The Yom Hashoah Film Project
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The Yom Hashoah Film Project

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TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 2003 6:00 PM
at The Center for Maine History, 489 Congress Street, Portland
Free Screening
"MY KNEES WERE JUMPING:
REMEMBERING THE KINDERTRANSPORTS"

Director Melissa Hacker has been invited to discuss her film immediately following the screening.

Seating for the program is limited and will be on a first-come first-served basis beginning at 5:30 PM. We cannot accept reservations for this program.

"My Knees Were Jumping: Remembering the Kindertransports", directed by Melissa Hacker, tells the story of the Kindertransports, conceived by British Jews and Quakers, which saved 9,354 German, Czech, Polish and Austrian children, including Jews, Gypsies, and others. Most of the children never saw their parents again. The filmmaker has lifelong, intimate knowledge of this story, as her mother was one of the children rescued from Vienna by the Kindertransport movement in January 1939. The film was an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival. For more about the film, click here.

Filmmaker Melissa Hacker grew up on feature film sets watching her mother work as a costume designer, (Ruth Morley designed costumes for Miracle Worker, Taxi Driver, Annie Hall, Tootsie, and many other classic American films) learned much on every documentary film she worked on, and has long felt compelled to make this film, which is her directorial debut. Melissa's latest work as editor for the film "The Collector of Bedford Street" earned an Oscar nomination in 2002.

About the Maine Jewish Film Festival's Yom Hashoah Film Project:
The Maine Jewish Film Festival is proud to announce our newest program -- The Yom Hashoah Film Project. The goal of the Project is to capitalize on the power of film to tell the stories that we must keep telling, as we honor Holocaust survivors and their families and remember the millions lost.

Program Sponsors:
The Yom Hashoah Film Project is sponsored by David Arenstam and DMA Associates, the Community Relations Council of the Jewish Community Alliance of Southern Maine, Congregation Bet Ha'am, Etz Chaim Synagogue, Sha'arey Tphiloh Synagogue, Chabad of Maine and Temple Beth El with help from the City of Portland, and The Holocaust Human Rights Center of Maine.

Directions to The Center for Maine History:
You can find the Maine Historical Society campus in the heart of Portland's cultural corridor. Exit I-295 at Exit 7, Franklin Street. Turn right at the top of the hill onto Congress Street. Proceed past Portland City Hall and the Portland Public Library; the Maine Historical Society will be on your right, between Preble and Brown Streets.

Parking:
The Center for Maine History's parking lot on Brown Street is free and will be open for the Yom Hashoah program.

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