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Israelis and Americans recently marked the one-year anniversary of the October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel. While millions prayed and held vigils to remember the 1,200 who were killed and the 101 who remain in captivity today, pro-Hamas protesters flooded the streets of New York on the first-year anniversary. Some of them literally chased Jews in the streets.
“What is very obvious is that anyone who is marching for Gaza on October 7 is celebrating murder,” Brooke Goldstein, founder of the Lawfare Project, said on Fox News on October 8, 2024.
“They are chasing Jews in the streets of New York, and I am absolutely shocked. I honestly thought I would never see this happen in my lifetime being the grandchild of Holocaust survivors,” Goldstein said.
Over the weekend, I saw the movie White Bird in the theater. Given current events and the anti-Semitism plaguing our college campuses, it’s a timely movie.
In this movie, a kind, disabled teenager and his family hide a Jewish girl from capture by the Nazis in German-occupied France in the 1940s. The cinematography is beautiful. The acting is superb. The message is about elevating kindness to the point of it becoming a miracle for someone else. The romance in the movie is pure and innocent. The story also shows the self-sacrificing biblical heroism of being willing to lay down your life for your friends.
If you have children or grandchildren who are middle school or older, White Bird would be a great movie to discuss the Holocaust with them and today’s war in Israel in a child-appropriate way. There is tension and some violence in the movie, but it is not gruesome or gratuitous. It’s a great film to help people to better understand what is happening today, to never forget the Holocaust and to practice kindness in the face of evil.
If you want to learn more about the movie, here are some podcasts from the filmmakers and distributors behind the film.
Candace Cameron Bure and Andy Erwin
They discussed the movie Wonder. White Bird is the prequel to Wonder.
Andy Erwin and White Bird director
