



Dr. Manoj Dixit,
Head, Department of Public Administration, University of Lucknow
Director, Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma Institute of Democracy
Secretary, Lucknow University Alumni Foundation
Prof. A. K. Sengupta, Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Lucknow

Dr. Navras Jaat Aafreedi, the Open Space Fellow in Lucknow



On Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary, 2nd October, observed across the world as the International Day of Non Violence according to a UN resolution, Open Space, in collaboration with the City Montessori School, screened
Night and Fog before an audience of 3,500 people at the CMS's World Convention Centre. Mahatma Gandhi, who staunchly believed in non-violence, said that if a war could be justified, it would be war against Germany to prevent the wanton persecution of a whole race, the Jews.


























13-year-old Yugratna Srivastava who addressed the United Nations Climate Change Summit in New York on 22nd September 2009, talking to a journalist while seeing the Holocaust posters displayed at the venue.









A story titled,
"Holocaust: The Biggest Hoax of the Twentieth Century", that the largest circulated Urdu daily newspaper in Lucknow, the
Rashtriya Sahara, carried on 16th September, 2009, with particular reference to our ongoing Holocaust Films Retrospective. This article itself is a good proof of the widespread Holocaust denial among the Muslims in South Asia, who form the largest Muslim population of the world. One of the primary aims of this Holocaust Films Retrospective was to counter this Holocaust Denial. Besides a large number of Muslim students, the event was attended by well known Muslim personalities like the eminent Urdu poet
Professor Malikzada Manzoor Ahmad, acclaimed Urdu writer
Dr. Ayesha Siddiqui and noted theatre/TV/Film personality
Salim Arif, all of whom spoke against Holocaust Denial.



Mr. B. B. Nagpal, Film Critic and Media Consultant



Mr. Jagdish Gandhi, Educationist





Mr. Jagdish Gandhi seeing an exhibition of the Holocaust posters donated by Yad Vashem, Jerusalem

Mr. Jugal Kishor, Bharatendu Natya Akademi (Bharatendu Academy of Dramatics)



Dr. Surya Mohan Kulshreshtha, Director, Bharatendu Natya Akademi (Bharatendu Academy of Dramatics)



Prof. Roop Rekha Verma, Social Activist and Former Vice Chancellor, University of Lucknow





Dr. Ayesha Siddiqui, Urdu Fiction Writer




Prof. Malikzada Manzoor Ahmad, Urdu Poet



Prof. Thontadrya, Theatre Personality





Mr. Salim Arif, Theatre/Film/TV Personality




Mr. M. S. Sathyu, Filmmaker

From the left: Dr. Gopal Singh, Head, Department of Mass Communication & Journalism, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Prof. B. B. Hanumaiah, Vice Chancellor, B. B. Ambedkar University, Prof. Thontadrya, Theatre Personality and Mr. M. S. Sathyu, Filmmaker



Dr. Govind Ji Pandey, Reader, Department of Mass Communication & Journalism, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow and Coordinator of the film screenings at the university



















Dr. Dinesh Sharma, the Mayor of Lucknow

Prof. B. B. Hanumaiah, Vice Chancellor, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow



Dr. Govind Ji Pandey













OPEN SPACE - LUCKNOW is greatly indebted to a number of people and organisations (in alphabetical order):

Mr. Alessandro Matta, Italy

Mr. Anwar Nadeem, India (http://anwarnadeem.blogspot.com)
Mr. Asher Tarmon, Israel (picture not available)

Prof. Deepika Marya, USA

Ms. Ellen Friedland, USA (www.jemglo.org)

Mr. Eyal Boers, Theora Design, Israel

Mr. Fazl-ur-Rehman, India
Fondazione Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Conteporanea (CDEC), Onlus, Milan, Italy
Mr. Georg Gruber and Mr. Jochen Freydank, Magnet Film, Germany (www.magnetfilm.de)

Dr. Govind Ji Pandey, Department of Mass Communication & Journalism, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, India

Ms. Harriet Bograd, USA (www.kulanu.org)

Ms. Kamayani Sharma, India

Ms. Karen Cantor, Singing Wolf Documentaries, Inc., USA

Prof. Leah Wing, USA

Ms. Limor Pinhasov Ben Yosef, Israel
and
Mr. Yaron Kaftori Ben Yosef (picture not available)
Cicero Film Productions, Tel Aviv

Ms. Lina Caneva, Caneva Media Productions, Australia

Dr. Manju Sikarwar, India

Ms. Ornit Barkai, USA (www.tinro.com)

www.pov.org
Ms. Pearl Goldberg, Ms. Andria Spindel and Dr. Stuart Kamenetsky, Congregation Darchei Noam, Toronto, Canada (picture not available)

Rabbi Marvin Tokayer, USA

Prof. Sarva-Daman Singh, Australia

Ms. Shana Weinberg, USA

www.sisuent.com

http://college.usc.edu/vhi

www.yadvashem.org































































