Teicholz Film Series: Son of Saul

October 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Saul Ausländer is a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando, the group of Jewish prisoners isolated from the camp and forced to assist the Nazis in the machinery of large-scale extermination. While working in one of the crematoriums, Saul discovers the body of a boy he takes for his son. As the Sonderkommando plans a rebellion, Saul decides to carry out an impossible task: save the child's body from the flames, find a rabbi to recite the mourner's Kaddish and offer the boy a proper burial.

Watch a trailer HERE.

The film will be made available to registrants three days before the program, with a live panel conversation about the film at the listed time featuring Journalist Tom Teicholz and Dr. Jennifer Rodgers from USC Shoah Foundation. 

Jennifer L. Rodgers is the inaugural Director of Academic Programs at the USC Shoah Foundation. An historian of modern Germany and Europe, she holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, where she wrote a dissertation on the International Tracing Service (ITS), the first study of this Holocaust-era humanitarian organization. She is currently finishing a manuscript on the ITS titled The Archives of Humanity: The International Tracing Service, The Holocaust, and Postwar Order. She has also begun work on her second monograph, which explores the history of obstetrics in Germany during the 20th century. Rodgers has held a wide array of fellowships including at the German Historical Institute, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Mémorial de la Shoah in Paris, the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure, and the Graduate Institute for of International and Development Studies in Geneva. Prior to graduate school, Jennifer held research positions at, among others, the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations, the Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States, the German Historical Institute, and the USHMM. Her scholarship deals with archives, humanitarianism and human rights, the aftermath of Nazism, and the histories of medicine and gender.

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