Emmy award-winning film-maker Andre Singer and historian Simon Schama have endorsed the Holocaust educational work of JRoots and the charity’s increasing focus on combating Shoah denial.
Four-hundred JRoots supporters at the Apollo Theatre in London’s West End on Sunday watched segments from Mr Singer’s documentary Night Will Fall, featuring harrowing footage of liberated Nazi death camps shot by British and American army photographers.
In a subsequent debate, Mr Singer said it still shocked him “that political expediency can so override an obvious moral imperative of exposing what happened 70 years ago. That’s what’s terrifying about [the footage in the documentary] being put under the carpet and stuck on the shelf for so long.”
Mr Schama said: “We are living in a time when truth itself cannot be taken for granted; empirical evidence cannot be taken for granted.
