Oct

23 2018

Columbia Jewish Film Festival: Scandal in Ivansk

7:00PM - 9:00PM  

Nickelodeon Theatre 1607 Main Street
Columbia, SC 29201

$ Cost $ 11.00

In the small Polish town of Ivansk, one word ignites a nationwide controversy. Most of Ivansk’s Jews were killed by the Nazis, and the headstones in the Jewish cemetery were plundered for construction purposes. A group of descendants of Ivansk Jews restores the town’s cemetery, retrieving what headstones they can. When they commission a plaque that includes the word “collaborator,” a national scandal is unleashed. This eye-opening documentary strives to understand why much of the nation won’t accept “collaborator” to describe Polish people who aided the Nazis and benefitted from the genocide of Jews.