Synopsis/Mission Statement

“The Rescuers – Last Chance Project is being developed, researched, and produced by Michael King Productions in association with USC/Shoah Foundation and the Andrew J. and Joyce D. Mandell Family Foundation. Michael W. 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. The Rescuers explores the little-known stories of diplomats who facilitated the survival of those persecuted during the Holocaust. We are currently working to identify those associated with—be they survivors and/or family members—diplomats who’ve been recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations. We are in a race against time to collect these stories of service. It is our “last chance” to document first-hand accounts of this chapter of the 20th century’s most indelible events.”