The Jewish Channel: "Amen" Trailer

Oscar-winner Costa-Gavras' story of a renegade Nazi chemist who took on the Catholic Church.
A trailer for the film produced by The Jewish Channel.
TJC is currently running "Amen" in its lineup, which is available on Channel 291 on Cablevision's iO Digital Cable.

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[josealonsoleon]

Why is the TJC not uploading this film complete on YouTUbe. This is the kind of film the whole world needs to see FREE.

[nanioushka]

I agree!

[soulflower666]

@josealonsoleon ...Amen

[ThePalmetadon]

...we speake englis...

[mokacode]

the little priest should have better thrown his cassock to the flames and set up something to help rescuing jews.Whatever symbolic his attitude in the end, it didn't change anything at all...

[philomeneraymonde]

Thanks of the Jews towards the Pie XII Pope the shortly after the war .

In 1943 Chaim Weizmann, which will become later the first Israeli president, writes that the Holy See lends its powerful support in order to improve the fate of my persecuted brothers.

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[philomeneraymonde]

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At the time of a meeting with the Pope at the end of the war, Moshe Sharett, the second Prime Minister Israeli, known as my duty was to say to them thank you to him and the Catholic church in the name of all the Jews for all that they had done in the occupied countries.

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[philomeneraymonde]

.../... The Chief rabbi of Israel Isaac Herzog sends a message in 1944 when he declares that : the Israeli people will never forget what the Pope and his delegates do for our unhappy brothers and sisters in the darkest hours of our history. They are inspired by the principles of the religion which are the bases of the true civilization. It is the proof of the existence of divine Providence in this world. In September 1945 Leon Kubowitzy, General secretary of the world Jewish Congress,

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[philomeneraymonde]

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personally thanks the Pope for his various interventions and made gift, in the name of the Congress, of 20.000 $ with works of the Vatican in recognition of the assistance brought by the Holy See to the Jews persecuted by Fascism and the Nazism. When in 1955 Italy celebrates the tenth birthday of its release, the Union of the Italian Jewish communities declares that on April 17 will be the Day of the Recognition for the help brought by the Pope during the war.

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[philomeneraymonde]

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On May 26, 1955 the Philharmonic orchestra of Israel goes to the Vatican there to interpret the Seventh Symphony of Beethoven and to thus express the eternal recognition of Israel towards the Pope for the help brought to the Jews during the Holocaust. The Philharmonic orchestra of Israel n' forever played the music of Richard Wagner (and this for political reasons) because in the Fifties the Israeli public still regards Wagner as the one of the symbols of the Nazi regime.

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[philomeneraymonde]

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This for a simple reason : the survivors of the Holocaust still formed an important fringe of the Israeli population. It is impossible to think that the Israeli government could pay the voyage orchestrates it to pay homage to the Pope of Hitler. On the contrary, the concert without precedent of the Israeli Philharmonic orchestra is a single gesture of collective gratitude towards a large friend of the Jewish people.

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