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October 27, 2014
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UMD Announces a Series of Free Holocaust Commemoration Events
Guest Speaker Sandra Schulberg Presents Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today


Sandra Schulberg

DULUTH, MN — On Sunday, November 9, at 1 pm in Weber Music Hall on the University of Minnesota campus, the Duluth community is invited to see the restored documentary film, Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today. Sandra Schulberg, daughter of the film’s original writer and director and one of the people who helped to restore and launch the film in 2009, will give a presentation about the film’s original creation, its suppression, and her journey to see it completed and shown around the world. This event is free and open to the public. Attorneys who attend this event can earn 3.5 Continuing Legal Education credits.

Other free events in the Baeumler Kaplan Holocaust Commemoration series:

On Thurs., Nov. 6 at noon in the Martin Library Rotunda, UMD Associate Professor Deborah Petersen-Perlman, from the Department of Communication, will present “Holocaust Memorials: Marketing, Commemoration or Both?” Having traveled to Europe and visited Holocaust memorials and museums, she will reflect on the power and limitations of such memorials.

On Fri. Nov. 7 at noon in the Martin Library Rotunda, UMD Associate Professor Alexis Pogorelskin, from the Department of History, will give a presentation on Kristallnacht, known as the “Night of Broken Glass,” when in 1938 paramilitary forces and non-Jewish civilians ransacked Jewish homes, shops, hospitals, and schools and burned and desecrated over 1,000 synagogues. German authorities did nothing to stop the violence. Many historians view these events as the beginning of the Holocaust.

About the Film

Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today was made in 1948 about the Nuremberg trials. The film was commissioned by the U.S. Department of War. While the motion picture was designed to educate audiences on how the U.S., Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union had built their case against some of the top Nazi leaders of World War II, and was shown widely in Germany, for reasons that are still unclear, it was never shown in the U.S. The Baeumler Kaplan Holocaust Commemoration Committee is sponsoring the showing of the film and Ms. Schulberg’s lecture. It is being held on the 76th anniversary of Kristallnacht.

About Sandra Schulberg

Sandra Schulberg is a film producer and longtime advocate of "Off-Hollywood" filmmakers. In the late 70s, she founded the IFP, now the largest association of independent filmmakers in the U.S. She co-founded First Run Features in 1980 and served on the Sundance Film Festival advisory committee in its early days. Currently, she serves on the advisory committee of the Women's Film Preservation Fund and is a member of the Association of Moving Image Archivists and of New Day Films. As a producer, her many film credits include Beth B's Exposed, the Oscar-nominated Quills, Sundance Grand Prize-winner Waiting for the Moon, and Wildrose, which was filmed on the Mesabi Iron Range and in Bayfield, Wis.

Besides restoring her father's film, Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today, she collaborated with the Academy Film Archive to preserve two dozen Marshall Plan and OMGUS films. Sandra Schulberg holds a BA from Swarthmore College, and for the last decade has taught Feature Film Financing & International Co-Production to students of Columbia University’s Graduate Film Division.

In 2006, Sandra received a grant from the Righteous Persons Foundation to research and write a book with her uncle, Budd Schulberg, about the hunt for Nazi film and photographic evidence that was used at the Nuremberg trial. Based on family letters and documents, the resulting booklet, titled Filmmakers for the Prosecution, is included with the new digital edition of Nuremberg. She is also at work on a longer book, The Celluloid Noose.

About the Schulberg Brothers

Stuart Schulberg was studying journalism at the University of Chicago when World War II broke out. He enlisted in the Marine Corps and was assigned to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and its documentary unit, headed up by Hollywood film director John Ford. In addition to producing Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today, Stuart made Marshall Plan films for the U.S. government. He went on to produce feature films and later formed Schulberg Productions with his older brother, Budd. In 1961, Stuart joined NBC Television as co-producer of David Brinkley’s Journal. In 1965, he was named producer of Sports in Action. He worked as an independent documentary film producer in the late 60s, producing The Angry Voices of Watts (1966), which was nominated for an Emmy. Stuart rejoined NBC and produced The Today Show until 1976. He passed away in 1979 at the age of 56.

Budd Schulberg was serving in the U.S. Navy when he was assigned to the OSS and tasked with gathering as much film and photographic evidence as he could locate to use against Nazis leaders during the Nuremberg trials. He supervised the creations of two works, The Nazi Plan and Nazi Concentration Camps. Both films were presented as evidence at the Nuremberg trials and footage from both films was used in the creation of Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today. Following the war, Budd Schulberg was a successful novelist and screenwriter, winning an Academy award for his screenplay On the Waterfront. He was also a sports writer and worked as the chief boxing correspondent for Sports Illustrated. He passed away in 2009 at the age of 95.

Baeumler Kaplan Fund

Walter Baeumler was a professor of Sociology at UMD for 28 years. He was born in Nuremberg, Germany, and was inducted into the German army at age 16. At age 17, he was a veteran who escaped the Russians. He immigrated to the United States with his son and wife in 1955. He started teaching at UMD in 1965 and taught until his death in 1993. Baeumler and his friends, Walter and Goldie Eldot, established the Holocaust Commemorative Series at UMD while he taught classes on the subject. The Memorial Lecture Series was established to remember the lives and sufferings of Holocaust victims.

Mortrud Kaplan was a lifelong resident of Duluth and a registered pharmacist. Kaplan’s sister, Ida Grubnick, created a fund to memorialize her brother. She wished the commemoration to explore the plight of Jews and Judaism.

The purpose of the Baeumler Kaplan Fund is to provide resources for lectures, seminars, and presentations dedicated to informing and educating people about the Holocaust, its victims, causes, consequences, lessons, and memory.


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