FRONTLINE - A Jew Among the Germans

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FRONTLINE - A Jew Among the Germans - Tuesday, May 31, 2005 at 9.00 pm (WGBH 2) on PBS


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- This Week: "A Jew Among the Germans" (60min.),
Tuesday, May 31, 2005 at 9.00 pm (WGBH 2) on PBS
- Inside FRONTLINE: Guilt and reconciliation in "the land of the
enemy"
- Live Discussion: Chat with producer Marian Marzynski this Wed. at 11
am ET

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+ This week

Over the years, producer, director and writer Marian Marzynski has
looked back in time to explore some of the history of the Holocaust and the Polish-Jewish community in films such as "Return to Poland" and "Shetl." While most of his family was killed, Marzynski's own survival as a child in Warsaw during the war, happened by chance. It's just one of the surprising stories you'll find in this week's program, "A Jew Among the Germans."

In this film Marznyski's puts his personal history in service of a
larger quest. He is looking for an answer to a provocative question:
How will the Holocaust be remembered and memorialized by a younger
generation? He told me he got the idea several years ago when he
wondered how his own children would come to see their German
counterparts in the years ahead. The building of a memorial in Berlin
"for the murdered Jews of Europe," unveiled earlier this month,
provided him with an excuse to go back and forth from his Chicago home to Germany while the memorial took shape. He took the opportunity to explore a generational conflict in a country that he had always avoided. And as he says in the film, he wanted to achieve what his lost relatives could not, "to feel safe among the Germans."

Since World War II other examples of monstrous evil have befallen
peoples in Africa and Asia, and so there is a universal quality to the
hard questions about guilt and reconciliation, about memory and
memorials. Should a young generation feel guilty for the crimes of an
older one? Can memory be institutionalized in monuments and in art? And what about individual expressions? There are young Germans today who travel to New York City and Israel to help take care of sick and dying Holocaust survivors, an example of the power of guilt and the
persistence of memory. The story of these young Germans will be
published on our web site along with much more about the issues
Marzynski explores in this film.

So we hope you will join us this Tuesday night for "A Jew Among the
Germans," and after watching, visit the web site to view the program
again online and to express your opinion at
http://www.pbs.org/frontline/shows/germans/


Louis Wiley Jr.
Executive Editor

This program will be rebroadcast at the following time(s):
Wednesday, Jun. 1, 2005 at 5.00 am (WGBH 2)
Wednesday, Jun. 1, 2005 at 10.00 pm (WGBH 44)


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+ Live Online Discussion on Washingtonpost.com ...

Producer Marian Marzynski will be online this Wednesday, June 1, at
11am ET, to discuss "A Jew Among the Germans"

For details, see:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2005/05/26/DI2005052600927.html

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