Anne Frank on PBS; "Defiance" film in Amherst.
“The Diary of Anne Frank” will air April 11 on WGBY-TV, Channel 57. This file photo of Anne Frank is from the Anne Frank Center, USA
The showing of the 2009 film “Defiance,” which deals with Jewish resistance during World War II, will be part of a Yom HaShoah or Holocaust Remembrance Day commemoration on April 11 from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Jewish Community of Amherst, 742 Main St., Amherst.
The event will also include a candle lighting ceremony.
The author of the book, “Defiance: The Bielski Partisans,” on which the film is based, Nechama Tec, emerita professor of sociology at the University of Connecticut in Stamford, will speak on April 12 at 5:30 p.m. in Patterson Hall at Hampshire College in Amherst.
“The Diary of Anne Frank” will air April 11 at 9 p.m. on WGBY-TV, Channel 57, as part of Holocaust Remembrance Day.
This version stars Ellie Kendrick, who was 17 when she portrayed the 13-year-old Frank,” and “dramatizes the two years that the Jewish teenager, her family and four others hid in a secret annex above her father’s office in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam.”
To read Richard Mauer’s interview with screenwriter Deborah Moggach, and for information on the adaptation for the Masterpiece Classics series, visit the Web site, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/annefrank/index.html
To read The Republican Newspaper in Education interview with Justin D. Cammy, professor of Jewish Studies at Smith College in Northampton, about legendary Yiddish poet and Holocaust survivor Abraham Sutzkever, visit the Web site, http://blog.masslive.com/nie