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June 2022
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Dr. Ruth Westheimer 94th Birthday Celebration

June 5, 2022
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1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK

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Meet Dr. Ruth Westheimer and join her birthday celebration! Born as Karola Ruth Siegel on June 4, 1928, in Frankfurt, Germany, she grew up as the only child in a privileged Orthodox Jewish family. However, her carefree childhood was violently shattered shortly after Kristallnacht when the SS came to take away her father. In 1939, she was sent on a Kindertransport to Switzerland, where she lived in an orphanage until 1945. She then emigrated to pre-state Israel, became known as Ruth Siegel (dropping the German-sounding Karola) and became a sniper and scout for the Haganah.

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Daughters of the Inquisition — Retracing Long-Lost Jewish Roots

June 12, 2022
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11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK

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This program features the breathtaking stories and genealogical sleuthwork of Doreen Carvajal and Genie Milgrom, who succeeded in reaching back centuries to find their Jewish ancestors in pre-Inquisition Spain and Portugal. (more…)

July 2022
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Cartoonists Who Spoke Out

July 31, 2022
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1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK

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At a time when too many people looked away, a handful of American political cartoonists used their pens to raise the alarm about the raging Holocaust. These included some of America’s most famous cartoonists, such as the beloved Dr. Seuss, the Washington Post‘s Pulitzer Prize winning Herbert Block (“Herblock”) and many others. Holocaust historian Rafael Medoff, author of We Spoke Out: Comic Books and the Holocaust, will discuss this fascinating subject together with George Gustines, who covers comics and graphic novels for The New York Times.

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August 2022
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Safe Haven in the Philippines

August 21, 2022
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1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK

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In the 1930s, when nations of the world were closing their doors to refugee Jews fleeing the growing horror of Hitler’s Germany, one small island nation in the Pacific, the Philippines, chose to do what others would not — save those lives. This rescue, orchestrated and empowered through President Manuel Quezon, gave the refugees a new welcoming homeland as the Filipino people opened their hearts and accepted them within the fabric of Philippine society. Today a monument to this rescue action stands in Rishon Le Zion, Israel.

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February 2023
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In the Garden of the Righteous

February 12, 2023
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1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK

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Richard Hurowitz‘s new book In the Garden of the Righteous from HarperCollins chronicles the heroes and heroines who not only rescued Jews from the Holocaust but also, as Golda Meir once said, “saved hope and faith in the human spirit.”

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The Freedom Line

February 26, 2023
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1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK

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Compared to Casablanca by The Washington Post, this is a page–turning story of a group of resistance workers who rescued downed Allied fighter pilots and spirited them through France and into safety in Spain during World War II. 

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August 2023
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Hubert Humphrey and Human Rights

August 27, 2023
January 14, 1978 1948, left: Young supporters carried the Minneapolis mayor - and candidate for the U.S. Senate - through the Minneapolis railway station on his return from the Democratic national convention in Philadelphia. A speech by Humphrey had caused the party to adopt a strong civil-rights platform plank, and Southern "Dixiecrats" had walked out of the convention. Suddenly Humphrey was a national figure.  January 25, 1978

1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK

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Join Samuel Freedman and Jane Eisner as they discuss Freedman’s new book, Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights. Their discussion will focus on Humphrey’s fight against antisemitism in post-World War II America.

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November 2023
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Among the Righteous — Arab Rescuers of Jews

November 12, 2023
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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.

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February 2024
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Hannie Schaft — Dutch Resistance Hero

February 18
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1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK

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Hannie Schaft, the “girl with the red hair,” was a university student when Nazi Germany occupied the neutral Netherlands in 1940. Over the next five years she risked everything — her education, her safety, her family, and her life — in order to shelter her Jewish friends and become, along with her young comrades, the Oversteegen sisters, one of the Most Wanted resistance fighters in the country.  (more…)

March 2024
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Whistleblowers

March 17
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1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK

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A compelling nonfiction graphic novel, Whistleblowers is the true story of four courageous individuals who risked their careers — or their lives — to confront the unfolding Holocaust.  (more…)

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