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A CHILDRENS SONG & THE LAST MENTSCH

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A CHILDRENS SONG

Heartwarming nostalgiaWhen two students competing for a music scholarship discover that their original compositions are based on a single family song, both become determined to prove ownership, leading them to uncover the long lost true origin of the melody: a story of salvation and hope when over 20,000+ Jews emigrated to Shanghai during WWII.

Sponsor: Linda and Nathan Cohen
Introduction: Shayna Cohen, Director

U.S.A.
English/Chinese with English Subtitles
Director: Shayna Cohen
Feature: 28 Minutes

THE LAST MENTSCH

The cost of forgetting the past the power of remembering itWithout family, a synagogue or a single Jewish friend, Marcus, a hardened Holocaust survivor has so effectively created a new identity that, when faced with his own mortality, the rabbis refuse his appeal to be buried in a Jewish cemetery in Cologne. Determined to return to his birthplace and establish his ancestry, he enlists the help of a young Turkish woman with a troubled history of her own. The unlikely duo sets out on a journey that will irrevocably change them both.

Sponsor:
Introduction: Sharon Weissman, Retired Hospice Chaplin.

Germany/France/Switzerland
German with English Subtitles
Director: Pierre-Henry Salfati
Feature: 93 Minutes