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April 2025
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Let My People Go — The Women Who Began the Movement to Rescue Soviet Jews

April 6
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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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May 2025
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Fred Korematsu — An American Hero

May 4
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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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Family Treasures Lost & Found — One Woman’s Search for Answers

May 11
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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. 

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June 2025
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Aristides de Sousa Mendes — The Angel of Bordeaux

June 1
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11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK

The film The Consul of Bordeaux is a semi-fictionalized feature film based on the story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes and the families he saved. Please join us for this free program on our inspiring hero!

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The Jewish History of Comic Book Superheroes

June 8
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1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK

Do you know the secret Jewish history of comic books? Have you heard the Jewish stories behind iconic characters such as Superman and Spider-Man? And how comic books have portrayed the Holocaust? Tune into this free program to find out.

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The Last Nazi Hunter

June 22
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11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK

The film The Last Nazi Hunter tells the dramatic true story of Dr. Efraim Zuroff and his decades long efforts to bring Nazi war criminals to justice. See the film and then meet him in person. A rare opportunity!  Zuroff will be in dialogue with Dr. Mordecai Paldiel, who will also speak about a few individuals who were both Nazi collaborators and rescuers of Jews, and how Yad Vashem handled such cases.

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July 2025
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The Daring Rescue of Denmark’s Jewish Community

July 27
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11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK

The collective rescue action that saved about 95% of the Danish Jewish population in October 1943 is a unique story in the annals of Holocaust rescue. New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage currently has on view a must-see exhibition about this story, designed for young people, ages 9 and up, and their families. Meet the curator who created this exhibition, the historian who consulted on it and a Holocaust survivor who was himself born in Denmark.

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August 2025
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Cartoonists Against Racism: The Secret Jewish War on Bigotry

August 17
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BOOK LAUNCH EVENT!

1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK

Cartoonists Against Racism uncovers the secret campaign spearheaded by the American Jewish Committee to create anti-racist comics and cartoons to flood America’s newspapers, classrooms, and union halls during World War II. Meet the artists and the work that was their ammunition in the battle for America’s soul.

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Women’s Resistance at Auschwitz

August 24
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11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK

Sabotage tells the dramatic and unknown story of the women’s underground operation in Auschwitz-Birkenau. It is a story of feminine heroism, resistance, hope and tragedy, told through the eyes of Anna Heilman, sister of Estera Wajcblum, the youngest member of the women’s resistance group, that also included Róza Robota, Ella Gärtner and Regina Safirsztajn. These heroic women, whose names we should remember, helped plan and implement the Sondercommando Revolt of October 7, 1944.

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September 2025
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Operation Wedding — The Story of Soviet Jews Who Cracked the Iron Curtain

September 14
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11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK

Leningrad, 1970. A group of Soviet Jews who were denied exit visas plots to hijack an empty plane and escape the USSR. 45 years later, filmmaker Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov reveals the compelling story of her parents, leaders of the group, “heroes” in the West but “terrorists” in Russia, even today.

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