What would you do for love? Would you be willing to risk getting your heart broken? Most of us would. But would you risk getting killed? Years Later We Would Remember is the unforgettable true story of Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Martin Kent’s parents, and how his Catholic father stood up to the Nazis to protect the Jewish girl who stole his heart.
What would you do for love? Would you be willing to risk getting your heart broken? Most of us would. But would you risk getting killed? Years Later We Would Remember is the unforgettable true story of Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Martin Kent’s parents, and how his Catholic father stood up to the Nazis to protect the Jewish girl who stole his heart.
We are pleased to report that we recently completed on-camera studio interviews with three important figures in the world of Holocaust history, as well as the post-war history of Holocaust survivors. For more info, scroll past the video clips below, excerpted from the film. Visit us often, as we will continually be adding more and more clips and outtakes from our interviews. We are sure you will find our experts’ comments of great interest.
Michael Berenbaum is widely considered one of the world’s leading authorities on the Holocaust. The author of 14 books on the subject, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of Steven Spielberg’s Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. He was Project Director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum for 10 years, leading to its creation, and then Director of its Holocaust Research Institute.
Darlene Basch LCSW has been counseling patients dealing with Holocaust issues in workshops and private practice for more than 20 years. Ms. Basch worked for Steven Spielberg’s Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, where she developed and facilitated a worldwide debriefing program that trained people to interview survivors of the Holocaust, and traveled around the world training those interviewers.
Beth Cohen is the author of Case Closed: Holocaust Survivors in Postwar America (Rutgers University Press, 2007). Case Closed challenges the prevailing optimistic perception of the lives of Holocaust survivors in postwar America by scrutinizing their first years through the eyes of those who lived it. Cohen uncovers the heretofore-untold stories of survivors’ early years in America and reveals the complexity of their lives as new Americans. Ms. Cohen received her Ph.D. in Holocaust history from Clark University, and was a “Life Reborn” fellow at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies.
I grew up in the shadow of the Holocaust. No grandparents. No aunts and uncles around. In their place – big black holes. While my parents tried to shield me from the details of the horrors they experienced in Poland during the 1930s and ’40s, they couldn’t protect me from them. No one goes through [...]
We say it without thinking. We say it without question. Over and over, we recite the Pledge of Allegiance, learned in childhood. Every morning, Monday through Friday, 53 million schoolchildren, a new generation of Americans, place their hands on their hearts and utter these words: “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States [...]
(Excerpt from “Years Later We Would Remember,” a forthcoming memoir about going to Poland and discovering the horrors of the past) Warsaw, June 2, 2001 — When I awaken on my first full day in Poland, I look out the window and take in a gloomy, grey, rainy day. Ordinarily, this kind of weather depresses [...]
Please Note: This article first appeared on Wired.com Jan. 20, 2007. 1942: A malignant but unfocused policy of persecution turns into one of outright mass extermination at the Wannsee Conference. In a meeting lasting a little over six hours at a villa in the fashionable Berlin suburb of Wannsee, Nazi bureaucrats agree on a plan [...]
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., like all great visionaries, is remembered not so much for his courage, his determination, and his ability to inspire and lead, but ultimately, for the power of the ideas and things he [...]
Avatar half-tells a story we would all prefer to forget By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 11th January 2010 Avatar, James Cameron’s blockbusting 3-D film, is both profoundly silly and profound. It’s profound because, like most films about aliens, it is a metaphor for contact between different human cultures. But in this case the [...]
When you enter the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, and are about to enter the tour, you have a choice of doors. One is marked “Prejudiced.” The other door is marked “Unprejudiced.” But the second door, if one checks, is locked. The point of this is to immediately get you in touch with your [...]
The suicide bomber who blew himself up and killed seven C.I.A. officers has been identified as Humam Khalil Mohammed, a Jordanian physician. A double agent, who worked for the Jordanians, but also, it turns out, for Al Qaeda, where his loyalties obviously lay. While everyone is so shocked by the fact that he was, in [...]
OUR MISSION: CHOOSE LOVE OVER HATE.
It sounds like such an obvious choice, doesn't it? And yet, how often do we make the wrong choice? We just have to turn on the evening news to see. In schools, in the workplace, on the streets and in the marketplace. Our world has too long been divided by hatred, fear and misunderstanding. Hoping things will change is great, but it's not enough... Read More »
Harry Reid is No More Bigoted Than You or I
January 11, 2010When you enter the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, and are about to enter the tour, you have a choice of doors. One is marked “Prejudiced.” The other door is marked “Unprejudiced.” But the second door, if one checks, is locked. The point of this is to immediately get you in touch with your [...]