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Dr. Murray Bessette with best-selling author Ruta Sepetys and director Marius Markevicius after a successful world premiere of the film "Ashes in the Snow" on September 21.

On September 21, Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC) Director of Academic Programs Dr. Murray Bessette attended the LA Film Festival for the world premiere of Ashes in the Snow, a film directed by Marius Markevicius and set to be released in select theaters and video-on-demand on January 11, 2019.

Based on The New York Times best-selling novel Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys — an advisor to VOC’s Baltic Studies Program — the film tells the story of a 16-year old artist and her family being deported from Lithuania to Siberia amid Stalin’s brutal dismantling of the  Baltic region.

In partnership with Mrs. Sepetys, the Foundation is working to incorporate new materials based on the book and film into our high school curriculum. VOC Plans to work with Mrs. Sepetys to deliver this curriculum to teachers during our professional development workshops in the spring of 2019.

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