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Interview with Leslie about the current climate surrounding the recognition of a Palestinian state

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The Last Ones Connects Holocaust Survivors to the Next Generations

The Last Ones, a multidimensional project incorporating video, podcasts, books and more, received a Federation grant to further its mission of creating a link between the last living Holocaust Survivors and younger generations.

Miami's Community News

Two films screen at The Miami Jewish Film Festival

Fara Sax welcomes Filmmaker Leslie Benitah whose two films screen at The Miami Jewish Film Festival

Miami Herald

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Miami-Dade students hear harrowing stories of survival

In North Miami, a film called “The Last Ones of Auschwitz,” also was set to screen Monday night after its premiere at the Miami Jewish Film Festival earlier this month. The film is a product of an organization called The Last Ones, which has traveled the world capturing and archiving hundreds of Holocaust survivor stories.

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Meet Leslie Benitah

We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Leslie Benitah a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

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The last ones of Auschwitz

In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, this moving documentary presents the powerful testimonies of the last remaining Holocaust survivors, with a special focus on those who endured the horrors of Auschwitz.

The Times Of Israel

Filmmaker Leslie Gelrubin Benitah sees the devastation wrought on Kibbutz Been during the Hamas assault of October 7, 2023.

Running from Jan. 9-23, the Miami Jewish Film Festival features 13 films dealing with the Hamas atrocities, to help combat denial of the tragedy and make victims’ voices heard.

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85th Annual Meeting Award Winners

Leslie Gelrubin Benitah was invited by a friend to attend a Greater Miami Jewish Federation Women’s Philanthropy meeting and came away deeply moved. Twelve years later, she maintains her connection to the Jewish people through her leadership in Federation and other Jewish causes.

Le Point

Sophie Nahum: "With the duty to remember, we're losing young people".

For nearly seven years, the creator of the “Les Derniers” project has been meeting the last witnesses to the Shoah. To hear their vision of the present and the future. And their cries of alarm.

Le Dauphiné Libéré

Le Prix Blum décerné à la réalisatrice Sophie Nahum

Le Prix Blum décerné à la réalisatrice Sophie Nahum. Une nouvelle lauréate même, en la personne de Sophie Nahum, productrice et réalisatrice, récompensée pour sa série documentaire sur les rescapés de la Shoah baptisée “Les Derniers”. Une série au format inédit qui met en lumière d’anciens déportés, rencontrés un à un, dont les paroles mises bout à bout forment des portraits et des épisodes aussi poignants qu’efficaces, d’une dizaine de minutes chacun, en libre accès sur internet et sur les réseaux sociaux.

WLRN

This South Florida storyteller documents the last Holocaust survivors

This South Florida storyteller documents the last Holocaust survivors. The past is very much the present for Leslie Gelrubin Benitah. She lives with it every day as she catalogs the stories of the last living Holocaust survivors.

Local 10 News

Florida State Senator Jason Pizzo talks about the influence of The Last Ones

Florida State Senator Jason Pizzo talks about the influence of The Last Ones and recognizes the work and dedication of Leslie Gelrubin Benitah in giving a voice to the last survivors of the Holocaust.

Vanity Fair

Story: Meeting the last survivors of the Holocaust

Soon, there won’t be a soul left to tell the story of the Holocaust in the first person singular. Director Sophie Nahum has tracked down the last survivors, and her series of short films, entitled “Les Derniers” (“The Last”), is a jewel of intelligence and humanity that is attracting a large audience on social networks. She tells Jacqueline Rémy about this odyssey.

L'Express

The documentary series "Les Derniers" (The Last Ones), based on the testimony of Holocaust survivors, is proving a big hit on TikTok. Interview with the project's producer and director, Sophie Nahum.

Testimonies on the Shoah: “TikTok is a gateway to reach young people”.

France Inter

The last witnesses of Auschwitz

They testify in front of the camera about what they experienced there… Months, years, of confinement, savagery as a rule, guards who make horror reign.

Le Point

"The Shoah was not committed by a humanity different from our own."

The filmmaker Sophie Nahum went to meet the last survivors in France. Between the duty to remember and fear for the future, they share their stories.

Franceinfo:culture

"The Last Ones": Sophie Nahum collects the words of Holocaust survivors.

“At no point can you understand or imagine for two seconds what they’ve been through, so my role is very simple, it’s to repeat their words, there’s nothing else I can do”.