The Jewish emigre community maintains cohesion and shares information about what is going on in Europe during World War II.

Composer Erich Korngold and his family are forced to stay in the U.S. as Hitler tightens his grip on Europe's Jewish community.

Renowned director Fritz Lang struggles to find his place in the Hollywood studio system upon his arrival in Los Angeles.

UFA studios, a giant of Berlin's cinema before World War II, starts firing Jewish employees under pressure from the Nazi party.

Billy Wilder is hired by the U.S. Army to document the horror of the Nazi concentration camps at the end of World War II in the film Death Mills.

Actress Hedy Lamarr arrives in Hollywood in 1937, and is quickly cast in her first feature, Algiers, in 1938.

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