Screening of the documentary film INTO THE NORTH
22.11.2017 / 10:30 | Aktualizováno: 30.04.2019 / 13:28
Screening of the documentary film "Into the North" and a discussion with its author, Judita Matyášová, a Czech journalist and writer, was held in the premises of the Paideia Institute on November 20, 2017. The screening of the film was initiated by the director of the Paideia Institute Prof. Fania Oz-Salzberger and Ambassador Jiří Šitler.
Judita Matyášová, a Czech journalist and writer, presented the fate of 80 Czechoslovak Jewish teens who left Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia and went to Denmark in the fall of 1939. They lived in foster families, spending four years in Denmark and hoping to come to Palestine. In 1943, they had to flee to Sweden, where some of them stayed until the end of the war. Their paths split, to be reunited only after 70 years. The publicist Judita Matyášová has traced these 90-year old witnesses across Europe and abroad.
The film was presented in cooperation with the Czech Embassy in Stockholm & the Czech Centre, the Jewish Assembly in Stockholm and Bajit.
Into the North - Judita Matyášová, Ambassador Jiří Šitler and Prof. Fania Oz-Salzberger.