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OUT OF FAITH, a feature-length documentary (82:00), follows three generations of a family torn apart by conflicts over interfaith marriage. The family's matriarch, Leah Welbel, and her husband Eliezer, both survived nearly three years in Auschwitz; however, in their minds, their grandchildren marrying non-Jews represents a posthumous victory for Hitler. OUT OF FAITH examines these issues by capturing the intimate details of one family's attempt to persevere in the face of a heart wrenching...
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Photographer Bill Aron chronicles Jewish life around the world - Bill Aron Personal Resume: I am perhaps best known for my photographs of Jewish communities around the world. My first book, chronicling the Jewish communities of the former Soviet Union, Cuba, Jerusalem, New York and Los Angeles entitled, From The Corners Of The Earth was published, with an introduction by Chaim Potok, by The Jewish Publication Society. I also recently collaborated with The Museum of the Southern Jewish...
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Author Kati Marton joins NECN's Chet Curtis to discuss her new book, "The Great Escape." It's the story of nine Jewish men who fled Hitler and changed the world.
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Bergen-Belsen was a Nazi concentration camp in Lower Saxony, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle. Between 1943 and 1945, an estimated 50,000 people died there, up to 35,000 of them dying of typhus in the first few months of 1945. On April 15, 1945, British forces liberated the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in northern Germany. Sixty-thousand prisoners were living in the camp when the troops arrived, most of them seriously ill. Thousands more lay dead and unburied on the camp...
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Thousands of Jewish teens and adults from around the world get together every year on the March of the Living and visit the sites of the Nazi death camps where the death marches and exterminations resulting in the loss of six million Jewish souls. Many thousands have taken this life-changing expedition - which often culminates in a visit to the Land of Israel. The truth is - every Jew alive today is a "survivor" of the Holocaust. Never Again!
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