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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.
The Daring Rescue of Denmark’s Jewish Community
11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK
The collective rescue action that saved about 95% of the Danish Jewish population in October 1943 is a unique story in the annals of Holocaust rescue. New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage currently has on view a must-see exhibition about this story, designed for young people, ages 9 and up, and their families. Meet the curator who created this exhibition, the historian who consulted on it and a Holocaust survivor who was himself born in Denmark.
Cartoonists Against Racism: The Secret Jewish War on Bigotry
BOOK LAUNCH EVENT!
1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK
Cartoonists Against Racism uncovers the secret campaign spearheaded by the American Jewish Committee to create anti-racist comics and cartoons to flood America’s newspapers, classrooms, and union halls during World War II. Meet the artists and the work that was their ammunition in the battle for America’s soul.
Women’s Resistance at Auschwitz
11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK
Sabotage tells the dramatic and unknown story of the women’s underground operation in Auschwitz-Birkenau. It is a story of feminine heroism, resistance, hope and tragedy, told through the eyes of Anna Heilman, sister of Estera Wajcblum, the youngest member of the women’s resistance group, that also included Róza Robota, Ella Gärtner and Regina Safirsztajn. These heroic women, whose names we should remember, helped plan and implement the Sondercommando Revolt of October 7, 1944.
Operation Wedding — The Story of Soviet Jews Who Cracked the Iron Curtain
11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK
Leningrad, 1970. A group of Soviet Jews who were denied exit visas plots to hijack an empty plane and escape the USSR. 45 years later, filmmaker Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov reveals the compelling story of her parents, leaders of the group, “heroes” in the West but “terrorists” in Russia, even today.