The Charlotte Jewish Film Festival Presents For The Living

In January 1945, after 2 years as a prisoner in a death camp, 10-year-old Holocaust survivor Marcel Zielinksi embarked on a perilous 60-mile journey by foot from Auschwitz-Birkenau through an active war zone to Krakow, Poland. A child's desperate search for any surviving family members. A journey from Darkness to Light. Decades later, 250 cyclists from 12 different countries traveled to Auschwitz and re-traced 84-year-old Marcel's liberation path as a collective act of empathy called "Ride for the Living," which was created by JCC Krakow. Marcel's dehumanizing Holocaust experience and the empathy demonstrated during "Ride for the Living" provide a stunning parallel for Humankind's equally perilous journey between the two extremes of our nature: Dehumanization to Empathy. Darkness to Light. Igniting the urgent conversation: When will we stop building monuments for the dead and get busy re-humanizing the living? When will we finally say NEVER AGAIN and truly mean it.

This special event will include the film’s Producer Lisa Effress and Executive Director of the Krakow JCC, Jonathan Ornstein for a discussion and Q & A after the film

Price:  Free