This Ordinary Thing | Screening & Discussion

Screening & Discussion

This Ordinary Thing

A film by Nick Davis

The Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities (AIPG) invites you to a private discussion and sneak peek screening of This Ordinary Thing, a documentary film about non-Jews who helped Jews during the Holocaust, directed by Nick Davis.

Attendees are invited to begin the evening with a relaxed reception featuring drinks and tapas, followed by a discussion between filmmaker Nick Davis and Martin Sklar, Board Member of the Auschwitz Institute. The event will conclude with the screening of the film. Limited spaces are available for the evening, so please RSVP here as soon as possible to confirm your attendance.

For any questions, please send an email to: events@auschwitzinstitute.org.

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About

What would you do?

This Ordinary Thing consists of readings from transcripts from interviews with over forty different people all over Europe who, working independently and at great risk to themselves and their families, saved Jews from almost certain death. It's about pockets of goodness in a sea of evil, people helping people who were "different" from them. The cast includes Helen Mirren, F. Murray Abraham, Carrie Coon, Jeremy Irons, Ellen Burstyn, and Stephen Fry, among others.

Nick Davis is an Emmy Award-winning writer, director, and producer. His work includes the ESPN series Once Upon a Time in Queens and the Emmy-winning Netflix documentary Comeback: The 2004 Boston Red Sox. His upcoming projects include You Had to Be There, about the legendary 1972 Toronto production of Godspell, and This Ordinary Thing, a film that explores the stories of non-Jews who saved Jews during the Holocaust and features an all-star voice cast including Helen Mirren, Jeremy Irons, Ellen Burstyn, and Stephen Fry, among others. Davis founded Nick Davis Productions in 2001 and has produced over 80 hours of documentary programming for major networks. He is also the author of Competing with Idiots, which was shortlisted for the LA Times book prize in 2021.

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