FREE SCREENING OF DOCUMENTARY FEATURING LOCAL WWII PILOT IMPRISONED AT NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMP
Airman and former Buchenwald prisoner Jim Stewart to attend.
St. Andrews, New Brunswick (February 25, 2012) – In the summer of 1944, 168 Allied Airmen were labelled police prisoners by the German Gestapo and sent to the Buchenwald Concentration Camp to be executed.
One surviving member of the group, St. Andrews-based Hawker Typhoon fighter pilot Jim Stewart, will attend free public screening of a documentary…. its Canadian premiere…. about the ordeal, at the W.C. O'Neill Arena Complex Theater, St. Andrews NB, on Sunday, April 1 at 7:30pm.
The film was produced and directed by Southern California-based producer/director Mike Dorsey, whose grandfather E.C. "Easy" Freeman was in the group of airmen at Buchenwald. Stewart, Freeman, and five other Buchenwald airmen appear in the film, including their commanding officer, New Zealander Phil Lamason.
The film's production spanned the globe, from the US to Germany, France, and New Zealand, featuring rare WWII footage and compelling interviews with the survivors.
SOURCE: Press Release from St. Andrews Film Society.
Airman and former Buchenwald prisoner Jim Stewart to attend.
St. Andrews, New Brunswick (February 25, 2012) – In the summer of 1944, 168 Allied Airmen were labelled police prisoners by the German Gestapo and sent to the Buchenwald Concentration Camp to be executed.
One surviving member of the group, St. Andrews-based Hawker Typhoon fighter pilot Jim Stewart, will attend free public screening of a documentary…. its Canadian premiere…. about the ordeal, at the W.C. O'Neill Arena Complex Theater, St. Andrews NB, on Sunday, April 1 at 7:30pm.
The film was produced and directed by Southern California-based producer/director Mike Dorsey, whose grandfather E.C. "Easy" Freeman was in the group of airmen at Buchenwald. Stewart, Freeman, and five other Buchenwald airmen appear in the film, including their commanding officer, New Zealander Phil Lamason.
The film's production spanned the globe, from the US to Germany, France, and New Zealand, featuring rare WWII footage and compelling interviews with the survivors.
SOURCE: Press Release from St. Andrews Film Society.
