A Protest to the World: The Dramatic Story of Szmul Artur Zygielbojm

1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK

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Szmul Artur Zygielbojm was a Polish Jewish socialist politician and member of the Polish Government-in-Exile in London during World War II. A lifelong activist, he is most famous for his final act of protest to the world against the indifference of the Allies to the fate of Europe’s Jews. In this richly multimedia and life-affirming film-and-discussion program, Dr. Jud Newborn interweaves his thrilling discovery of Zygielbojm’s lost artifacts with an elegy to the lost world of the Jewish shtetl.

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VIEW A CLIP FROM THE FILM

THE SCHEDULE

⇒ March 3-6, watch the film The Death of Zygielbojm on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register.

⇒ Sunday, March 5 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of guests.  A link will be provided to all who register.

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MEET THE PANEL

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Dr. Jud Newborn (left) 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. Arthur Zygielbaum (right) is the grandson of Szmul Artur Zygielbojm. He is an Emeritus Research Associate Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln School of Natural Resources. Previously he worked at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in a variety of capacities. He was on the science and tracking teams of many space missions, including Voyager, Viking and Helios, and helped test Einstein’s theory of general relativity. He holds a BS in Physics from UCLA, an MS in Electrical Engineering-Computers from USC and a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His hobbies include amateur radio and photography.

Sharon Douglas (moderator) is the CEO of the Anne Frank Center USA and is a philanthropist, business advisor, and educator. In 1999, she was a member of the delegation to the United Nations for the Anne Frank Declaration of Peace and has for the past two decades represented the Anne Frank Center at numerous events in England and the Netherlands. A long-standing board member of the Anne Frank Center, Sharon also serves as the Secretary of the Board, and, with her husband Preston, was the 2016 co-winner of the Spirit of Anne Frank Distinguished Advocates Award. She holds a BA in Education, with graduate study at Queens College and St. John’s University.

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Registration for this program is closed.

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Thank you to event sponsors Mimi and Marvin Sandler.

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This program is co-presented with the Anne Frank Center USA.

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