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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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tickets by donationFebruary 8
1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK
Hannah Arendt came of age in Germany as Hitler rose to power, before escaping to the United States as a Jewish refugee. Through her unflinching capacity to demand attention to facts and reality, Arendt made groundbreaking insights into totalitarianism, the refugee crisis and the human condition. She was a famous witness to the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem. -
tickets by donationFebruary 22
11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK
Yerusalem is an Israeli documentary that tells the story of the Ethiopian “Beta Israel” Jewish community and their journey to Israel, focusing on the “Operation Solomon” and “Operation Moses” airlifts of the 1980s and 1990s. The film explores the challenges and discrimination faced by Ethiopian Jews in Israel, particularly regarding their acceptance and integration into Israeli society, despite their long history of Jewish observance. -
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tickets by donationMarch 1
11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK
Henrietta Szold is among the most influential American Jewish women who ever lived. She founded Hadassah in 1912, a Jewish women’s service organization, that inspired hundreds of thousands of Jewish women to invest their energies in a cause that transcended their own personal lives. She also helped organize Youth Aliyah, which successfully rescued thousands of Jewish children from Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe during the 1930s and transported them to Palestine. The new film, Labors of Love, tells her inspiring story.