On the 10-th of March, 2016 the preview of the documentary "Farewell Herr Schwarz" (2013, Germany / Israel) and the meeting with the director Yael Reuveny was organized at the Tolerance centre of the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum. This cinematic journey about buried family secrets and the legacy of the Holocaust appreciated a lot by Lithuanian audience won the best documentary awards at the Haifa Int’l and DOK Leipzig film festivals.

At the end of WWII, Reuveny’s grandmother Michla planned to meet her brother Feiv’ke at the Lodz train station. He never showed up. Fifty years later, Yael Reuveny traces how three generations of her family are haunted by the meeting that never happened. Michla ended up in Israel, while Feiv’ke, believed dead, remained in Germany. The Israeli and German sides of the family lived unaware of each other until the director of this film went to Germany. The story in the film also goes back to the pre-war family history in Vilnius.

During the meeting Yael shared that she did work with this movie for 6 years and the symbolic and real reunion of the family finally helped to recover  the holocaust experience. 

The screening of the documentary "Farewell Herr Schwarz" was included into “German Cinema Days” program and organized by the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Goethes Institute in Lithuania.