“Once My Mother” documentary screening in Johannesburg
19.08.2022
To commemorate 23 August, the European Day for Remembrance of Victims of Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes, on behalf of the Polish Association of Siberian Deportees in Africa, the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Pretoria, we warmly invite you to a screening of “Once My Mother” documentary on Tuesday 23 August 2022 at 7pm at the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre.
When Australian filmmaker Sophia Turkiewicz was seven years old, her Polish mother, Helen abandoned her in an Adelaide orphanage. As Sophia examines her trouble relationship with Helen she discovers the story behind Helen’s miraculous wartime escape from a Siberian gulag, her subsequent survival against the odds. With Helen sliding into dementia, Sophia must confront her own demons and whether she can forgive.
Free admission, but due to the limited number of places, it is necessary to confirm participation by e-mail at dowi@jhbholocaust.co.za .
The trailer can be viewed on https://www.oncemymother.com.au/ .
The European Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Totalitarian Regimes was proclaimed by the European Parliament on September 23, 2008. The celebrations of this day were organized for the first time in 2011 in Warsaw. At that time, the "Warsaw Declaration" was signed, the signatories of which emphasized the need to keep in the memory of Europeans the criminal consequences of the actions of totalitarian regimes and called on the European Union to investigate and collect documentation related to these crimes. In the following years, ceremonies attended by EU justice ministers were held in Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
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