Film Screening

11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK

Children Saved from the Nazis — The Story of Sir Nicholas Winton is a documentary film about Nicholas Winton, the man who organized the Kindertransport evacuation of 669 children from Nazi threatened Czechoslovakia to the United Kingdom on the eve of the Second World War. 

His son Nick Winton will be joining us live from the UK. Also speaking will be the historian Dr. Mordecai Paldiel, and the event is moderated by Melissa Hacker of the Kindertransport Association.

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11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK

Captain Witold Pilecki voluntarily entered the Auschwitz concentration camp, built a secret resistance and sent desperate reports to London and Washington. 947 Days in Auschwitz is a documentary created by Warsaw-based filmmaker Patrick Ney together with the Home Army Museum in Kraków, Poland — home to Pilecki’s eyewitness Auschwitz report. Pilecki’s accounts were smuggled across occupied Europe, reached Churchill and Roosevelt, and were dismissed. This film asks the question history has never fully answered: what if they had listened?

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11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK

On November 7, 1938, 17-year-old Herschel Grynszpan shot Nazi diplomat Ernst vom Rath in Paris, providing the pretext for Kristallnacht. In Proud Jewish Boy, acclaimed Israeli director Isri Halpern traces Herschel’s journey from poverty in Germany to his arrest in France and the Nazi show trial that never was. Combining rare interviews, archival footage, and illustrations by the artists of Waltz with Bashir, the film investigates the complex motives behind this famous murder. 

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11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK

The Academy-Award nominated film Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah by the British filmmaker and journalist Adam Benzine, explores the 12-year journey undertaken by Lanzmann to make his 1985 film Shoah, a nine-and-a-half-hour-long documentary which is today considered among the most important Holocaust works in existence.

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