Film Premiere at the Illinois Holocaust Museum on January 19: "The Devil's Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes"

I have to do another post about an upcoming event at the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, and I will, of course, but this upcoming event caught my attention along the way:

On January 19, the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center will host the North American premiere of The Devil's Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes (trailer here).

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.

Originally premiered as the opening film of the renowned documentary festival DOCAVIV (and released as a documentary series on Israel’s TV-network KAN 11), MGM Television, SIPUR, Toluca Pictures, Alice Communications, Menemsha Films, and the Illinois Holocaust Museum will bring a feature-length version of The Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes to North America, beginning with its January 19 premiere in Skokie.

A reception, starting at 5:15 p.m., will precede the premiere. The screening will be followed by a distinguished panel discussion with Director Yariv Mozer, Executive Producer Emilio Schenker, and world-renowned Holocaust experts Dr. Michael Berenbaum, of American Jewish University, and Dr. Peter Hayes, Professor, Northwestern University. The discussion will be moderated by Richard Salomon, Vice President, Museum Board of Directors. Opening remarks will be given by Steve Stark, Chairman of Toluca Pictures, former President of MGM Television, and Executive Producer of the film.

Co-sponsoring this premiere with the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center are the Illinois Film Office, the JCC Chicago Jewish Film Festival, Am Shalom, Chicago-Kent School of Law Centerfor National Security and Human Rights Law, Temple Chai, the Consulate General of Argentina in Chicago, and the Decalogue Society of Lawyers.

To register for this event, click here.