Emmy Award-Winning Filmmaker to Present

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Friday, January 27, 2012

Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Pierre Sauvage will present his documentary “Weapons of the Spirit,” which tells the story of a French village that defied the Nazis and took in and saved 5,000 Jews, at York College at 3:30 p.m., Feb. 16, in the Humanities Center Room 218. Sauvage, who was among the Jews saved by the people of Le-Chambon-sur-Lignon, will be available for a question-and-answer session following the film. He will then present a talk titled “Learning Hope from the Holocaust” at 7 p.m. in DeMeester Recital Hall, located in Evelyn and Earle Wolf Hall. Both events are open to the public free of charge.

“Weapons of the Spirit” is a “return to hallowed ground” by its director, who was born among the villagers during the time of their resistance. The film has received numerous awards, including the DuPont-Columbia Award for Broadcast Journalism. Sauvage’s most recent documentaries are “Not Idly By: Peter Bergson, America, and the Holocaust” and “And Crown Thy Good – Varian Fry in Marseille.”

Sauvage serves as president and founder of the Chambon Foundation, an organization that is dedicated to exploring and communicating the lessons of hope intertwined with despair of the Holocaust.