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Attempting to better understand her grandfather Avrom Sutzkever, Israeli actress Hadas Kalderon travels to Lithuania, using her grandfather’s diary to trace his early life in Vilna and his survival of the Holocaust. Sutzkever was an acclaimed Yiddish poet whose verse drew on his youth in Siberia and Vilna, his spiritual and material resistance during World War II, and his post-war life in the State of Israel.

(Christa P. Whitney and Emily Felder, Lithuania, Israel, Germany, Yiddish w/Eng sub, 60 min, 2021, Digital)

Presented by the Sam and Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies