theater Studies Students in Hungarian
Ladányi Laura and Teremi Sára | directors
Ady Endre Secondary School 12 D |performers
6:00 PM | CLOSING REMARKS
The program is free and open to the public.
Szoboszlói Úti Primary School’s Project exhibition titled Lessons from Majdanek will be on display.
About the movie: There was Once tells the story of a Catholic school teacher, Gyöngyi Mago’s fight to have her town’s Jewish history officially acknowledged and to chart a new course of tolerance…
About the director: Gábor was only 10 years old in Kalocsa when the Nazis marched into Hungary and he was forced into hiding, his family fleeing to Budapest at one point and, coincidentally, living in the very same Széchenyi Rákpart building for years used by the US Embassy for diplomatic housing. Gábor survived the war, the Holocaust and Soviet occupation. His academic career was constantly interrupted by rapidly developing political events. As a university student he participated in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and subsequently fled Hungary for the United States. He received a bachelor’s degree in physiology from the University of California, Berkeley and a master’s degree in communications from Stanford University. He has produced and directed numerous award-winning documentary films, including Fifteen French Architects in Los Angeles, We Are All One People and Keepers of Memory: Stories of Hidden Children.
Movie website:
http://www.therewasoncefilm.com/filmmakers.html
