With a wealth of archival footage and detailed re-enactments, this film recounts the incredible story of Emanuel Ringelblum, who secretly led a team of writers and intellectuals to preserve a vibrant Jewish culture in the Warsaw Ghetto shortly after the Nazis took over. What resulted was a startlingly deep and diverse portrait of European Jewish life, as the Oyneg Shabes…
Featuring Olivier Wieviorka (author), École Normale Supérieure de Paris-Saclay; Robert O. Paxton, Columbia University; and Mark Mazower, Columbia University. Olivier Wieviorka talks about his newly translated book, The Resistance in Western Europe, 1940–1945 (Columbia University Press, 2019), a sweeping analytical history of the underground anti-Nazi forces during World War II. Featuring responses by Robert O. Paxton and Mark Mazower.
Rupert Everett narrates this harrowing documentary about the persecution of homosexuals by the Nazis based on an obscure paragraph in Germany’s penal code dating back to 1871. Dir. Robert Epstein/Jeffrey Friedman 2000, 81 min. From GOETHE-INSTITUT NEW YORK