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January 2023
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Symphony of Courage

January 22, 2023
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1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK

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Symphony of Courage from filmmaker Beth Mendelson shines a light on Portugal as a safe haven once again for fleeing refugees. It tells the story of the evacuation of the students of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM) following the Taliban takeover, after music was outlawed. ANIM’s director Dr. Ahmad Sarmast worked with an international team of philanthropists, politicians, and musicians to facilitate their rescue to Lisbon — their new home, where they can play music once again in a free and open society.

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A Voice Among the Silent — The Legacy of James G. McDonald

January 29, 2023
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11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK

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A Voice Among the Silent is the first film to shine a light on James G. McDonald’s efforts to warn the US government of Hitler’s plan for the Jews. The son of Catholic immigrants, he was one of the first Americans to meet face-to-face with Hitler in 1933. This frightening encounter changed his life and plunged him into the effort to rescue Jews. Later, he was appointed as the first US Ambassador to Israel, and in this role he helped shape US policy and aid towards Israel for generations to come.

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February 2023
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Marcel Marceau and the French Resistance

February 5, 2023
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11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK

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The great French mime Marcel Marceau was the son of a kosher butcher who was murdered at Auschwitz. Following his father’s deportation, Marcel joined the French Resistance, assisting his cousin Georges Loinger in escorting Jewish children from Nazi-occupied France to neutral Switzerland. He used his artistry and charisma to engage with the children and keep them quiet during their long and perilous trek to freedom. Later he gave his first major performance to 3000 US troops after the liberation of Paris in August 1944.

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In the Garden of the Righteous

February 12, 2023
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1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK

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Richard Hurowitz‘s new book In the Garden of the Righteous from HarperCollins chronicles the heroes and heroines who not only rescued Jews from the Holocaust but also, as Golda Meir once said, “saved hope and faith in the human spirit.”

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The Waldheim Waltz

February 19, 2023
Waldheim Waltz

11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK

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Ruth Beckermann‘s film The Waldheim Waltz is about truth, lies and how a dishonest man can rise to power. The film documents the process of uncovering former UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim’s wartime past. It shows the swift succession of new allegations by the World Jewish Congress during his Austrian presidential campaign, the denial by the Austrian political class, the outbreak of anti-Semitism and patriotism, which finally led to his election. Created from international archive material and what Beckermann shot at the time, the film shows that history repeats itself time and time again. Winner of the Berlin International Film Festival.

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The Freedom Line

February 26, 2023
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1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK

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Compared to Casablanca by The Washington Post, this is a page–turning story of a group of resistance workers who rescued downed Allied fighter pilots and spirited them through France and into safety in Spain during World War II. 

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March 2023
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A Protest to the World: The Dramatic Story of Szmul Artur Zygielbojm

March 5, 2023
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1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK

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Szmul Artur Zygielbojm was a Polish Jewish socialist politician and member of the Polish Government-in-Exile in London during World War II. A lifelong activist, he is most famous for his final act of protest to the world against the indifference of the Allies to the fate of Europe’s Jews. In this richly multimedia and life-affirming film-and-discussion program, Dr. Jud Newborn interweaves his thrilling discovery of Zygielbojm’s lost artifacts with an elegy to the lost world of the Jewish shtetl.

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Remembrance in Germany Today — Stories of Hope

March 12, 2023
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11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK

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Nowadays, 90 years after Hitler seized power, Germany has a vibrant remembrance culture aimed at raising public consciousness about the crimes of the past and the importance of standing up against bigotry and in support of democracy. Much of the most meaningful work is being done by unsung volunteers in towns and villages across the country

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Yankee Resistance: The Story of a Small Connecticut Town that Challenged the Nazis and Won

March 19, 2023
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1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK

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In 1937 the German-American Bund bought land in Southbury, CT with plans to build Camp General Von Steuben, a Hitler-Youth style camp. However, the residents of the small town chose to find a way to stop this from happening. The newspapers across the country picked up the story about the small town of 1300 residents who were ready to fight against the seemingly powerful Bund, which many believed was controlled directly by Hitler.

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Into the Arms of Strangers

March 26, 2023
INTO THE ARMS OF STRANGERS

11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK

This prizewinning film tells the touching and heartwarming stories of Jewish children from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia saved in England in 1938-39 under the Kindertransport program, prior to the onset of World War II.

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