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  • Lioness — Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel

    tickets by donation
    January 18

    1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK

    Golda’s War Diaries explores the secrets revealed in newly declassified files concerning Prime Minister Golda Meir’s time in office, and particularly her handling of the Yom Kippur War. The result is an intimate portrait of a leader in crisis yet very much in charge.

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  • Franceska Mann — Ballerina and Holocaust Hero

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    January 25

    11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK

    Franceska Mann was a Polish Jewish ballet dancer who killed a Nazi guard at Auschwitz and became an instant legend. Commanded to undress on her way to the gas chamber, she performed a striptease dance for the Nazi guard, seized his gun, and shot him dead. Her brazen act inspired an uprising among other prisoners. The film Francesca, directed by Lina Chaplin, tells her inspiring story.

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  • Panel Discussion in Conjunction with the Exhibition “Between Life and Death: Stories of Rescue During the Holocaust”

    Center for Jewish History 15 W 16th Street, New York, NY, United States
    free but registration required
    January 29

    6:00-8:30 PM NEW YORK

    This free panel discussion, with a reception, held at the Center for Jewish History, accompanies the exhibition Between Life and Death: Stories of Rescue during the Holocaust, on view at the United Nations from January 15 to February 20, 2026. The discussion will focus on acts of rescue, individual moral choices, and the legacy of human solidarity during one of the darkest periods in history.

  • 2026 Season Ticket Extension

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    February 3 - February 28
    There’s still time to obtain a 2026 Season Ticket for our popular online film-and discussion programs!

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  • Hannah Arendt and the Banality of Evil

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    February 8

    1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK

    Hannah Arendt came of age in Germany as Hitler rose to power, before escaping to the United States as a Jewish refugee. Through her unflinching capacity to demand attention to facts and reality, Arendt made groundbreaking insights into totalitarianism, the refugee crisis and the human condition. She was a famous witness to the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem.

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  • Operation Solomon — The Rescue of Ethiopia’s Jews

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    February 22

    11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK

    Yerusalem is an Israeli documentary that tells the story of the Ethiopian “Beta Israel” Jewish community and their journey to Israel, focusing on the “Operation Solomon” and “Operation Moses” airlifts of the 1980s and 1990s. The film explores the challenges and discrimination faced by Ethiopian Jews in Israel, particularly regarding their acceptance and integration into Israeli society, despite their long history of Jewish observance.

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  • Henrietta Szold — Her Mission Was Saving Lives

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    March 1

    11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK

    Henrietta Szold is among the most influential American Jewish women who ever lived. She founded Hadassah in 1912, a Jewish women’s service organization, that inspired hundreds of thousands of Jewish women to invest their energies in a cause that transcended their own personal lives. She also helped organize Youth Aliyah, which successfully rescued thousands of Jewish children from Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe during the 1930s and transported them to Palestine. The new film, Labors of Love, tells her inspiring story.

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  • Khaled — The Tunisian Schindler

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    March 15

    11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK

    Khaled is the story of Khaled Abdul Wahab, an Arab Muslim photographer who saved twenty-four Jews during the Nazi occupation of Tunisia. Learn about this remarkable man and his story and meet the son of one of the people that he saved.

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  • Resisting Nazism

    free but registration required
    March 29

    1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK

    Nazism has always faced resistance: from the German artists who caricatured the Nazis in the 1920s, or the man who infiltrated the SS to try and expose the Holocaust in the 1940s, or the people who uncovered former Nazis as part of a groundbreaking documentary in the 1970s. Resisting Nazism is the first book to connect such stories, painting a vivid picture of resistance to hatred and extremism across the generations.

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  • Raoul Wallenberg Reconsidered

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    April 12

    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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