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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 a powerful time in the history of the alliance between the two countries.
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 stationed in Kaunas, Lithuania.
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 the British Isles, known as the “35s” because of their median age, began the 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.