Special Screening of The Tattoo Torah
THE TATTOOED TORAH Over the last three decades, the beloved children’s book by Marvell Ginsburg, The Tattooed Torah, has been a powerful resource for Holocaust education. The book recounts the true story of the rescue and restoration of a small Torah from Brno, Czechoslovakia. The film brings illustrator Martin Lemelman’s rich artwork to life and will allow this story to reach a much broader audience all over the world. Along with the screening, Marc will give a presentation about how a gift of art changed his life and led him on a creative journey. Link to our page on USC Shoah Foundation's IWITNESS website with the trailer, full film (21 mins), and the educational curriculum to be used with the film by teachers (In English and Spanish) (Subtitled in: Arabic, Czech, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Polish, Russian and English for the deaf and hard of hearing) https://iwitness.usc.edu/sites/tattooedtorah [https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fiwitness.usc.edu%2Fsites%2Ftattooedtorah&data=05%7C02%7CExecAssistant%40hdec.org%7Cbc9759132e70424d4bad08dd88b8cf69%7C3aecfa6c8a1f43f4bd97ac24e9ea5ec0%7C0%7C0%7C638817049737876945%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=kBSf%2B5qeSVCTF0S4qjr%2BXT74%2BiQVXrF6aGW4uvvxzEE%3D&reserved=0] IWitness is an award-winning educational website which fosters empathy, understanding and respect through the compelling primary source narratives in USC Shoah Foundation’s archive of audiovisual testimonies. By engaging students with first-person stories from survivors and witnesses of genocide, IWitness makes classroom subjects personal, offering a historic lens into contemporary issues—at no cost to educators. Marc Bennett has spent his adult life creating powerful imagery and stories in both print and film. As an artist and photographer, his work has been shown in exhibitions throughout the United States and is a part of many public and private collections, including Yad Vashem, Holocaust Museum LA, the Museum of Tolerance, the California Afro-American Museum, and the Martin Luther King Jr. Foundation. As a director, he has helmed multiple feature films, documentaries, and music videos. His credits include the feature film Should’ve Been Romeo, the documentaries Life Matters, A Journey of Hope and Survival, and the award-winning Hot Flash Havoc, narrated by Goldie Hawn. Marc recently directed the animated short film The Tattooed Torah, based on the renowned children’s book about The Holocaust. The film has been an official selection of over 50 film festivals worldwide, winning numerous awards, including Best Animated Short and Best Adaptation. Marc just completed co-directing the feature documentary For the Living with Tim Roper and producer Lisa Effress to spark an urgent conversation about how our innate human empathy might be the key to disrupting an uncontrollable wave of dehumanization worldwide. The same dehumanization which invariably led to a centuries-long pattern of the worst crime imaginable: Genocide.
