[CANCELED:] Screen/Society--Special Event-"Birthplace" docu screening + Q&A w/ Henryk Grynberg [4:15pm]

CANCELED DUE TO WEATHER: "Birthplace" (Pawel Lozinski, 1992, 47 min, Poland, in Polish w/ English subtitles, Color, DVD) / In "Birthplace" (1992) the poet, author, and Holocaust survivor Henryk Grynberg returns to the remote parts of Poland where he was born and where he and his family hid during the Second World War. Together with the filmmaker Pawel Lozinski, Grynberg delves into the past, confronting an array of bystanders and perpetrators, many of whom knew his family and vividly recall the injustices of the occupation. One by one Grynberg uncovers harsh truths about his brother's and father's fates. Relying on witness accounts and an astonishing series of interviews, Grynberg digs deeper and deeper, following the trail wherever it leads. Desmond Ryan of the Philadelphia Inquirer writes that the film "has a force and passion that fiction cannot aspire to." It is an unforgettable documentary. / -- Q&A to follow w/ the subject of the documentary, the award-winning author and survivor Henryk Grynberg! / About the guest speaker: Henryk Grynberg was born in Warsaw in 1936. He is a Polish-Jewish writer and a survivor of the Nazi occupation, having spent the years 1942 to 1944 in hiding. He is the author of more than thirty books of prose and poetry as well as two dramas. Works published in English include "Child of the Shadows" (Vallentine Mitchell, 1969), which was re-edited as "The Jewish War" and "The Victory" (Northwestern UP, 2001); Children of Zion (Northwestern UP, 1997)