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“We Must Save the Children” — The Newly-Uncovered Story of the Heroic Railway Workers of Lille, France
11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK
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On September 11, 1942, a spontaneous rescue action occurred in Lille, France. On that day, the Jews of Lille were arrested and brought to the railyard, from where they awaited deportation. The rail workers, realizing what was happening, created an instant rescue network to remove as many Jews as possible from the railyard, particularly the children, and spirit them to safety, right under the noses of the Nazi guards. The film Sauvons les enfants tells that remarkable story for the first time. In 2020 the station master was named Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem.
Visas for Life — The Sousa Mendes Story
The Sousa Mendes Foundation presents a five-part film series created in partnership with Portuguese television. The series, called Visas for Life, traces the stories of numerous families saved by the Portuguese Consul General in Bordeaux, France, Aristides de Sousa Mendes. Join us each week for a new episode.
Navalny
Not to be missed! See the film that won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2023. Learn about Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader and political prisoner who stood up to Putin. Meet our stellar panel of guests.
Germans Against Hitler — The Story of the Helmrich Couple, Holocaust Rescuers
11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK
Eberhard and Donata Helmrich, from Berlin, were anti-Nazis throughout the Nazi period. A major in the German army, Eberhard was the commander of a large farm in Drohobycz, Poland, supplying the German army with food. Almost two-thirds of his 300 workers were Jews from the nearby ghetto, and thanks to his efforts many of them were saved from arrest or the periodic roundups. Donata saved women by finding housekeeping jobs for them in Berlin under false identities. When asked for the reason of their help at great risks to themselves, the Helmrichs responded, “We figured that once we saved two people we’d be even with Hitler if we were caught, and every person saved beyond that would put us one ahead.” Eberhard and Donata Helmrich were honored by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations.
Hubert Humphrey and Human Rights
1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK
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Join Samuel Freedman and Jane Eisner as they discuss Freedman’s new book, Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights. Their discussion will focus on Humphrey’s fight against antisemitism in post-World War II America.
Otto Weidt — A Blind Hero
11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK
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Otto Weidt was a visually impaired Holocaust rescuer who was named Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem. He owned a workshop in Berlin that manufactured brushes and brooms created by visually impaired workers, many of whom were Jewish. During the Nazi period he found hiding places for his Jewish employees, with the help of his sighted assistant Alice Licht. When Licht herself was deported to Auschwitz, Weidt traveled to the concentration camp, alone, to try to save her. A unique story of love and determination!
Lisbon — Harbor of Hope
11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK
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View Pavel Schnabel‘s award-winning film, Lisbon — Harbor of Hope, then join us for the discussion. The film follows several Jewish families who escaped Nazi Germany to Lisbon from 1933-38, before the outbreak of war. For those families it was still permissible to settle in Portugal, and the film interviews several of these survivors. The Sousa Mendes story is also told, through the diplomat’s son, Pedro Nuno de Sousa Mendes, who was a witness and participant in his father’s rescue action.
Return to Life! The Story of Lena’s 100 Children
11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK
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The film My 100 Children tells the story of Lena Kuchler-Silberman, a Holocaust survivor and teacher in Poland who established an orphanage for 100 Jewish children in Zakopane, Poland in 1945 and later brought them to Israel. Lena was a surrogate mother to these children — she clothed them, fed them, listened to their stories and gave them hope again.
Among the Righteous — Arab Rescuers of Jews
11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK
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*** PLEASE NOTE DATE OF NOVEMBER 12 (CHANGED FROM OCTOBER 15) ***
Not to be missed! Few people know that the Holocaust extended beyond the European continent, into the North African countries of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya. There, Nazi Germany, Vichy France and Fascist Italy sent thousands of Jews to forced labor and set up dozens of concentration camps for both local Jews and Jewish refugees from Europe. For 20 years, Dr. Robert Satloff has been on a quest to find Arabs who rescued Jews from this persecution. The result is the powerful film, Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust in Arab Lands, and a companion book.
Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die
1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK
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Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die? is a 1982 documentary film that asks whether the United States could have stopped the Holocaust. The film combines previously classified information, rare newsreel footage, and interviews with the politicians who were in office at the time, to tell a behind-the-scenes story of secret motives and inane priorities that allowed for the deaths of millions.