Specials

(click on the pictures to watch the films)


The first film, produced by the University of California in Los Angeles, is an interview with engineer, entrepreneur and philanthropist Andrew Viterbi, developer of the Viterbi algorithm and co-founder of Qualcomm Inc., recently endowed the Viterbi Family Program in Mediterranean Jewish Studies at UCLA.
Viterbi talks about his early youth in fascist Italy; his family's emigration to America; his cousin, renowned Italian-Jewish author Primo Levi; the unusual experience of being an Italian Jew in the U.S.; and the millennia of Jewish history in the Mediterranean region.
 
 

The second is a 5-parts 1992 BBC documentary "PRIMO LEVI: THE MEMORY OF THE OFFENCE."
It reports about the tragic life story of Primo Levi with the use of literary quotations from his work and memories from his closest friends. He shows how the experience in Auschwitz turned a quiet chemist into an author who many regard to be the greatest writer of the holocaust.

 
 

The last is a 3-parts RAI Educational documentary produced by Italy's public television and presented by journalist Gianni Minoli (in Italian with English subtitles realized voluntarily by Luciano, an internet user who also uploaded the film on YouTube).
The film recounts the incredible story of an ordinary and humble Italian man who has done all his best to save the life of thousands Jews during the last months of war in Budapest.