Holocaust Remembrance: April 11, 2010

Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust in Arab Lands

Monday, April 12 at 10:00 pm
Tuesday, April 13 at 4:00 pm
Did any Arabs save Jews during the Holocaust? Robert Satloff, head of a Washington policy center, set off on an eight-year journey to find out, seeking an Arab hero whose story would change the way Arabs view Jews, themselves and their own history. This MacNeil/Lehrer production follows his journey, on which he found not only the Arab heroes he sought, but a lost history of what happened to the Jews of North Africa. Robert MacNeil narrates.
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Blessed is the Match

Saturday, April 17 at 10:40 pm
This documentary film spotlights Hannah Senesh, the World War II-era poet and diarist who became a paratrooper and resistance fighter and who, on a mission to rescue Jews in her native Hungary, was captured, tortured and executed by the Nazis. Joan Allen narrates. From Independent Lens.
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The Diary of Anne Frank

Sunday, April 11 at 9:00 pm
The powerful "The Diary of Anne Frank" dramatizes the two years that the Jewish teenager, her family and four others hid in a secret annex above her father's office in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. Ellie Kendrick is mesmerizing as the intense, headstrong teen. From Masterpiece Classic.
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House of Life: The Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague

Friday, April 16 at 10:00 pm
Prague’s Old Jewish Cemetery, a place of haunting beauty and mystery, has endured wars and pogroms, floods and fires, assimilation, Nazi occupation, neglect under communism, and an urban clearing project that destroyed most of the ancient Jewish Quarter it once served. This film tells the story of Prague’s Jewish community and spotlights the people who are devoted to the preservation of this special place.
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Worse Than War

Wednesday, April 14 at 9:00 pm
Thursday, April 15 at 3:00 pm
Based on Daniel Goldhagen’s book of the same title, this film explores the nature of genocide, ethnic cleansing and large-scale mass murder in our time. Goldhagen speaks with victims, perpetrators, witnesses, religious leaders, politicians, diplomats, historians, humanitarian aid workers and journalists.
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VivaLaVoce will observe Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 11 throughout the broadcast day. Among the works featured will be songs by acclaimed Washington area composer Lori Laitman. She has created a unique body of work commemorating the Holocaust, including a one-act opera, several song cycles, and a soon-to-be-premiered Holocaust oratorio, Vedem.

Classical WETA's VivaLaVoce is a new channel devoted to classical vocal music in all its forms, from the Middle Ages to the present, 24 hours per day. The channel features opera, choral music, and art song, and is produced, programmed, and hosted by the Classical WETA staff. The station can be heard online and on HD channel 90.9-2.

Secrets of the Dead: Escape from Auschwitz

Nazi records show that tens of thousands of Jews from German-occupied territories were sent to Auschwitz to be executed each month. But two Auschwitz prisoners, Rudolph Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, were determined to expose the horrors of the Nazi genocide and stop the killing factories forever. To do that, they had to become the first to escape from the heavily-guarded camp.
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Great Conversations: Elie Wiesel

History made him a witness to the Holocaust and he has dedicated life to sharing the truth of what he saw. Elie Wiesel is a writer, a teacher, and a peacemaker who works to bring enemies together. His efforts have been honored by the Nobel Peace Prize. In 2000, Wiesel talked about his life and work with Gustav Niebuhr, religious correspondent for the New York Times.
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