For The Living • Screening

For The Living

This screening will be attended by Producer Lisa Effress and a Q&A will follow the screening.

While registration is required, attendance to this event is FREE, thanks to the generosity our community partner Facing History and Ourselves.

Running Time: 117 minutes
Country: Poland
Language: English
Year: 2024

In January 1945, after 2 years as a prisoner in a death camp, 10-year-old Holocaust survivor Marcel Zielinksi embarked on a perilous 60-mile journey by foot from Auschwitz-Birkenau through an active war zone to Krakow, Poland. A child’s desperate search for any surviving family members. Decades later, 250 cyclists from 12 different countries traveled to Auschwitz and re-traced 84-year-old Marcel’s liberation path as a collective act of empathy called “Ride for the Living,” which was created by JCC Krakow. Marcel’s dehumanizing Holocaust experience and the empathy demonstrated during “Ride for the Living” provide a stunning parallel for humankind’s equally perilous journey between the two extremes of our nature: Dehumanization to Empathy.

Watch the trailer and register for tickets at www.jccmemphis.org/FilmFest

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