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SUMMARY:Film: Rumbula's Echo
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 Film: Rumbula's Echo, directed by Mitchell Lieber\n
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 Director 
 Mitchell Lieber will be present 
 to show this documentary-in-progress and answer 
 questions about the massacre of 25,000 
 Jews in the Rumbula Forest, outside Riga, in 
 late November-early December 1941 in Latvia. 
 The Riga massacre was the second major event 
 in the Holocaust in the former Soviet territory 
 after Babi Yar. \n
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 ABOUT THE MOVIE:\n
 Rumbula's 
 Echo is the first film and TV program 
 focused on documenting the Rumbula Forest murders 
 of 25,000, more than a third of Latvia's 
 Jews. It is among the largest mass shootings 
 of its kind of the Holocaust.\n
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 The documentary 
 places this genocide within the setting 
 of the Holocaust in Latvia, during which Nazis 
 and collaborators murdered an estimated 98% 
 of Latvian Jews trapped in the country. Its 
 weave of archival film and photos is narrated 
 by those who were there as viewers see Latvia's 
 Jewish community wiped out in six months 
 in 1941. Rumbula's Echo is documenting Rumbula, 
 and other pivotal Holocaust history in film, 
 while the few remaining survivors can tell 
 the story behind historic photos and silent 
 film images. Rumbula's Echo offers the most 
 profuse and detailed eye-witness descriptions 
 of a large Holocaust mass shooting, within a 
 local context, ever seen on film or television.\n
 (from 
 http://www.rumbulasecho.org/)\n
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 Price: Free and Open to the Public\n
 Sponsor: Jewish Studies Program\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://events.msu.edu/jewishstudies/\n
 Contact name: Jewish Studies Program\n
 Contact phone: 517-432-3493\n
LOCATION:Wells Hall B119
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