Holocaust film premiere is Sunday at JCC

YOUNGSTOWN — “A Survivor’s Journey from Ruin to Redemption” is the title of a new Holocaust film and traveling exhibition that will premiere at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Jewish Community Center, 505 Gypsy Lane. The event is free and open to the public.

It features the life and legacy of Henry Kinast, who was born in 1930 in Lodz, Poland. When the Nazis invaded the country, his family relocated to a ghetto in Suchedniow, Poland. When he was 12, he worked as a slave laborer in a munitions factory in a concentration camp. There he became an expert machinist. Kinast and his father and brother were in Buchenwald concentration camp and all survived. Kinast came to Youngstown in 1955 and his machinist skills helped him start a business with partners.

The film is the third documentary and second exhibit about a Mahoning Valley survivor that was produced by the Jewish Community Relations Council of the Youngstown Area Jewish Federation.