2011
January 2011
Monday 24 January 2011
Mon 24 Jan, 7 pm. 401 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, 19103. 215-446-3045, helgart@phillyjcc.com. Gershman Y Jewish Community Center - [events]
Director: Richard Trank Date 2009 Country USA R/T 98 minutes Monday, January 24, 7 pm $10 General Admission; $9: Seniors/Students/Young Friends Against the Tide sheds light on the role of the Roosevelt Administration during the Holocaust. Highlighting a rare 1977 interview with the young activist Peter Bergson, we learn of Bergson’s resolve in challenging Washington and the American-Jewish establishment. Why wasn’t the rescue of six million European Jews the top-priority for Jews living in the United States? Why was it easier to glean support from non-Jewish members of Congress and Jewish Hollywood personalities, such as Ben Hecht, Edward G. Robinson, and Paul Muni? With depictions of the doomed Jews of Europe and the leaders of Polish Jewry whose faith i