Teicholz Film Series: The Auschwitz Report

This is the true story of Freddy and Walter – two young Slovak Jews, who were deported to Auschwitz in 1942. On 10 April 1944, after meticulous planning and with the help and the resilience of their inmates, they manage to escape. Once emancipated, they compile a detailed report about the systematic genocide at the camp. However, with Nazi propaganda and international liaisons still in place, their account seems to be too harrowing to believe.

This program will feature a post-screening conversation and Q&A with journalist Tom Teicholz and Holli Levitsky, the founder and director of the Jewish Studies Program and Professor of English at Loyola Marymount University. She has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United State Holocaust Memorial Museum, a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Literature in Poland, a Schusterman Fellow at the Summer Institute for Israel Studies, and the Florida International University Exile Studies Writer-in-Residence. She works primarily in the areas of Jewish American literature, Holocaust studies and Exile studies, and has published dozens of articles, book chapters, and essays in these areas. Most recently, she is the co-editor of two volumes, The Literature of Exile and Displacement: American Identity in a Time of Crisis (2016) and Summer Haven: The Catskills, the Holocaust and the Literary Imagination (2015).

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