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The Paper Brigade — Cultural Resistance in Vilna
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.”
The Zookeeper’s Wife
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.
Royals at War
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.
Here Lived…
11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK
Photography as Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Paris
11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK
In a remarkable discovery, an album containing clandestine unsigned photographs of Nazi-occupied Paris was found at a Paris flea market in 2020. This collection, initially shrouded in mystery, has been attributed to Raoul Minot, an amateur photographer who risked his life to document the era.
Unbroken — One Family’s Story
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.
The Girl Who Wore Freedom
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.
The Eichmann Trial
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.
NOVA’s Holocaust Escape Tunnel
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.
Sugihara Survivors
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.