‘Letters from Brno’ Screening, Producer Talk at NMU

  Northern Michigan University will host a film screening of “Letters from Brno,” an award-winning documentary that relays a powerful, heart-wrenching story of parental love and unspeakable sacrifice during the Holocaust. The showing is at 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 7, in Mead Auditorium (2701 Science Building). The film’s writer and producer, Karen Kruger, will participate in a discussion afterward. In a 45-year search for clues to her mother’s past, a woman uncovers the tragic fate of her grandparents from the eyewitness accounts of their letters written during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia. The film’s awards include best documentary at the Prague International