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The Egyptian Doctor Named Righteous Among the Nations
August 11
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11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK
The documentary film Anna and the Egyptian Doctor tells the extraordinary story of Dr. Mohamed Helmy, who rescued a Jewish teenager in Berlin by disguising her as his Muslim assistant. He is the first and only Arab to be recognized as Righteous Among the Nations, but his family refused to accept the award for decades out of fear of reprisal. Helmy’s nephew, Dr. Nasser Kotby, who finally accepted the award over his family’s objections, is the first Arab Muslim to commemorate the Holocaust on film. Anna and the Egyptian Doctor presents a story that transcends the boundaries of time, religion, and politics.
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VIEW THE TRAILER
THE SCHEDULE
⇒ August 9-12, watch the film Anna and the Egyptian Doctor on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register.
⇒ Sunday, August 11 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register.
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MEET THE SPEAKERS
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Taliya Finkel is an award-winning independent filmmaker and multi-disciplinary artist. She has written and directed seven films that have been broadcast and screened in festivals and on television worldwide. She has won seventeen international prizes for her work. Finkel earned a B.A in Literature and Cinema from the Open University in Israel. She specialized in acting for cinema at the Ruth Dayches acting school. She is also a graduate of the Alma School for Cultural Studies where she was the recipient of the AMITIM scholarship. She is a three-time winner of the America-Israel Cultural Fund for the Arts, and also studied photography at Bezalel Academy of Art. After spending several years in Vienna, she currently resides in Jerusalem.
Artist Yaron Shin provided the animation for the historical sequences in Anna and the Egyptian Doctor. He has worked on TV, film and cultural projects as Project Manager, Art Director, designer (Print/Motion), illustrator, animator and artist, particularly on subjects of Israeli politics and society. He holds degrees in Visual Communication and Design from the University of Haifa and HKU Utrecht, The Netherlands. From 2013-23 he chaired the Department of Graphic Design and Animation at the NB School of Design (WIZO), University of Haifa. He is a member of the Saloona Art Group. His works have been presented in exhibitions worldwide and published in books and magazines of art and design. He is the founder and director of Jewboy animation studios.
Carla Gutman Greenspan is the daughter of Anna Gutman, the German Jewish teenager whose story is featured in Anna and the Egyptian Doctor. A native New Yorker, Carla is a retired nurse. She is a graduate of Queens College and Downstate Nursing School, and an ardent supporter of Jewish charities. In her free time, Carla enjoys traveling across the globe, hosting, cooking, baking, and doting on her six grandchildren. Carla strives each day to honor the memory of Dr. Mohamed Helmy, who risked so much, so that Carla, her children, and her children’s children could live a full and prosperous life.
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