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Heroes of the Jewish Resistance
August 25
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11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK
Paula Apsell‘s stunning new documentary film, Resistance – They Fought Back, will be the basis of this film-and-discussion program. This groundbreaking film uncovers a deeper and fuller story than has yet been told, using cutting edge techniques of documentation, including forensic archeological investigation. Meet the filmmaker and two of the people interviewed in the film, Dr. Steven Meed and Prof. Yoel Haari, whose mothers were the real-life heroes Vladka Meed and Bela Hazan. Dr. Jud Newborn, a leading world authority on Jewish resistance during the Holocaust, will moderate.
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VIEW THE TRAILER
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THE SCHEDULE
⇒ August 23-26, watch the film Resistance – They Fought Back on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register.
⇒ Sunday, August 25 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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Paula S. Apsell got her start in broadcasting at WGBH Boston, where she joined NOVA, a documentary series that has set the standard for science programming. In 1985, she was asked to take over the reins at NOVA which she then ran for 33 years. During her tenure, NOVA won every major broadcasting award, most many times over. She has been recognized with numerous individual awards for her work, including the 2018 Lifetime Achievement Emmy. She holds honorary doctorates from Southern Methodist University and Dickinson College. She founded Leading Edge Productions to make documentaries of scientific, cultural, and historical importance. She has now completed a feature documentary about Jewish resistance during the Holocaust entitled Resistance – They Fought Back.
Steven D. Meed, MD (left) is the son of Vladka and Benjamin Meed, Jewish resistance heroes. He was raised in a Yiddish-speaking secular Jewish home where the responsibility for preserving Holocaust memory and Yiddish culture was part of the family ethos. From high school on, he was asked to translate his parents’ speeches from Yiddish to English. He is featured in the film, Resistance – They Fought Back. Dr. Meed received his MD from the NYU School of Medicine, and post-doctoral training in rheumatology and pain management. After retiring from practice in 2020, he has been involved in retranslating his mother’s memoir, On Both Sides of the Wall, from the original Yiddish.
Prof. Yoel Yaari (right) is the son of the Jewish resistance hero Bela Hazan and he appears in the film Resistance – They Fought Back. He is the Henri and Erna Leir Professor for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases at the Hebrew University Faculty of Medicine in Jerusalem. Since 2015 he has been investigating Holocaust-related topics, focusing on Jewish women serving as couriers and Jewish women interned in SS camps. He has published several articles and podcasts on these topics in public media. His documentary book Portrait of a Woman was recently published in Hebrew and is currently being translated into English.
Dr. Jud Newborn (left, moderator) was the Founding Historian of New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage and is co-author of the acclaimed Sophie Scholl and the White Rose. A dramatic multimedia lecturer, he has spoken throughout North America, at the UN and worldwide. He was awarded his PhD with Distinction by the University of Chicago following three years of adventurous fieldwork as a Fulbright and Woodrow Wilson National Fellow, including hunting down former SS officers and working undercover during communist martial law in Poland. He was honored with the Anne Frank Center’s prestigious “Spirit of Anne Frank Award” and is the Emmy Award-winning Producer of Special Programs for Long Island’s Cinema Arts Centre.
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