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Please join us for our annual Yom HaShoah Commemoration on May 7, 2024 at 7pm in the Rabbi Samuel Chiel Sanctuary. In addition to our yearly rituals we are privileged to be able to show in its entirety Paula Apsell’s film, “Resistance- They Fought Back”. In these challenging times for our people we will certainly be inspired to learn of Jewish resistance during the period of the Holocaust. Paula will speak after the film’s showing and take questions. This will be an evening of supreme consequence to our TE community.
About The Film
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.
