Events

1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK

Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction tells the heroic story of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat responsible for saving thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust by issuing them Swedish protective documents, opening protected safe houses, and more. The big mystery of what happened to Wallenberg following his arrest in 1945 by the Soviet liberators of Hungary is at the center of the film.

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11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK

Theodor Herzl was a lawyer, journalist, playwright, and political activist. He witnessed the rise in antisemitism in the late 19th century and was inspired to build a safe haven for the Jewish community. The new documentary Theodor Herzl: The Man Behind Israel explores Herzl’s legacy, the formation of the State of Israel and past and ongoing political conflicts.

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11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK

The film Outsider. Freud. follows Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, from his earliest experiences with antisemitism, through his meteoric career, and ending with his escape after the Anschluss from Vienna to London, where he spent the final months of his life.

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11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK

Julian Borger‘s family memoir I Seek a Kind Person — highlighted by The New York Times as one of the 100 must-read books of the year — is a gripping story of how the author’s Austrian Jewish father and other children were rescued through the placement of advertisements in British newspapers.

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1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK

See the award-winning film Four Winters, about partisan heroes of World War II, and then tune into the discussion, which will focus on the stories of partisan women heroes such as Faye Schulman, Chaya Palevsky, Gertrude Boyarski and others.

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1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK

A Force For Good is the biography of the heroic life of Gisela Warburg, a courageous young German Jewish woman and member of the celebrated Warburg family, who leveraged her wealth and family connections to save countless children from annihilation at the hands of the Nazis, also working with renowned personalities such as Henrietta Szold and Chaim Weizmann. This compelling story is told through a treasure trove of letters and documents carefully preserved by Gisela and recently discovered by her daughter, Anita Robboy, the book’s author.

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11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK

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1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK

Rose Valland’s unique role, that of a female spy working on behalf of the French Resistance, has long deserved its own special treatment. Michelle Young’s new book The Art Spy places Valland at the center of the action and illuminates aspects of her personal life and details about her spying methods that have received scant attention in the past.

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11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK

Portugal managed to get through all of World War II without firing a single shot. Caught in a vise between the Axis and the Allies, António Salazar, the country’s strongman, used every trick in the book to get his country through unscathed. Bruno Lorvão‘s documentary Lisbon and World War II: Spies, Gold and Diplomacy explores how the Portuguese dictator took advantage his country’s neutrality, and how the rescue action of Aristides de Sousa Mendes presented a threat to Salazar’s plans.

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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-occupied 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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