COJOT: A Powerful Documentary
When:
Thursday, February 6, 2020
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM CT
Where: Kresge Hall, The Forum, Rm 1-515, 1880 Campus Drive , Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Alexandra Gore
(847) 467-4408
Group: Holocaust Educational Foundation
Co-Sponsor:
The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Description:
Film screening and Q&A with Film Writer, Director, Producer, Boaz Dvir
Special guest, Lucas Cojot, a NU undergraduate student and Cojot’s grandson
Thursday, February 6, 2020
7:00pm
Kresge Hall, The Forum, Rm 1-515
Light snacks provided.
This powerful rough-cut documentary tells the virtually unknown story of a Holocaust survivor (Michel Cojot) who set out to kill his father’s Nazi executioner and ended up playing a key role in one of history’s most daring rescue operations (Entebbe, Uganda, 1976).
Co-sponsors: Department of German, Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies, Northwestern Hillel