© Copyright 2019 The Blueprint, All Rights Reserved Worldwide
Wednesday, June 26, 2019 - 7:00pm
When the Nazis passed the Nuremberg Laws in 1935, Fredy Hirsch was 19 years old, a German Jew — and openly gay. He was deported to the Terezín Ghetto and then Auschwitz. In Auschwitz, he set up a day care center, where he was much admired, and remained fully out. Rubi Gat’s "Dear Fredy" tells the story of Hirsch’s remarkable life and mysterious death — which happened on the eve of a revolt that never came to pass.
The film will be followed by a post-screening discussion with Michael Simonson (Head of Public Outreach and Archivist at the Leo Baeck Institute).
This film co-presented with the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference), as part of a series that advances our joint efforts to preserve the memory of the Holocaust.
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, presented with the Stonewall 50 Consortium.
