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We'll Meet Again

Join Ann Curry for a new series featuring dramatic reunions of people whose lives crossed at pivotal moments. View history through their eyes and hear stories of heroism, hope and the forging of unbreakable bonds.

The Fight for Women’s Rights

54m 20s

Join Ann Curry as two women search for friends and colleagues who forged a path for equal rights. One of the first female commercial pilots wants to thank her mentor, and an advocate hopes to find the woman who inspired her to join a movement.

Episodes

  • The Fight for Women’s Rights: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The Fight for Women’s Rights

    S2 E6 - 54m 20s

    Join Ann Curry as two women search for friends and colleagues who forged a path for equal rights. One of the first female commercial pilots wants to thank her mentor, and an advocate hopes to find the woman who inspired her to join a movement.

  • Escape from Cuba: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Escape from Cuba

    S2 E5 - 55m

    Join Ann Curry as two men search for the people who helped them settle in the U.S. when they fled Castro’s Cuba. One hopes to find the family who took him in as a boy while another looks for the shrimp boat skipper who brought him to safety.

  • Korean War Brothers in Arms: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Korean War Brothers in Arms

    S2 E4 - 55m

    Join Ann Curry as Korean War veterans search for their brothers in arms. One wants to show his gratitude to two lieutenants who inspired him to be brave in battle, and the other hopes to thank a friend who boosted his spirits aboard a hospital ship.

  • Great Alaskan Earthquake: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Great Alaskan Earthquake

    S2 E3 - 54m 31s

    Join Ann Curry as two Alaskans try to track down childhood friends who also survived the state’s massive 1964 earthquake. A woman wants to thank a friend and her mom for shielding her from harm, and a man searches for a former Little League teammate.

  • Surviving the Holocaust: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Surviving the Holocaust

    S2 E2 - 54m 59s

    Join Ann Curry as Holocaust survivors search for those who gave them hope in the darkest days. One wants to find the friend he left behind when he didn’t move to Israel; the other hopes an old photo will reunite him with the girl who was his first friend.

  • Saved in Vietnam: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Saved in Vietnam

    S2 E1 - 54m 1s

    Join Ann Curry as two Vietnam veterans search for the heroes who saved them. An Army officer searches for the helicopter pilot who rescued him, while another soldier wants to reconnect with the surgeon who saved his leg from amputation.

Extras + Features

  • Searching the National Archives: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Searching the National Archives

    S2 E4 - 2m 51s

    Jim Owen begins his search for the two lieutenants that inspired him during the Korean War at the National Archives at College Park, Maryland. There Jim finds a vital clue among military records.

  • The Heroic Lieutenants: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The Heroic Lieutenants

    S2 E4 - 4m

    Defending the 38th Parallel, gunner Jim Owen describes being marooned under heavy artillery attack from Chinese troops in 1951. There he witnessed an act of heroism that has stayed with him for nearly 70 years.

  • Episode 3 Preview | Great Alaskan Earthquake: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Episode 3 Preview | Great Alaskan Earthquake

    S2 E3 - 30s

    Join Ann Curry as two Alaskans try to track down childhood friends who also survived the state’s massive 1964 earthquake. A woman wants to thank a friend and her mom for shielding her from harm, and a man searches for a former Little League teammate.

  • Searching for Gretchen: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Searching for Gretchen

    S2 E3 - 4m 44s

    Michele is at the Bellingham County Library where she is shown yearbooks and her long lost friend Gretchen’s high school photos.  Librarian Suzanne Carlson-Prandini has found Gretchen’s marriage certificate and uses this information to search a database to find Gretchen’s current address and phone number in Seattle.

  • The Day of the Earthquake: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The Day of the Earthquake

    S2 E3 - 2m 44s

    Danny Kendall describes how on the day of the earthquake his buddy Bucky was nowhere to be seen, so he hung out with older boys Dennis and Stanley. Together they went to Valdez port to see the supply ship SS Chena that had docked that day.

  • Surviving the Earthquake: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Surviving the Earthquake

    S2 E3 - 2m 41s

    Michele Wiley was watching TV at her friend Gretchen Young’s house in Turnagain, Anchorage, when the earthquake struck. She describes the intensity of the quake that seemed to go on forever, "like ten freight trains going through the house at the same time."

  • Journey to the US on the USS Henry Gibbons: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Journey to the US on the USS Henry Gibbons

    S2 E2 - 1m 51s

    Ben Alalouf describes arriving with his family in Naples in 1944 having been on the run for three years from the Nazis. There he was lucky enough to get a place on the USS Henry Gibbons, an American troop carrier that had been sent to rescue nearly a thousand refugees.

  • Benjamin and Ben Search for Long Lost Friends: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Benjamin and Ben Search for Long Lost Friends

    S2 E2 - 44s

    Ninety-year-old Holocaust survivor Benjamin Lesser describes losing his family in the horrors of the concentration camps during WWII. He’s looking for the fellow survivor who became like a brother to him. Ben Alalouf describes arriving in the USA in 1944 on the USS Henry Gibbons, a troop carrier sent to help Jews fleeing the Nazis.

  • Ben Arrives in the US and befriends Seka: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Ben Arrives in the US and befriends Seka

    S2 E2 - 3m 34s

    Jewish Refugee Ben Alalouf tells of his arrival at an old military camp in Oswego, New York in 1944. He and his family were so relieved to at last be safe, having run for their lives across Europe with the Nazi forces on their heels. The camp was later called “Safe Haven” and for nearly a year Ben developed a friendship with a little girl called “Seka.”

  • Benjamin Describes Arriving at Auschwitz: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Benjamin Describes Arriving at Auschwitz

    S2 E2 - 2m 22s

    Holocaust survivor Benjamin Lesser describes arriving on a cattle car at Auschwitz concentration camp. He recounts seeing the ashes on the ground and not knowing what they were. A Nazi officer tells Benjamin that it is the ashes of Jewish bodies that have been burned. Benjamin not only loses his younger brother and sister to this fate, but is also threatened that a similar horror awaits him.

  • When Benjamin First Met Moshe: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    When Benjamin First Met Moshe

    S2 E2 - 4m 19s

    When liberation finally came Benjamin was so exhausted and malnourished that he simply collapsed. He describes waking up two months later in St. Ottilien, a monastery in Germany that had been made into a make-shift hospital. There he met another young holocaust survivor, Moshe Opatovski who, like him, had lost everything in the Holocaust.

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