Screening of "Across the Waters" (2016)

Thursday, November 15, 2018 - 7:00 pm

This 94-minute drama (in Danish, with English subtitles) is the most recent film to tell the story of the rescue of the Jews of Denmark by their Danish countrymen, who helped them escape to Sweden and avoid deportation by the Nazi occupiers in October 1943.  

This film creening is the last in a three-part series organized by the UNI Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education and the Hearst Center for the Arts in conjunction with the exhibit "Rescue + Resistance: Photographys by Judy Ellis Glickman," to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the rescue of the Jews of Denmark in the fall of 1943.

This event is free and open to the public. "Across the Waters" will also be screened (free and open to the public) at 10 a.m. on Nov. 15 at the Hearst Center for the Arts.

Location: 
Hearst Center for the Arts, 304 West Seerley Blvd, Cedar Falls, IA
Contact Information
Name: 
Stephen J. Gaies
Phone: 
(319) 273-3870
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