Nov 9, 5 pm: A Film Screening in Memory of Kristallnacht

The German Program and the Jewish Studies program invite you to A Film Evening in Commemoration of the Reichsprogromnacht of November 8-9, 1938 (“Kristallnacht”) on November 9, 2023 at 5pm in Sproul 912. We will be screening Robert Thalheim’s Am Ende kommen Touristen/ And Along Come Tourists (2007, 1 hour, 25 minutes). Sandwiches will be served. Please find more information below, and we look forward to seeing you there.

Robert Thalheim’s film Am Ende kommen Touristen [And Along Come Tourists] explores affective legacies of guilt in relationship to German memory of the Holocaust. Written and directed by Thalheim, who did civilian service (Zivildienst) at the International Youth Meeting Center in Auschwitz, the fictional And Along Come Tourists explores the relationship that evolves between a Holocaust survivor and a young German doing civilian service at the former Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz.