New documentary from Emmy Award®-winning filmmakers Paula S. Apsell and Kirk Wolfinger premieres Friday, May 10 in Los Angeles.
L.A. PREMIERE
Saturday, May 11, 7:10 p.m.
with Co-Director/Executive Producer Paula S. Apsell, Co-Director Kirk Wolfinger, Co-Executive Director of Jewish Story Partners Roberta Grossman, and actress and writer Romy Rosemont.
Sunday, May 12, 1:20 p.m.
with Co-Director/Executive Producer Paula S. Apsell and Co-Producer Yael Beals.
Monday, May 13, 7:10 p.m.
with Co-Director/Executive Producer Paula S. Apsell and Professor of Jewish & Holocaust Studies at American Jewish University, Dr. Michael Berenbaum.
Laemmle Theaters Town Center 5 | 1200 Venture Blvd. Encino, CA 91316
Premiering Friday, May 10 at Laemmle Theaters Town Center 5, with daily screenings through May 16.
ATTEND A SPECIAL Q&A SCREENING
Told by survivors, their children, and expert witnesses from the U.S. Israel, and Europe, RESISTANCE: THEY FOUGHT BACK is a revelation based on extensive research of how the Jews of Europe fought back. It uncovers evidence of non-violent methods which served as crucial tools of resistance and evolved into Jewish armed revolts in ghettos, forests and death camps, even as the odds of success were vanishingly small.
We’ve all heard of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, but most people have no idea how widespread and prevalent Jewish resistance to Nazi barbarism was. Instead, it’s widely believed “Jews went to their deaths like sheep to the slaughter.” Filmed in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Israel, and the U.S., RESISTANCE: THEY FOUGHT BACK provides a much-needed corrective to this myth of Jewish passivity. There were uprisings in ghettos large and small, rebellions in death camps, and thousands of Jews fought Nazis in the forests. Everywhere in Eastern Europe, Jews waged campaigns of non-violent resistance against the Nazis.
ABOUT THE FILM
Abramorama Acquires WWII Doc ‘Resistance – They Fought Back’ Spotlighting Jews Who Combatted Nazi War Machine
Abramorama has acquired North American rights to the documentary that spotlights Jewish resistance during WWII, from News & Documentary Emmy winners Paula S. Apsell and Kirk Wolfinger.
WATCH THE TRAILER
People have this myth stuck on their heads that Jews went to their death like sheep. But this is where the real story begins… Jews did not go as sheep to the slaughter… They fought back.
- Professor Richard Freund