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Holocaust Documentary Film Premiere at Rider

PREMIERE OF  A  NEW  DOCUMENTARY  FILM

 

A new film about two young girls, one a Polish Catholic and the other a German Jew, born in the same year, in two different countries, two different faiths and traditions, who survived the Holocaust of WW II. They survived deportation, labor camps, concentration camps, starvation, disease and isolation. Despite their dramatically different traditions and circumstances, they shared a common trauma -- the fear of being a child in wartime.

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Dr. Shawn Kildea, an assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at Rider University, produced the film. It is based on the book, Children of Terror, co-authored by Bozenna Urbanowicz Gilbride and Inge Auerbacher, and will be shown for the first time at:

 

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Rider University

Bart Luedeke Center Theater

2083 Lawrenceville Road

Lawrenceville, N. J, 08648

February 9, 2012

6:30 P.M.

Both authors, Bozenna Urbanowicz Gilbride and Inge Auerbacher, will be present for a discussion and book signing. Admission is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. Please RSVP by January 31 at 609-896-5209 or kildeam@rider.edu.

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