Shanghai, 1939. Little Rina and her younger brother Mishalli have fled here from Europe, awaiting reunion with their parents. Hungry and penniless, she swaps her mother’s necklace for warm pancakes and soon forges a friendship with the young vendor, Zhou A-Gen. They share their cultures and help one another cope with loss and conflict as Japanese thugs and German troops grip the city. All the while, the fate of Rina and Mishalli’s parents in Europe remains unclear…
Director Wang Genfu’s screen adaptation of the graphic novel by Wu Lin is the first Chinese animated film to portray the Holocaust. Artfully rendered, this moving and enlightening film offers us a glance of Shanghai’s Hongkou district, where some 35,000 Jewish refugees found safe haven during WWII.
Date: October 16, 2011, 5pm
Speaker: Evelyn Pike Rubin, resident of Shanghai during WWII; Co-sponsor: Carmel Academy. 80 minutes
Location: Carmel Academy, 270 Lake Avenue, Greenwich Perfect for ages 11 and up. Presented by JCCGreenwich.org. See below for link where people can register and buy tickets. http://www.jccgreenwich.org/index.php?option=com_jevents&task=icalrepeat.detail&evid=56&Itemid=7&year=2011&month=10&day=16&title=a-jewish-girl-in-shanghai&uid=2ff590512ecd78b13ccb9b7921add37d
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