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- TV Mini SeriesThe Rescuers-Last Chance Project is being produced by Emmy award-winning filmmaker Michael W. King in association with USC/Shoah Foundation and the Andrew J. and Joyce D. Mandell Family Foundation. King and Joyce D. Mandell, creators and producers of the 2011 award-winning documentary The Rescuers, featuring renowned historian Sir Martin Gilbert, lead this new project. The Rescuers explores the little-known stories of diplomats who facilitated the survival of those persecuted during the Holocaust. We are currently working to identify those associated with-be they survivors or family members-diplomats who've been recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations. We are in a race against time to collect these stories of service. It is our "last chance" to document first-hand accounts of this chapter of the 20th century's most indelible events. This project will contribute to The Andrew J. and Joyce D. Mandell Rescuers Collection Andrew J and Joyce D. Mandell Family Foundation at the USC/Shoah Foundation for Holocaust Education, Media Arts, and Cultural History.
- The film traces the journey of Stephanie Nyombayire, a young Rwandan anti-genocide activist who teams up with Sir Martin Gilbert, the renowned Holocaust historian, to travel across 15 countries and three continents interviewing survivors and descendants of the diplomats who rescued tens of thousands of Jews from the unspeakable horrors of the Nazi death camps. While Nyombayire embarks upon this quest in an effort to uncover potential solutions for the ongoing genocide in Darfur and elsewhere, what emerges from their journey is more a testament to the ways in which the inherent good in the human spirit can trump institutional evil no matter what the circumstance.