The Colours of the Holocaust: Worldwide premier of film to be shown in Albuquerque and Santa Fe

On Wednesday, January 27th all around the world, viewers will be watching the world premier of the movie by Finnish photographer and film-maker Rax Rinnekangas. The 60-minute film looks at one of the least known reasons for the holocaust – the birth of Aryanism in Europe in the 19th century – on its shift to Nazism in the first half of the 20th century.
Although anti-Semitism had long been a part of living in Eastern Europe, never before had a government instituted a policy of genocide throughout not only that country, but across every other conquered country.

Addressed especially to new generations, the film also reveals that Organized Evil – the Nazis’ utopia of an empire lasting a thousand years – did not, after all, occur in a black and white reality, like archive films have taught us, but in the same colourful world in which we live today. Source: Colours of the Holocaust

The film will be screened (in Finnish with subtitles) in over 30 places around the world in countries such as Mexico, Canada, Kosovo, Hungary and the United States. All screenings are taking place on January 27, 2010 as homage for peace, and as acknowledgment of 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

In Albuquerque, the film will be shown at the El Rey Theater, 620 Central Ave. SW, on Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. Admission is free. Following the screening a reception will be held at the Holocaust and Intolerance Museum of New Mexico, 616 Central Ave. SW.

The mission of the Holocaust and Intolerance Museum of New Mexico is to educate people about the Holocaust as well as other genocides around the world. The Museum is partnering with the El Rey Theater and the Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Library System to bring this important film to Albuquerque.

In Santa Fe there will be two showings at 2:30 and 5:30 PM - free admission with discussion led by Rabbi Drucker and a Musical Interlude with Hazzan Cindy Freedman. at 4 PM at Jean Cocteau Theater 418 Montezuma Santa Fe. It is presented by HaMakom a progressive Jewish community.

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