Intershul Film Series-The Devil's Confession, the Lost Eichmann Tapes

Wednesday, 24 January, 2024 • 14 Shevat 5784

7:00 PM - 9:30 PMLeah Posluns Theatre, Prosserman JCC

Sponsored by the Jack z"l and Toby Kolnick Holocaust Education Fund

Discussion following the film with special guest:
Professor David Koffman
J. Richard Shiff Chair for the Study of Canadian Jewry, York University

David S. Koffman is the J. Richard Shiff Chair for the Study of Canadian Jewry, and an associate professor in the Department of History at York University, where he teaches courses on Canadian Jewish history, religion in American life, the meanings of money, genealogy as history, modern antisemitism, and religion & capitalism. He serves as the editor-in-chief of the journal Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes, and the associate director of York's Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies. His first monograph, The Jews’ Indian: Colonialism, Pluralism, and Belonging in America (Rutgers University Press, 2019), explored the Jewish encounter with Indigenous Peoples in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is the editor of and a contributor to the book No Better Home?: Jews, Canada, and the Sense of Belonging (University of Toronto Press, 2021). His newest book, an edited volume, Promised Lands North and South: Jewish Canada and Jewish Argentina in Conversation, is scheduled to be published later this spring.

“Exposing Eichmann’s visceral, ideological antisemitism, his zeal for hunting down Jews and his role in the mechanics of mass murder, the series brings the missing evidence from the trial to a mass audience for the first time.”
- Isabel Kirshner, The New York Times

"An event of major importance for the field of Holocaust research... (and) an opportunity for a renewed reading of Hannah Arendt’s "Report on the Banality of Evil." - Aner Govrin, Haaretz

The Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes unearths secret recordings of Adolf Eichmann, one of the chief architects of the Holocaust’s Final Solution, which definitively shows his active involvement in the planning and implementation of one of the greatest atrocities in world history. Recorded in Buenos Aires in 1957 by Dutch journalist and former SS-Officer Willem Sassen with the intention to prove the Holocaust did not happen as portrayed and without Hitler’s knowledge, these tapes show the opposite and expose Eichmann, in his own voice, stunningly contradicting claims he made during his eventual trial for crimes against humanity, war crimes, and crimes against the Jewish people. The Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes sheds light on the hidden forces that concealed the recordings, altering the arc of history as we have understood it for more than 70 years, and provides irrefutable proof against Holocaust denial and the pernicious antisemitic hatred from which it springs.

This film is in English with translation of Hebrew & German with subtitles
2 hours

Watch the trailer below:

The Toronto Holocaust Museum is open late on Wednesday, January 24 and is free from 4pm until closing at 8 pm. Reserve your tickets now. Upon checkout, use the booking code, compwed under the section where it says “Apply a discount” and “Redeem a discount code.” Note: this is for tickets to the Museum, not the Film Screening.

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gayle@bethtikvahtoronto.org