UMD Holocaust Committee to Examine the Issue of Reparations

Reckonings Film Poster

In the wake of the Second World War, the international community was reeling from the scale of destruction, violence and loss wrought by the war. One of the lingering questions was how to provide for struggling Holocaust survivors who had lost their homes, their families, and, in many cases, their health.

 

The film Reckonings chronicles the history of the first-ever reparations program designed to provide funds for individual survivors of genocide. Specifically, the film highlights the complicated and fraught discussions and deliberations between the West German government, the State of Israel, and the international Jewish community in the 1950s that culminated in the creation of the reparation program. Join the Baeumler-Kaplan Holocaust Commemoration Committee for a screening & discussion of Reckonings on Wednesday, February 1, at 6:00 PM in Solon Campus Center 120. 

On February 23, the committee will host a follow-up event titled "Reckonings, Reparations, Restoration" not only for Jewish victims of the Holocaust but for African Americans and Native Americans as well. 

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