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PAST SCREENINGS OF THE WORK-IN-PROGRESS
NOT IDLY BY—PETER BERGSON, AMERICA AND THE HOLOCAUST

The work-in-progress was screened in short versions beginning in 2009.
The final version (58 min.) will be released in late 2017.

Winner, documentary award, Toronto Jewish Film Festival

NEW YORK Center for Jewish History
Screening and panel discussion with filmmaker Pierre Sauvage and historians Richard Breitman, Jonathan Karp, and Laurel Leff. Sponsored by the Center for Jewish History, the American Jewish Historical Society, and the Varian Fry Institute.

ZAGREB JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL
with Weapons of the Spirit

WARSAW JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL

TORONTO JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL
Winner, documentary award

LOS ANGELES Temple Israel of Hollywood
Yom Hashoah/Holocaust Commemoration service
with address by Pierre Sauvage

NEW YORK Museum of Jewish Heritage: Pierre Sauvage Retrospective
    screening, followed by interview of filmmaker by author and Vanity Fair writer-at-large Marie Brenner
    * Yiddish: The Mother Tongue
    * Weapons of the Spirit
    * excerpts from feature work-in-progress And Crown Thy Good: Varian Fry in Marseille

PHILADELPHIA 40th Anniversary Scholars' Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches
Crisis & Credibility in the Jewish Christian World: Remembering Franklin Littell
screening with discussion with Pierre Sauvage
with We Were There: Franklin Littell Confront the Holocaust, a documentary short work-in-progress by Pierre Sauvage

JERUSALEM JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL
screening and Pierre Sauvage retrospective
    * Yiddish: The Mother Tongue
    * Weapons of the Spirit
    * excerpts from feature work-in-progress And Crown Thy Good: Varian Fry in Marseille
    * Not Idly By—Peter Bergson, America and the Holocaust

CHICAGO Lessons and Legacies
Holocaust scholars’ conference: paper and screening

LOS ANGELES American Jewish University
screening under the auspices of Dr. Michael Berenbaum

ENCINO, CA Temple Valley Beth Shalom
screening followed by panel discussion with Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis, Rabbi Ed Feinstein, and Pierre Sauvage

ORANGE, CA Association of Holocaust Organizations convention
Chapman University

LOS ANGELES Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival

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NOT IDLY BY—PETER BERGSON, AMERICA AND THE HOLOCAUST

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