Yom HaShoah 5785

Attend this year’s Yom HaShoah Commemoration and program with speaker Paula Apsell, co-director of the documentary film Resistance: They Fought Back at Temple Emunah, on Wednesday, April 23 at 7 pm, services in the Wolk Chapel, commemoration in the Sanctuary.

“People have this myth stuck in their heads that Jews went to their deaths like sheep to the slaughter. But this is where the real story begins… Jews did not go as sheep to the slaughter… They fought back.” — Professor Richard Freund z”l

Watch this documentary film on your own. Resistance: They Fought Back is available to stream here without captions and here with captions. Then join with your Emunah community on Wednesday, April 23 and attend our Yom HaShoah commemoration where Paula Apsell, co-director of Resistance, will speak.

Resistance is described as a passionate refutation of one of society’s misunderstandings of the Holocaust, one which holds that Jews went to their deaths passively, “as sheep to the slaughter.” The film instead focuses on Jewish communities and individuals throughout Eastern Europe who bravely rose up in resistance against the all-powerful Nazi war machine.

Paula Apsell is the creator and co-director of the documentary Resistance: They Fought Back, which tells the heroic tale of Jews who fought back during the Holocaust in more than 60 armed rebellions, including six in death camps, and thousands of Jewish partisans in forests of Europe. Apsell was also the senior executive producer of the PBS NOVA science series for 33 years.