SPEAKER of the MONTH: Filmmakers Carol Orwitz and Robert Petrillo.
TOPIC: A film: “U.S. Liberators’ Testimonies: Witnesses to the Nazi Concentration Camps.” (see additional description below)
Additional program notes:
This will be a 15-minute film dealing with the U.S. veterans of WW2. The two filmmakers are volunteer educators at the Esther Rabb Holocaust Museum and Goodwin Education Center housed in the Cherry Hill JCC. They will introduce the film and answer questions afterwards.
The Liberators were key witnesses to the camps, prisoner treatment, and conditions.