Who will write our history? … and Other Heroic Tales of Jewish Resistance

1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK

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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. 

WATCH THE TRAILER

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THE SCHEDULE

⇒ January 19-22, watch the film Who will write our history? on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register.

MEET THE PANEL

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Dr. Jud Newborn was the Founding Historian of New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, and 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.

Dr. Shulamit Reinharz, who will moderate, is the Jacob Potofsky Professor Emerita of Sociology at Brandeis University. While at Brandeis, she created a graduate program in Women’s Studies as well as the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute for the study of the intersection between Jews and gender. She was born in Amsterdam and grew up in the United States with intermittent stays in Israel. She is the author or editor of sixteen books, including the forthcoming 100 Jewish Brides: Stories from Around the World and Hiding in Holland: A Memoir in Four Hands. She is a sought-after speaker and has participated in numerous programs of the Sousa Mendes Foundation.

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Registration for this program is closed.