Bidens to show 'The Survivor' for Holocaust Remembrance Week
ABC News
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden are set to host their first official film screening at the White House on Thursday
WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden were set to host their first official film screening at the White House on Thursday.
The Bidens will show HBO’s “The Survivor,” in honor of Yom HaShoah and Holocaust Remembrance Week, in the White House movie theater on the ground floor of the East Wing.
The film tells the story of boxer Harry Haft, who put the lives of fellow concentration camp prisoners at risk to save his own. The movie dramatizes Haft’s experience in Auschwitz, a central part of the Nazi death camp system.
An estimated 1.3 million people were deported to Auschwitz in German-occupied Poland and at least 1.1 million died, according to its museum and memorial website.
