Rescuers Last Chance Project

King and Joyce D. Mandell, creators and producers of the 2011 award-winning documentary The Rescuers featuring renowned historian Sir Martin Gilbert, lead this new project.

With that developed “The Rescuer Last Chance Project,” a ‘race against time’ to identify the people who knew the remaining diplomats and Holocaust survivors who benefited from their assistance, to tell those stories.

Over the course of three months filming of survivors, second generation, and family members of the Righteous was done across Israel, Sweden, The Netherlands, France, Spain, and Portugal.

In the starting months of 2024, filming was done in Phoenix, Arizona, Boca Raton, Florida, and Brooklyn, New York of family members of the Righteous and also of 2nd generation and survivors rescued by these diplomats.

[2] On Thursday, September 22nd, 2022, a remastered version of The Rescuers was shown for one night only at The Mandell JCC to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the film’s release.