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Unbroken — One Family’s Story
1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK
On May 20, 1946, after fleeing Nazi Germany, the Weber siblings made headlines when they arrived in the United States by boat. The press reported with amazement that these seven Jewish siblings managed to survive the Holocaust together. But soon after, in a twist of fate, they were split up by the United States foster care system. More than forty years later, the siblings finally reunited, and began piecing together memories of their unlikely journey to freedom.
The Girl Who Wore Freedom
11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK
The Girl Who Wore Freedom tells the story of D-Day as experienced and remembered by the local population of Normandy, France. This film, featuring a French girl paying tribute to her American liberators, reminds us of the historic alliance between the two countries in defense of universal values.
The Eichmann Trial
11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK
On May 11, 1960, Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was captured in Argentina after a fifteen-year manhunt and whisked to Jerusalem to stand trial for his crimes against humanity. Told entirely through archival footage of the trial itself and contemporaneous news coverage, The Eichmann Trial documents one of the most shocking trials in history and the birth of Holocaust awareness and education.
NOVA’s Holocaust Escape Tunnel
1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK
In this film produced by the NOVA science series and directed by Paula S. Apsell, cutting-edge technology reveals a Holocaust escape tunnel where survivors dug their way to freedom outside Vilnius, Lithuania.
Sugihara Survivors
1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK
This program examines the actions of the Holocaust rescuer Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat who saved Jews in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1940.
Let My People Go — The Women Who Began the Movement to Rescue Soviet Jews
11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK
This film-and-discussion program tells the story of how a group of young Jewish women, in Britain, Ireland and several other western countries, known as the “35s” because of their median age, created an international movement to rescue persecuted “refusenik” Jews from the Soviet Union. In the new film Iron Ladies, these remarkable women share their untold story on film, joined by Natan Sharansky and others.
Fred Korematsu — An American Hero
1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK
Fred Korematsu defied the US government in 1942 when he refused to be interned as a Japanese American. His case went all the way to the Supreme Court, which ruled against him. He was finally exonerated in 1983, in a landmark case that restored his civil rights and led to reparations for all Japanese Americans who had been interned during World War II. In 1998, Korematsu received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The film Of Civil Wrongs and Rights tells his powerful and important story.
Aristides de Sousa Mendes — The Angel of Bordeaux
11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK
The film The Consul of Bordeaux is a semi-fictionalized feature film based on the story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes and the families he saved. Please join us for this free program on our inspiring hero!
The Jewish History of Comic Book Heroes
1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK
Did you know the secret Jewish history of Superman, Spiderman and other famous superhero characters? Tune into this free program to find out.
Elie Wiesel — Soul on Fire
1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK
Told largely through his own words and eloquent voice, Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire seeks to penetrate to the heart of the known and unknown Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) — his passions, his conflicts and his legacy as one of the most public survivors of the trauma of the Holocaust. With unique access to personal archives, original interviews and employing hand-painted animation, the film illuminates Wiesel’s biography as a survivor, writer, teacher and public figure.