Community-Wide Kristallnacht Observance: The 89th Anniversary of the November Pogrom

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*All registered participants will receive a link to screen the film at home one week prior to the event date.

A Conversation with Paula S. Apsell, Executive Producer and Co-Director of Resistance: They Fought Back

Paula S. Apsell has been recognized with numerous individual awards for her work, including the 2018 Lifetime Achievement Emmy of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the first science journalist to be so honored. She founded Leading Edge Productions to make documentaries of scientific, cultural, and historical importance. She has now completed a feature documentary about Jewish resistance during the Holocaust entitled Resistance: They Fought Back. Recently released, the documentary has been selected for screening in more than 20 film festivals and Holocaust institutions in the U.S. and abroad.

Resistance: They Fought Back

We’ve all heard of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, but most people have no idea how widespread and prevalent Jewish resistance to Nazi barbarism was. Instead, it’s widely believed “Jews went to their deaths like sheep to the slaughter.” Filmed in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Israel, and the U.S., Resistance: They Fought Back provides a much-
needed corrective to this myth of Jewish passivity. There were uprisings in ghettos large and small, rebellions in death camps, and thousands of Jews fought Nazis in the forests. Everywhere in Eastern Europe, Jews waged campaigns of non-violent resistance against the Nazis.

Held in partnership with Raab/Goodwin Esther Raab Holocaust Museum & Goodwin Education Center