Louis Posner Memorial Library
SUNDAYS @ THE CENTER
It is estimated that there were more than 100,000 Resistance fighters in Europe during the course of World War II who worked alongside the Allied forces to fight against a common enemy. This month, the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County has a marvelous exhibit about a beautiful, brave young female partisan who was part of the Resistance. Being a partisan in the forest was but one way to resist. Several others are described in the documentary: Heroes of the Holocaust: Tales of Resistance and Survival. Two of the stories are being shown at the Center on SUNDAY, JUNE 26 at 1:30 pm.
The first film: “The Angel of Bergen-Belsen,” is about the remarkable prisoner Luba Tryszynska who through her daring, intelligence, toughness and charm, beguiled: a kapo (the female dormitory guard), two Christian Russian male prisoners-of-war in the adjacent camp, and several German camp guards to allow her to shelter a group of children of Jewish diamond cutters slated for Auschwitz; and one guard even gathered the wood for her to keep them warm in the freezing winter. Luba appears in scenes and in current interviews.
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The second film: “Whatever happened to Raoul Wallenberg?” is about the remarkable hero and Righteous Gentile Raoul Wallenberg. It includes scenes from Nazi-occupied Hungary, including films of Wallenberg challenging high Nazi officers and devising ingenious schemes to save huge numbers of Jews whom he immediately makes Swedish citizens. But, after the war, on a comradely visit (he thought) to his Russian partners, he is arrested, imprisoned, disappears from view—permanently. Interviews with Swedish officials and Wallenberg’s family are interspersed in the wartime scenes.
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This disc, which also contains three docudramas about Resistance in Great Britain, in Belgium, and in France is available for a two-week loan, as are the library’s many books about Wallenberg and a children’s book about Luba Tryszynska.
