Films about juvenile prisoners of Nazi concentration camps to be screened at the Presidential Library's cinema club meeting

The films of the project of the Media Center of the St. Petersburg Academy of Postgraduate Pedagogical Education "Diary of Memory", dedicated to the 75th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, will be shown at the Presidential Library’s regular cinema club meeting on April 21, 2021 at 16:00.

The project is carried out to help pedagogical workers developing patriotic feelings among the younger generation, form a respectful attitude towards the history of the Fatherland and strengthening relationship between generations.

The project "Diary of Memory" is based on the memories of fellow countrymen who survived the war and thematically consists of several parts: children of the siege of Leningrad, children of the Stalingrad war, cabin boys of the Baltic, etc.

Two films based on the "Diary of Memory" project, dedicated to juvenile prisoners of Nazi concentration camps, will be shown at the cinema club meeting.

The guests of honor of the event will be the heroes of the films who were in captivity at a young age: the chairman of a public organization of former juvenile prisoners of Nazi concentration camps, ghettos and other places of detention Olga Prokhorova, Larisa Platonova, Galina Rubaeva, head of the St. Petersburg literary association Nevskiye Berega Vladimir Dudrov.

The films will be broadcasted live on the Presidential Library's portal in the Live broadcasts section, in the Presidential Library's cinema club group on the VKontakte social network and on the institution's YouTube channel.

The event will take place at the Presidential Library at the address: Senate Square, 3. Please confirm your personal presence before 12:00, April 19, by phone: 305-16-35; +7 921 594-16-13 or by e-mail: smolina@prlib.ru, Elena Viktorovna Smolina.

Accreditation of media representatives is until 12:00 April 20, 2021.

Please forward applications for accreditation following the attached form marked “Media Accreditation” to the following e-mail addresses: media@prlib.ru, pechnikova@prlib.ru Tatyana Pechnikova, tel.: (812) 305-16-21, ext. 534; mob. +7 921 998-06-78.

The letter should contain the full name, date and place of birth, passport data (series, number, place of registration), a list of carry-on equipment, contact phone numbers, the name of the media.

We draw the attention of the media representatives that it is necessary to forward applications for accreditation and arrive at the event in advance.

Entrance to the Presidential Library is carried out only by prior registration and upon showing a passport: for media representatives - through entrance № 2, participants and guests of the event - through entrance № 1.

In order to reduce the risks of the spread of a new coronavirus infection (COVID-19), the use of personal protective equipment during the event is mandatory for all attendees.