Events
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tickets by donationSeptember 27
11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK
Portugal managed to get through all of World War II without firing a single shot. Caught in a vise between the Axis and the Allies, António Salazar, the country’s strongman, used every trick in the book to get his country through unscathed. Bruno Lorvão‘s documentary Lisbon and World War II: Spies, Gold and Diplomacy explores how the Portuguese dictator took advantage his country’s neutrality, and how the rescue action of Aristides de Sousa Mendes presented a threat to Salazar’s plans.
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tickets by donationOctober 4
11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK
Children Saved from the Nazis — The Story of Sir Nicholas Winton is a documentary film about Nicholas Winton, the man who organized the Kindertransport evacuation of 669 children from Nazi threatened Czechoslovakia to the United Kingdom on the eve of the Second World War.
His son Nick Winton will be joining us live from the UK. Also speaking will be the historian Dr. Mordecai Paldiel, and the event is moderated by Melissa Hacker of the Kindertransport Association.
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tickets by donationOctober 18
11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK
Captain Witold Pilecki voluntarily entered the Auschwitz concentration camp, built a secret resistance and sent desperate reports to London and Washington. 947 Days in Auschwitz is a documentary created by Warsaw-based filmmaker Patrick Ney together with the Home Army Museum in Kraków, Poland — home to Pilecki’s eyewitness Auschwitz report. Pilecki’s accounts were smuggled across occupied Europe, reached Churchill and Roosevelt, and were dismissed. This film asks the question history has never fully answered: what if they had listened?
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tickets by donationNovember 1
11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK
On November 7, 1938, 17-year-old Herschel Grynszpan shot Nazi diplomat Ernst vom Rath in Paris, providing the pretext for Kristallnacht. In Proud Jewish Boy, acclaimed Israeli director Isri Halpern traces Herschel’s journey from poverty in Germany to his arrest in France and the Nazi show trial that never was. Combining rare interviews, archival footage, and illustrations by the artists of Waltz with Bashir, the film investigates the complex motives behind this famous murder.
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Girl in Blue — The Nazi Looting and Post-War Recovery of Renoir’s Portrait of a Jewish Girl in Paris
free but registration requiredNovember 22
1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK
In 1941, a specialized German looting unit in France plundered one of Renoir’s most haunting masterworks: La Petite Irène. In her deeply researched new book, The Girl in Blue — Renoir’s Portrait of a Dynasty Erased, author Doreen Carvajal reconstructs the intertwined wartime journeys of Irène Cahen d’Anvers — the Jewish model who survived in Nazi-occupied Paris while members of her family were deported and murdered — and of her famous portrait that was looted and passed through Hermann Göring’s hands. Their paths converge in a story of beauty and betrayal ― the painting a silent witness to what history tried to erase. -
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tickets by donationDecember 6
11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK
The Academy-Award nominated film Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah by the British filmmaker and journalist Adam Benzine, explores the 12-year journey undertaken by Lanzmann to make his 1985 film Shoah, a nine-and-a-half-hour-long documentary which is today considered among the most important Holocaust works in existence.