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UK Jewish Film Festival

Wed, Nov 13

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JW3

The UK Premiere of 999 The Forgotten Girls

UK Jewish Film Festival
UK Jewish Film Festival

Time & Location

Nov 13, 2024, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM GMT

JW3, 341-351 Finchley Rd, London NW3 6ET, UK

About the event

Based on a best-selling book by the director, who spent 11 years interviewing survivors around the world, this fascinating documentary focuses on a rarely told aspect of the Holocaust. The film is the story of 999 unmarried and young Slovakian Jewish women who had been obliged by the antisemitic Slovakian government to register to work in Germany in 1942, but ended up being the first Jewish women to arrive at Auschwitz. It features powerful testimony from survivors of the group, photographs, film footage and numerous music excerpts — including some Slovakian folk and Jewish songs. Revealing so much about life (and death) in Auschwitz, this is a moving, powerful and impressive historic document about survival against all odds, despite unimaginable conditions.

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