Soon, Weapons of the Spirit—remastered 2024 edition
DuPont Columbia Documentary Award—shared with Ken Burns’ epic The Civil War series

Not Idly By—Peter Bergson, America and the Holocaust

hour-long documentary by Pierre Sauvage, freely available here for viewing through November!

Another largely unrecognized hero of that time is a man named Hillel Kook, a Jew from pre-Israel Palestine, who called himself Peter Bergson upon arriving in the U.S. in 1940. The challenging hour-long documentary Not Idly By—Peter Bergson, America and the Holocaust—which notably addresses the issue of how American Jews and their leaders responded to the crisis—is freely available for viewing through September at Not Idly By—Peter Bergson, America and the Holocaust.

“The U.S. and the Holocaust is sad, whereas Not Idly By is angry.
Bergson rages with a Hebrew prophet’s fury.”
Dara Horn's review of The U.S. and the Holocaust in The Atlantic

And soon, Weapons of the Spirit—remastered 2024 edition
DuPont Columbia Documentary Award—shared with Ken Burns’ epic The Civil War series

While “the U.S. slammed its doors,” as Weapons of the Spirit first recalled in 1989,
one small community in Nazi-occupied France engaged in a conspiracy of goodness.
The filmmaker returns to the area Le Chambon-sur-Lignon where he was born and sheltered.