Watch the film from home: February 7-14, 2022 

Join zoom Discussion Final Account: The Difference Between Transformative and Performative Accounting Post-Holocaust: February 16, 2022 | Noon PST

Please join Amanda Byron Singer, Tamara Meyer, and Robbie Schaefer to reflect on the film, Final Account, in light of their experiences in Germany this past November. Jewish Remembrance Week in Goertlitz focused on the importance of recognizing the vitality of Jewish life in Goerlitz prior to World War II, and paved the way for new opportunities for accountability and transformation. The nature of performative apology will be explored in contrast to transformative apology, in terms of what constitutes a “final” accounting in the aftermath of atrocity.

Final Account is an urgent portrait of the last living generation of everyday people to participate in Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich. Over a decade in the making, the film raises vital, timely questions about authority, conformity, complicity and perpetration, national identity, and responsibility, as men and women ranging from former SS members to civilians in never-before-seen interviews reckon with – in very different ways – their memories, perceptions and personal appraisals of their own roles in the greatest human crimes in history. Watch the trailer HERE.

The program is co-sponsored by the Holocaust and Genocide Studies Project at Portland State University, the Never Again Coalition, and OJMCHE.

Information regarding how to watch the screening will be sent out on February 7 to those that have registered by zoom.