Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date: May 5, 2005
Contact: Keith Allen
E-mail: kallen@historyassociates.com
Telephone: (301) 279-9697

HAI Announces Role in New Documentary Film "Kupishok: For Eternal Memory"

History Associates Incorporated (HAI), based in Rockville, MD, is proud to have played a major role in the creation of a new documentary, "Kupishok: For Eternal Memory." The film was produced by Harvey Sherzer and Norman Meyer with screenplay and historical research by HAI senior historian Dr. Keith R. Allen. "Kupishok" tells the story of a remarkable journey of remembrance taken in July 2004 by the survivors and descendants of the Jews of Kupishok, Lithuania, a remote town that for 350 years was a Jewish shtetl. In the horror of the Holocaust, all of the town's Jews, except those few who had escaped, were murdered by the Nazis and their Lithuanian accomplices. Sixty-three years after the killings, fifty-two survivors, descendants, and family members returned to dedicate a magnificent wall of memory in Kupishok's main library, formerly the Great Synagogue of Kupishok, and new memorial plaques at the cemetery.

The National Center for Jewish Film at Brandeis University, the largest and most prestigious distributor of Jewish-themed video and film in the world, has agreed to distribute the video. It can be ordered on-line at http://www.jewishfilm.org.

History Associates provides business, government, and nonprofit clients with professional historical research, writing, archives, and records management services. For more information, call (301) 279-9697 or visit www.historyassociates.com.