Saviors In the Night
Saturday, March 6 • 08:00 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCC
New Jersey Premiere
Based on the memoir of 97 year old Marga Spiegel, this powerful World War II drama portrays how courageous farmers in Westphalia risked their lives to hide a German-Jewish family from deportation to the extermination camps in the East. Without reservation, the farmers offer the Spiegel family their protection and safe hiding for nearly three years at grave risk to themselves. Today, the names of Heinrich Aschoff, Hubert Pentrop, Bernhard Südfeld, Heinrich Silkenböhmer, and Bernhard Sickmann are immortalized at the Yad Vashem memorial in Israel.
Post Screening Discussion with Jessica E. Jacoby, MA, freelance film-journalist, historian and independent filmmaker, raised in West Berlin and member of the Jewish community of Berlin.
A Dessert Reception will follow the Opening Night Screening of Saviors in the Night.
Director: Ludi Boeken
Country: Germany, France
Year: 2009
Length: 95 minutes
Format: Beta Sp
Language: German, French, and English with English Subtitles