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tickets by donationSeptember 28, 2025
1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK
Walter Winchell, the newspaper columnist, radio commentator and television personality, pioneered the fast-paced, gossip-driven, politically charged journalism that dominates today. His on-air activism to his 50 million listeners during World War II helped to defeat the German American Bund, the US version of the Nazi party. While his post-war legacy is much more problematic, his enormously impactful wartime efforts are worthy of being remembered and celebrated.
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tickets by donationOctober 19, 2025
11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK
The Lost Music of Auschwitz tells the remarkable story of British composer Leo Geyer’s 8-year long mission to piece together a treasure-trove of forgotten fragments of music manuscripts found in the archives of the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum.
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tickets by donationOctober 26, 2025
1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK
Anne Frank’s father Otto’s recently discovered letters at New York’s YIVO archives reveal new information about the family’s struggle to obtain visas to save themselves from the clutches of the Nazis. The film No Asylum: The Untold Chapter of Anne Frank’s Story shares unknown details of the Frank family’s story before they went into hiding in the attic, and is a call to action for tolerance and respect. -
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tickets by donationNovember 2, 2025
1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK
Told largely through his own words and eloquent voice, Elie Wiesel — Soul on Fire seeks to penetrate to the heart of the known and unknown Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) — his passions, his conflicts and his legacy as one of the most public survivors of the trauma of the Holocaust. With unique access to personal archives, original interviews and employing hand-painted animation, the film illuminates Wiesel’s biography as a survivor, writer, teacher and public figure.
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free but registration requiredNovember 16, 2025
BOOK LAUNCH EVENT!
11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK
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A new children’s book about our hero! Author Elizabeth Brown and artist Melissa Castrillón have created a delightful new book about Aristides de Sousa Mendes for young readers titled The World Entire — A True Story of an Extraordinary World War II Rescue.
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tickets by donationDecember 7, 2025
4 PM LOS ANGELES • 7 PM NEW YORK
Chichinette: The Accidental Spy is an inspiring documentary about Marthe Hofnung Cohn, a feisty French Jewish woman who joined the French Army during WWII after Hitler’s rise to power. After remaining silent for nearly 60 years, Marthe began sharing her extraordinary story of resistance — how she used her language skills and blonde hair to pose as a German nurse, slipping behind enemy lines to gather critical intelligence that helped the Allies to win the war.
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tickets by donationJanuary 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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tickets by donationJanuary 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. -
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 Statesfree but registration requiredJanuary 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. -
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tickets by donationFebruary 3 - February 28
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