Events
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free but registration requiredJuly 27, 2025
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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free but registration requiredAugust 17, 2025
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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tickets by donationAugust 24, 2025
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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tickets by donationSeptember 14, 2025
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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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.