JCHRnow.com International Film Festival - Peter Yarrow highlights... "We Are The Tree Of Life- CARRY ON" with Jacqueline Shema Gmach - Producer Recorded Wednesday, Jan 10th. Peter Yarrow highlights...“We are the Tree of Life - Carry On,” with Producer Jacqueline Shema Gmach and Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul, and Mary will present a feature-length film focusing on Holocaust education utilizing the arts to promote a message of hope and survival. Literature, music, dance, poetry, and drawings created by prisoners in the concentration camps and ghettos during World War II, show that beauty can survive, even when experiencing unspeakable horrors. Producer Jacqueline Shema Gamach and friends will join the Film Event including Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul, and Mary who will sing for us. Jackie adds, “The Film demonstrates that all of us can overcome and that the human spirit is irrepressible.” Some of the prisoners of the camps and ghettos found their humanity and self-worth in the arts, dancing secretly at night, drawing or painting pictures, and playing music, Gmach told the Chronicle. “Their talents, their works, are today a message of survival, hope and resiliency,” she said. In small and quiet moments, prisoners of the Third Reich clung to the joy of “creating” so that their spirits could stay alive, she said. In her mission to combat hate and spread hope and love through the arts, Gmach stresses the importance of educating young people about crimes against humanity. As founder and creative director of We are the Tree of Life - Carry On, she urges educators to promote “acceptance” rather than just “tolerance.” Program Curated and Produced by Jeffery Giesener - Founder of the Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance International Community. The Community as of Jan 2024 has over 20,000 annual users. Program Recorded: Jan 10, 2024 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theobligationofmemory/message