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PJCS Film screening: SHTTL

Event Type
Film Screening
Sponsor
The Program in Jewish Culture and Society, Slavic Reference Library, REEEC, History Department
Location
Main Library Building, Room 66 (1408 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801)
Date
Oct 16, 2025   5:15 pm  
Cost
Free and open to the public
Contact
Anastasiia Strakhova
E-Mail
as261@illinois.edu
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Originating Calendar
Russian, E. European & Eurasian Center: Co-sponsored Events

Join us for a screening of the award-winning film, SHTTL (Ukraine, 2022), that portrays the lives of inhabitants in a small Ukrainian Jewish town (shtetl) at the Polish border 24 hours before the Nazi invasion. It is a touching story of a filmmaker who returns from Kyiv to his native shtetl to marry the love of his life and disrupts the balance of the entire town. In one unflinching shot, SHTTL presents a day in the life of a shtetl before it disappears in the aftermath of the Holocaust. The production fully reconstructed a traditional shtetl outside of Kyiv, which is planned to be turned into a museum.

With introductory remarks by Stefan Djordjevic, Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies, History Department.

Snacks will be provided.

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