Fifteen hours of interviews describing the actions of a group of World War II-era diplomats who defied official policies to save tens of thousands of lives during the Holocaust have been added to USC Shoah Foundation’s 55,000-strong Visual History Archive (VHA) thanks to a collaboration with the Andrew J. & Joyce D. Mandell Family Foundation.

A screening of a film about the Holocaust, to be held Thursday at Mandell JCC in West Hartford, will be followed by a panel discussion on “The Mystery of Goodness,” about people who are compelled to help others at all costs.

A new project currently filming throughout Europe and Israel aims to document the stories of non-Jewish diplomats who defied orders and saved hundreds of thousands of Jews from the Nazis during World War II.

An upcoming documentary reveals the race against time to document the rare stories of the diplomats who saved hundreds of thousands of Jews from the Nazis during World War II.