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August 2024
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The Egyptian Doctor Named Righteous Among the Nations

August 11, 2024
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11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK

The documentary film Anna and the Egyptian Doctor tells the extraordinary story of Dr. Mohamed Helmy, who rescued a Jewish teenager in Berlin by disguising her as his Muslim assistant. He is the first and only Arab to be recognized as Righteous Among the Nations, but his family refused to accept the award for decades out of fear of reprisal. Helmy’s nephew, Dr. Nasser Kotby, who finally accepted the award over his family’s objections, is the first Arab Muslim to commemorate the Holocaust on film. Anna and the Egyptian Doctor presents a story that transcends the boundaries of time, religion, and politics.

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Heroes of the Jewish Resistance

August 25, 2024
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11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK

Paula Apsell‘s stunning new documentary film, Resistance – They Fought Back, will be the basis of this film-and-discussion program. This groundbreaking film uncovers a deeper and fuller story than has yet been told, using cutting edge techniques of documentation, including forensic archeological investigation. Meet the filmmaker and two of the people interviewed in the film, Dr. Steven Meed and Prof. Yoel Yaari, whose mothers were the real-life heroes Vladka Meed and Bela HazanDr. Jud Newborn, a leading world authority on Jewish resistance during the Holocaust, will moderate.

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September 2024
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Sousa Mendes Museum Virtual Tour

September 15, 2024
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11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK

The Aristides de Sousa Mendes Museum is open! Please join us for this behind-the-scenes look at the exciting new museum in Portugal devoted to the Holocaust rescuer Aristides de Sousa Mendes. This program comes with the rare opportunity to view the film Disobedience: The Sousa Mendes Story free of charge!

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“We were the lucky ones” — The Psychology of Kindertransport Survivors

September 29, 2024
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1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK

Into the darkness of the Holocaust it is important to add true tales that are life affirming. My Knees Were Jumping; Remembering the Kindertransports was screened at the Sundance Film Festival and was short-listed for an Academy Award nomination. This film, by Melissa Hacker, focuses on the psychology of the child survivors and the transmission of memory from one generation to the next. The filmmaker’s mother, the Academy Award nominated costume designer Ruth Morley (Taxi DriverAnnie HallThe HustlerThe Miracle WorkerTootsie, and many more classic American movies) fled Vienna on a Kindertransport in January of 1939. She is a strong presence in the film talking about her experiences alongside other former child refugees.

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October 2024
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The Paper Brigade — Cultural Resistance in Vilna

October 27, 2024
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11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK

This film-and-discussion program tells the story of the cultural resistance group in Vilna known as “The Paper Brigade.” Led by the famed Yiddish poet Avrom Sutzkever, they risked their lives to rescue the cultural and literary heritage of the Jewish community in the “Jerusalem of Lithuania.”

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November 2024
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The Zookeeper’s Wife

November 10, 2024
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1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK

Jan and Antonina Zabinski were the managers of the Warsaw Zoo.  There, thanks to their efforts, 300 Jewish men, women, and children were hidden in animal cages and in their home from 1939 to 1945. This remarkable couple was named Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem. On the panel will be Diane Ackerman, author of the bestselling book The Zookeeper’s Wife, filmmaker Slawomir Grunberg and Stefania Sitbon, a living witness to this story.

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Royals at War

November 24, 2024
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1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK

This program examines the actions of the royal families of Europe during the Holocaust. The film Royals at War is in two episodes, both of which will be available to all who register.

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December 2024
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Here Lived…

December 8, 2024
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11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK

In our year-end program, we honor the German artist Gunter Demnig, creator of the Stolpersteine project. The film Here Lived opens as Demnig lays his 100,000th stone in Nuremberg. It retraces his work, journey and impact, through the stories of families of Holocaust victims and survivors. As their stories merge, we come to understand how the art project Demnig calls “social sculpture” has created a new way to help heal the Nazi horrors. This is one of the most unusual story-telling projects in history.

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January 2025
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Unbroken — One Family’s Story

January 26
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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.

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February 2025
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The Girl Who Wore Freedom

February 9
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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.

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