The media is invited to a special preview of
NJN’s The Hidden Child
Conant Hall, Educational Testing Service, Princeton

WHAT: Special preview of NJN’s newest production, The Hidden Child, the story of Maud Dahme who, as a six-year-old Dutch girl, survived the Holocaust because of the decency and bravery of complete strangers. Now a prominent New Jersey resident and former president of the New Jersey State Board of Education, Dahme devotes her life to Holocaust and genocide education. For information, interviews with the producers or to obtain a media kit with a preview DVD of the program, please contact Aimee Fisher at (609) 777-5058 or at afisher@njn.org

WHERE: Conant Hall at Educational Testing Service, 660 Rosedale Road, Princeton, NJ 08541

WHEN: Tuesday, April 4; reception from 4:30 to 5:30 pm; premiere begins at 5:30. The Hidden Child is one hour in length.

NJN BROADCAST DATES: Tuesday, April 25, at 10 pm, with a rebroadcast on Sunday, April 30, at 4 pm. The program is closed captioned.

BACKGROUND:
The Hidden Child is an outgrowth of a July 2004 trip to the Netherlands with Dahme and a contingent of twenty New Jersey school teachers. Chronicled by an award-winning production team, NJN captured Dahme’s return to the Dutch farmhouse and countryside where she had been hidden as a child. NJN also documented her emotional reunion with one of the Christian women who saved her life. Tolerance, mutual respect and understanding are issues explored in the documentary as well as in an accompanying teacher’s guide which is being developed by New Jersey educators.