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<\/p>\nË¿¹ÏÊÓƵAPP will present a special screening of \u201cBig Sonia,\u201d the award-winning documentary that tells the story of one of the last remaining Holocaust survivors in Kansas City, Sonia Warshawski. The event takes place at 7 p.m. on February 24, 2020, in the Auditorium.<\/p>\n
Following the film screening, there will be a Q&A with Sonia\u2019s daughter, Debbie Warshawski.<\/p>\n
Standing tall at 4\u20198\u2033, Sonia\u2019s enormous personality and fragile frame mask the horrors she endured. At 15, she watched her mother disappear behind gas chamber doors. Sonia\u2019s teenage years were a blur of concentration camps and death marches. On liberation day, she was accidentally shot through the chest, yet again miraculously survived. Sonia is the ultimate survivor, a bridge between cultures and generations.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs time passes and the survivors of the Shoah die, we need to continue to witness against anti-Semitism in our own country and throughout the globe and what it can lead to \u2014 that is the Holocaust and other kinds of \u00a0discrimination which is often hidden or ignored,\u201d said Germaine Murray, professor of English.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThrough documentary films such as ‘Big Sonia,’ educators and filmmakers can continue to educate and inform audiences about the horrors of the Holocaust and those who survived it to help build up culture and society,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The special screening of \u201cBig Sonia\u201d is presented by Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵAPPTalks Movies, the Medart Lecture Series and Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵAPP Hillel.<\/p>\n
The event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n
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