and the Jewish Federation of Dutchess County
will host a documentary film screening
and discussion of
NUREMBERG: ITS LESSON FOR TODAY
[The Schulberg/Waletzky Restoration]
with film producer Sandra Schulberg
in honor of Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Memorial Day)
Wednesday, May 1, 2019 at 2:00 p.m.
Henry A. Wallace Center at the
FDR Presidential Library and Home
HYDE PARK, NY -- The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum and the Jewish Federation of Dutchess County will host a documentary film screening and discussion of
NUREMBERG: ITS LESSON FOR TODAY [The Schulberg/Waletzky Restoration] with film producer Sandra Schulberg on Wednesday, May 1, 2019 at 2:00 p.m. The screening will be held in the Henry A. Wallace Center at the FDR Presidential Library and Home. This is a Morgenthau Holocaust Collections program in honor of Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Memorial Day).
This is a free public event but registration is required.
Synopsis:
One of the greatest courtroom dramas in history,
NUREMBERG: ITS LESSON FOR TODAY [The Schulberg/Waletzky Restoration] shows how the international prosecutors built their case against the top Nazi war criminals using the Nazis' own films and records. The trial established the "Nuremberg principles," laying the foundation for all subsequent trials for crimes against the peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
This is the official U.S. government's film about the trial, made for the War Department & U.S. Military Government by Stuart Schulberg -- writer-director designate of Pare Lorentz, Chief of the Film, Theater, Music Section of the War Department's Civil Affairs Division and a veteran of John Ford's OSS War Crimes film team. Though it was distributed in Germany in 1948 and 1949 as part of the U.S. denazification campaign, its release to American theaters and other countries was canceled due to political concerns.
Over the years, the original picture and sound elements were lost in the vast National Archives. Filmmakers Sandra Schulberg and Josh Waletzky created a new 35mm negative (made from the German Bundesarchiv's best "lavender print") and re-constructed the soundtrack using original sound from the trial. The Schulberg/Waletzky restoration allows audiences to hear Justice Robert H. Jackson's famous opening and closing statements to the Tribunal, and the testimony from the German defendants and their defense attorneys -- all in their own voices -- as well as bits of the English, Russian and French prosecutors. Now, more than 60 years later, the newly-restored film can be seen around the world for the first time. The film ends with Justice Jackson's stirring words: "Let Nuremberg stand as a warning to all who plan and wage aggressive war."
This film screening is a program of the
The Henry Morgenthau, Jr. Holocaust Collections: A Curatorial Project -- a pathfinding initiative to discover unique but dispersed Holocaust subject material across the Roosevelt Library's archival holdings. By introducing emerging practices from the field of digital humanities in developing this project, the Library is working to provide better access -- building on existing digital resources -- to its Holocaust-related records. These collections will be available through the Library's website at
www.fdrlibrary.org.
Please contact Cliff Laube at (845) 486-7745 with questions about the event.
