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January 29, 2012 from 9:30 AM

Who were the Jewish partisans of World War II?
What circumstances led them to live in the forests and take up arms against the Germans and their collaborators?
What ethical dilemmas did they face in order to survive?

Join Mitch Braff as he uses short films and video clips from original interviews to explore the history and legacy of these courageous men and women.

Mitch Braff is the founder and Executive Director of the Jewish Partisan Education Foundation. As one of the leading experts on the subject, he consulted on the 2009 full length film Defiance. Using skills garnered in his former career as an award winning filmmaker for PBS and as the principal in a San Francisco-based media company, Braff conducted interviews with living partisans all over the word and created JPEF study guides, shot films, and created an educational website, http://www.jewishpartisans.org.

Exploring the World of Judaism is a program of Congregation Shir Hadash and the Bureau of Jewish Education and is supported in part by the Newton and Rochelle Becker Charitable Trust.

Contact: Nadine Toby, nadine@shirhadash.org, 408-358-1751 x5
Organization: Congregation Shir Hadash
Website Link: http://www.shirhadash.org/calendar/e/02250
Location: 20 Cherry Blossom Lane, Los Gatos

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