Kehilath Israel Synagogue (K.I.) will host a screening of the 2025 film “Nuremberg” for Yom HaShoah.
The event, to be held on Tuesday, April 14, at 6:45 p.m., is open to the community and will be at K.I. (10501 Conser, Overland Park, KS 66212).
The event is free, but all attendees must RSVP for security purposes at kisyn.eventsmart.com/yomhashoah.
“Nuremberg” is about an American psychiatrist, Douglas Kelly (played by Rami Malek), evaluating Nazi leaders before the Nuremberg Trials. He grows increasingly obsessed with understanding evil as he forms a disturbing bond with Hermann Göring (played by Russell Crowe). The film uses archival concentration camp footage and discussion of the Holocaust, so viewer discretion is advised.
“My wife Becca and I watched the movie ‘Nuremberg’ on Netflix and were very moved by it,” K.I. Rabbi Moshe Grussgott said. “It contains some graphic scenes of the concentration camps, but I grew up with such scenes, and I actually find it important to expose ourselves to them from time to time.”
Memorializing Yom HaShoah at K.I. is important to Rabbi Grussgott.
“It’s unfortunate that Yom HaShoah is not more widely observed,” he said. “In my own Orthodox community, the more traditionalist view is that we don’t have the right to invent new holidays, and so the Holocaust should be commemorated on Tisha B’Av in the summer, which is already there to commemorate all Jewish tragedies. However, I think we ought to do both. It was actually Rabbi Tibor Stern, the last Orthodox chief rabbi of Kansas City in the 1950s, who made one of the earliest Orthodox cases for observing Yom HaShoah separately from Tisha B’Av.”
More information is available at kisyn.eventsmart.com/yomhashoah or by emailing Henri Gaeddert at .
