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Film About Survival of Teenage Boys in Buchenwald Concentration Camp to be Screened at Ramapo College

(PDF) (DOC) (JPG)September 18, 2014

(MAHWAH, NJ) – Director Rob Cohen and Executive Producer Steven Moskovic will screen and lead a discussion of their film, Kinderblock 66, at Ramapo College of New Jersey on Tuesday, September 30 from 2 to 3:30 p.m. in the Trustees Pavilion. The College’s Gross Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Communication Arts’ Cinematheque Series are co-sponsors.

The film centers around four survivors, including Moskovic’s father, who survived the horrors of Kinderblock 66, a section of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp. The section was designated for the roughly 2,000 teenage boys and young men who were separated from their families and sent to the camp.

Video recordings from when the survivors returned for the 65th anniversary of Buchenwald’s liberation and archival footage provide a window into their ordeal and their lives before and after the Holocaust. The film also tells the remarkable story of the boys’ rescuer, Czech Communist political prisoner Antonin Kalina. He and his fellow prisoners helped to place the boys and young men in a special barrack, far away from the main part of Buchenwald.

The screening and presentation are free and open to the public. For more information or to reserve a seat, please call 201.684.7409.

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Ramapo College of New Jersey is the state’s premier public liberal arts college and is committed to academic excellence through interdisciplinary and experiential learning, and international and intercultural understanding. The comprehensive college is situated among the beautiful Ramapo Mountains, is within commuting distance to New York City, was named one of the 50 Most Beautiful College Campuses in America by CondeNast Traveler, and boasts the best on-campus housing in New Jersey per Niche.com. Established in 1969, Ramapo College offers bachelor’s degrees in the arts, business, data science, humanities, social sciences and the sciences, as well as in professional studies, which include business, education, nursing and social work. In addition, the College offers courses leading to teacher certification at the elementary and secondary levels, and offers graduate programs leading to master’s degrees in Accounting, Applied Mathematics, Business Administration, Contemporary Instructional Design, Computer Science, Creative Music Technology, Data Science, Educational Leadership, Nursing, Social Work and Special Education, as well as a Doctor of Nursing Practice.

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