Special Screening of PROUD JEWISH BOY

Presented by Cinema Diverse Presented In Partnership with the Faith in Diversity coalition of Palm Springs faith communities.
About this Event

On November 7, 1938, 17-year-old Herschel Grynszpan shot Nazi diplomat Ernst vom Rath in Paris, providing the pretext for Kristallnacht. Acclaimed director Isri Halpern traces Herschel’s journey from poverty in Germany to his arrest and the Nazi show trial that never was
Combining rare interviews, archival footage, and illustrations, the film investigates the rumored homosexual relationship between the assassin and his victim. In Hebrew, English, German, French with English Subtitles

Following the film, commentary and discussion will be led by noted Holocaust scholar Scott Miller. Scott is a founding staff member at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, where he worked for 30 years. In 2001, Scott was appointed the Director of the Museum’s Benjamin and Vladka Meed Registry of Holocaust Survivors – the Museum’s names-information and tracing center. In 2006, he assumed the position of Director of Curatorial Affairs, overseeing the Museum’s archival, artifact, photo, film, music and oral history collections. Currently Scott is a consulting curator for the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust’s new core exhibition The Holocaust: What Hate Can Do, as well as for the National Library of Israel’s upcoming travelling exhibition Israel: Crossroads and Connections. Scott is also guest curator for the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education’s special exhibition Human Rights After the Holocaust.