Large Turnout for Syrian Refugee Documentary

About 200 persons tonight attended the Connecticut premiere at Temple Israel of “82 Names: Syria, Please Don’t Forget Us,”, a documentary film about Mansour Omari, a refugee of torture and imprisonment in Bashar al-Assad’s Syria. In the film, Omari, living in exile, reflects on bringing attention to the brutal regime he escaped from, visiting Holocaust memorials in Germany to learn about the importance of preserving the past and countering extremist ideology. It was presented by the Westport Library and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and sponsored by Cohen & Wolf. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Lynn U. Miller for WestportNow.com