Please join us on Monday, April 13 at 5:30pm, for a screening of the acclaimed documentary Four Winters followed by a conversation with filmmaker Julia Mintz and Shlomo Bobrow, a survivor from the Polish partisans during the Holocaust. This will be held in Anchorage at the Wilda Marston Auditorium at Loussac Library. We will soon update you with a link to the ticket purchase site.

Four Winters tells the story of the Jewish partisans who fought the Nazis and their collaborators during World War II, surviving against all odds within the forests of eastern Europe. The film pushes back against widespread narratives of Jewish passivity during World War II and serves as an inspiring reminder of individuals' power in the face of authoritarian threats. You can watch a trailer for Four Winters here. 

“All I owned was a rifle, a leopard coat and my camera,” says Faye Schulman, whose clandestine photographs of Jewish partisans living in the forests of Eastern Europe documented their efforts to disrupt the Nazi killing machine by blowing up bridges, derailing trains, and smuggling Jews. The image of Schulman with an ammunition belt slung over her fashionable shoulder is only one of many jaw-dropping moments in Julia Mintz’s riveting documentary. Some of the last surviving partisans tell stories of cold, hunger, and fear, but also of their capacity for courage, altruism, resourcefulness, and barbarism. Maybe you think you’ve heard it all before. You haven’t.