Apr

21 2020

Movie Mavens

1:30PM - 3:00PM  

JCC of Middlesex County 1775 Oak Tree Road
Edison, NJ 08820
732.494.3232 shorwitz@jccmc.org
http://www.jccmc.org

Contact Sue Horwitz
732.494.3232
shorwitz@jccmc.org
http://www.jccmc.org

In Recognition of Yom HaShoah
MOVIE MAVENS
“In Our Own Hands - The Hidden
Story of the Jewish Brigade in World War II”

The final weeks of World War II. His Majesty's
Jewish Brigade - the only all-Jewish fighting unit in the
war - goes into combat against the hated Nazis...and
comes away victorious. It is after the war, though, that
the real story of the Brigade begins. Amidst the chaos
of post-war Europe, and under the noses of the
occupying Allied armies, the young Jewish soldiers
mastermind one clandestine operation after the next:
forming secret vengeance squads to assassinate Nazi
officers in hiding...engineering the rescue and illegal
movement of Holocaust survivors to Palestine. Later, in
1948, Brigade veterans help organize and lead the
fledgling Israel Defense Forces in their new country's
War of Independence. From the trenches of Northern
Italy to the refugee camps of war-torn Europe, In Our
Own Hands unravels the thrilling tale of young Jewish
soldiers who carried the weight of a people on their
shoulders.