“You survive, you honor us by living,” Martin Greenfield, a New York master tailor and Holocaust survivor, says in the PBS documentary “The Jewish Journey: America.” His quote could be taken as the theme of the 86-minute film tracking 350 years of Jewish immigration to America.
German Jews board a ship bound for America photo/pbs-courtesy national archives and records administration
“Jewish Journey” will premiere locally at 6 p.m. Sunday, March 8, on KQED-Channel 9 and KQED Life. It spans time from the first Jews to arrive on American shores — 23 Sephardim who fled the Portuguese Inquisition in Brazil in 1654 and settled in New Amsterdam (now New York) — through the 20th century.
Each KQED showing will be followed by “In Line for Anne Frank,” a 66-minute 2014 documentary filmed at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. — jta