Holocaust Remembrance Programming

During April, Austin PBS will be featuring a series of Holocaust Remembrance programs.

Monday, April 11
9:00 p.m Upheaval: The Journey of Menachem Begin
Menachem Begin is a proud yet scarred leader haunted by the Holocaust and decades of war, who struggles to balance history and heroism as he attempts to make peace with his greatest enemy and cement a legacy long misunderstood.

Tuesday, April 12
10:00 p.m Return to Auschwitz: The Survival of Vladimir Munk
This moving documentary focuses on the life of Czech Holocaust survivor and retired U.S. professor Vladimir Munk. The program follows Vladimir in 2020, at age 95, as he returned to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp, one of the camps where he was held prisoner during World War II. This trip was his last chance to honor 30 of his close relatives, including his parents who were murdered there.

Monday, April 25
10:30 p.m Murals of the Holocaust
For 20 years, students enrolled in Western Kentucky University's VAMPY program, a summer camp for Verbally and Mathematically Precocious Youth, have designed and created murals about the Holocaust. Watch as students work on the 2017 mural and explore Never Again, an exhibition of past murals at Louisville's Jewish Community Center.

Tuesday, April 26
7:00 p.m We Remember: Songs of Survivors
Holocaust survivors partner with songwriters to turn their life experiences into powerful music for a community concert. The resulting songs, filled with joy and healing, celebrate the extraordinary lives of this resilient generation.

Friday, April 29
10:00 p.m Big Sonia
In the last store in a defunct shopping mall, 91-year-old Sonia Warshawski-great-grandmother, businesswoman, and Holocaust survivor-runs the tailor shop she's owned for more than thirty years. But when she's served an eviction notice, the specter of retirement prompts Sonia to revisit her harrowing past as a refugee and witness to genocide. A poignant story of generational trauma and healing, BIG SONIA also offers a laugh-out-loud-funny portrait of the power of love to triumph over bigotry, and the power of truth-telling to heal us all.