Among Neighbors: Yom HaShoah Film Screening

Join the JCCSF and JFCS Holocaust Center for two special community screenings of the award-winning film Among Neighbors (10:00 am & 6:30 pm)

In partnership with Contemporary Jewish Museum and Congregation Emanu-El.

Decades after the Holocaust, acclaimed American filmmaker Yoav Potash (Crime After Crime, Sundance Film Festival) unearths the haunting mysteries of a small Polish town where people of two different faiths lived side by side for centuries.

Daytime Screening: 10:00 am – Noon

This unique daytime screening is open to the public, community groups and school field trips. Following the film, Beth Cohen, Director of Education at the JFCS Holocaust Center, will lead a Q&A. In partnership with the Contemporary Jewish Museum.

For more information and to register for a school field trip, please visit: https://holocaustcenter.jfcs.org/among-neighbors-film-screenings-bay-area-students/.

Evening Screening: 6:30 – 9:00 pm

Following the film, join us for a conversation with Aaron Tartakovsky, third-generation descendant of Holocaust survivors whose own family history is connected to the story explored in Among Neighbors, and an associate producer of the film. He will be joined by Rabbi Ryan Bauer, Richard and Rhoda Goldman Senior Rabbi at Congregation Emanu-El, for a discussion reflecting on memory, truth, and the courage required to confront difficult histories.

To reserve more than 10 seats for a community group, please email Hannah Pozen at hpozen@jccsf.org.

About the Film

At its heart, the film focuses on two individuals who lived through the peril of World War II and its aftermath: Yaacov Goldstein, a Holocaust survivor whose harrowing story exposes both the heights of human compassion and the depths of cruelty and Pelagia Radecka, an eyewitness to when five Jews were murdered, not by the Nazis but by her own Polish neighbors, six months after the end of World War II.

Breaking decades of silence for this film, they share secrets they have held for a lifetime, and their experiences are brought to life in stunning animated sequences, enriched by artful touches of magical realism. Together, their accounts illuminate the darkest chapter of Poland’s history.

Film Length: 100 minutes