Never Forget: What We Carry project

 

 

 

“Evil does not need your help, just your indifference.” Hanns Loewenbach, survivor

The East Coast premiere of “What We Carry,” a documentary featuring the stories of four Hampton Roads Holocaust survivors, will be held at 3 p.m., Sunday March 25, at the Tidewater Community College Roper Performing Arts Center.

The 63-minute film boldly documents four survivors’ unique stories through a riveting format that creates an immediate emotional intimacy, so that truth can live on, questions can be asked, and history cannot be rewritten.

Produced by award-winning filmmakers Janice Engel and Amber Howell, “What We Carry” combines interviews with still photos, archival footage and music created specifically for the film.

The documentary was developed for the Holocaust Commission of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater’s innovative project by the same name.

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Plastic Waste

Morning Joe has guests sounding the alarm about plastic pollution.  One guest is warning about grocery bags.  She says that the plastic bags will outlive the pyramids.  She strongly recommended that everyone take the recyclable bags to the grocery store. 

The men on Morning Joe all cringed and said they refused to walk in a grocery store with a cloth grocery bag.  Is it really a sissy thing to do?

Nearly everything is plastic.  Our bottles and jars are plastic.  The garbage bags we buy are plastic.   Even the make up I use that used to be in glass jars has gone plastic.  I thought we got to recycle plastic bottles.  Is this something to fix or is someone pushing the alarm buttons again?  Do you have any plastic warnings?  Plastic tips?  Is it sissy to take a recyclable bag to the grocery?