Film Screening
Events
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tickets by donationNovember 24, 2024
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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tickets by donationDecember 8, 2024
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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tickets by donationJanuary 26, 2025
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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tickets by donationFebruary 9, 2025
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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tickets by donationFebruary 23, 2025
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.
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free but registration requiredMarch 9, 2025
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.
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tickets by donationMarch 23, 2025
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.
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tickets by donationApril 6, 2025
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.
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tickets by donationMay 4, 2025
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.
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tickets by donationMay 11, 2025
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.