All posts by Shuli Eshel

Shuli Eshel, Israeli born Chicago filmmaker, is an award winning producer-director of documentaries dealing with the arts, politics, social and historical matters. Among her documentaries are To be a Woman-Soldier, the role of women in the Israeli Army, Women’s Peace in the Middle East, Israeli and Palestinian women in the forefront of the Peace effort, Mudpeoples: A Portrait of Clay Artist Marva Jolly, that premiered at the Art Institute of Chicago & aired on WTTW and Illinois Women Artist: the New Millennium, that premiered at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.
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Rafael Medoff: Chicago filmmaker focusing on U.S. diplomat who warned of Holocaust

Rafael Medoff : Chicago filmmaker focusing on U.S. diplomat who warned of Holocaust.

By Rafael Medoff (09/14/2012)

Israeli-American filmmaker Shuli Eshel has produced and directed critically acclaimed documentaries about topics ranging from Jewish women in sports to grassroots Arab-Jewish peacemaking efforts. Now the Chicago-based Eshel is turning her attention to one of the last untold stories of the Holocaust: the little-known one-man campaign by U.S. diplomat James G. McDonald to expose Hitler’s genocidal plans and rescue Jews from the clutches of the Nazis. McDonald recorded his insights in a diary that was recently discovered and published by Indiana University Press, in association with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC. Continue reading Rafael Medoff: Chicago filmmaker focusing on U.S. diplomat who warned of Holocaust →