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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
11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK
In this film produced by the NOVA science series and directed by Paula S. Apsell and Kirk Wolfinger, cutting-edge technology reveals a Holocaust escape tunnel in a forest outside Vilnius, Lithuania. Meet the lead scientist who discovered the escape tunnel and the daughter of one of the survivors who tunneled his way to freedom.
Sugihara Survivors
1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK
Fleeing from Kaunas, Lithuania in 1940, thousands of Jewish refugees escaped by train across Russia and then by boat to Japan thanks to visas from the Japanese diplomat, Chiune Sugihara. Many years later — as told in the film Sugihara Survivors — a Japanese writer, Akira Kitade, inherits a photo album with pictures of some of these refugees. He sets out on a mission to discover what became of these Sugihara visa recipients.
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 incarcerated 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 helped lead to reparations for all Japanese Americans who had been incarcerated 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.
Family Treasures Lost & Found — One Woman’s Search for Answers
1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK
On this Mother’s Day film-and-discussion program we present Family Treasures Lost & Found — exploring the quest of journalist Karen Frenkel to learn the stories that remained untold about her mother’s Holocaust survival experience.
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 Superheroes
1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK
Do you know the secret Jewish history of comic books? Have you heard the Jewish stories behind iconic characters such as Superman and Spider-Man? And how comic books have portrayed the Holocaust? Tune into this free program to find out.
The Last Nazi Hunter
11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK
The film The Last Nazi Hunter tells the dramatic true story of Dr. Efraim Zuroff and his decades long efforts to bring Nazi war criminals to justice. See the film and then meet him in person. A rare opportunity! Zuroff will be in dialogue with Dr. Mordecai Paldiel, who will also speak about a few individuals who were both Nazi collaborators and rescuers of Jews, and how Yad Vashem handled such cases.