Director Kai Wessel’s first feature film addresses one of the greatest taboos of German history—the Nazis’ euthanasia program. Based on Robert Domes’ 2008 historical novel, Fog in August concerns the fate of 13-year-old Ernst Lossa, who is committed to a mental hospital in 1942 because of his Roma origins (and not due to actual illness).

He soon discovers the truth behind the hospital’s façade and sets about sabotaging its euthanasia program with the help of other patients, at great personal risk.

May 25 screening followed by a panel discussion with Senior Historian at the USHMM Patricia Heberer-Rice, German Historical Institute research fellow Richard F. Wetzell, and president of the board of the National Roma Center in Macedonia Jud Nirenberg.