REFUGE: STORIES OF THE SELFHELP HOME  is a one-hour documentary revealing the origins and originality of a resourceful community that over generations has brought together more than 1,000 Central European Jewish refugees and Holocaust survivors under one roof.  Interweaving archival footage with testimony by the Selfhelp Home’s residents and founders, REFUGE reaches back 70 years to tell the story of this last generation.

REFUGE will premiere at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center on Sunday, June 3, 2012 at 1pm. Please call 847-967-4889 for reservations. The screening is free with museum admission.