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Among the Righteous — Arab Rescuers of Jews
11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK
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Not to be missed! Few people know that the Holocaust extended beyond the European continent, into the North African countries of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya. There, Nazi Germany, Vichy France and Fascist Italy sent thousands of Jews to forced labor and set up dozens of concentration camps for both local Jews and Jewish refugees from Europe. For 20 years, Dr. Robert Satloff has been on a quest to find Arabs who rescued Jews from this persecution. The result is the powerful film, Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust in Arab Lands, and a companion book.
Lisbon — Harbor of Hope
11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK
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View Pavel Schnabel‘s award-winning film, Lisbon — Harbor of Hope, then join us for the discussion. The film follows several Jewish families who escaped Nazi Germany to Lisbon from 1933-38, before the outbreak of war. For those families it was still permissible to settle in Portugal, and the film interviews several of these survivors. The Sousa Mendes story is also told, through the diplomat’s son, Pedro Nuno de Sousa Mendes, who was a witness and participant in his father’s rescue action.
Return to Life! The Story of Lena’s 100 Children
11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK
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The film My 100 Children tells the story of Lena Kuchler-Silberman, a Holocaust survivor and teacher in Poland who established an orphanage for 100 Jewish children in Zakopane, Poland in 1945 and later brought them to Israel. Lena was a surrogate mother to these children — she clothed them, fed them, listened to their stories and gave them hope again.
Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die
1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK
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Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die? is a 1982 documentary film that asks whether the United States could have stopped the Holocaust. The film combines previously classified information, rare newsreel footage, and interviews with the politicians who were in office at the time, to tell a behind-the-scenes story of secret motives and inane priorities that allowed for the deaths of millions.
KLARSFELD — A Love Story
11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK
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Serge and Beate Klarsfeld are best known to the public as Nazi hunters. Thanks to their heroic efforts, Nazi criminals Klaus Barbie, Alois Brunner, Kurt Lischka and many others were brought to justice in Germany and France. In parallel with this effort is their tireless work to document the names, faces and lives of the murdered Jews of France. They also continue to speak up for an inclusive multi-ethnic Europe and against the rising tide of extremist right-wing political figures and parties. The new documentary film, KLARSFELD — A LOVE STORY, documents their extraordinary partnership for justice. They will be interviewed for this program by Peter Hellman.
Who will write our history? — Heroic Tales of Jewish Resistance
1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK
This program features the award-winning film Who will write our history? on the true story of the resistance fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto who, in the face of certain death, systematically and heroically assembled and buried an archive to preserve the memories of their lives. In conjunction with the film screening, the Holocaust scholar Dr. Jud Newborn will put this inspiring story in the context of the wide variety of forms of Jewish spiritual and physical resistance practiced all across Nazi-occupied Europe.