Friday, February 17, 2012

ROMA TEARS

FILM SCREENING!

FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE!

THURSDAY, FEB 23,

3:30pm-5:30pm,

PHOTO:  Luminita Mihai Cioaba
www.romanochon.org

UW-Seattle campus, CMU 120
(Communications Building, Room 120)


Free and open to the public

In Romania, in 1942, the military dictator and Nazi ally Marshall Ion
Antonescu ordered the mass deportations of Roma (Gypsy) people and Jews to
Transnistria.

In this documentary, Luminita Mihai Cioaba, Roma cultural leader in Transylvania, Romania interviews some of the last remaining Roma Holocaust survivors of these little known historical events.

Film screening followed by Q & A with Ms. Cioaba.

This event is sponsored by the Department of Spanish & Portuguese; the
Department of Comparative Literature, Cinema and Media Studies Program;
the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences; Educational Outreach;
The Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities.

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