A Voice Among the Silent - The Legacy of James G. McDonald

A documentary. An alarming meeting with Hitler in 1933 impels American diplomat James G. McDonald, a Catholic from Indiana, to use his position with the League of Nations to warn world leaders including Franklin D. Roosevelt and Pope Pius XII of the impending Holocaust. Although his tireless efforts to protect the Jews of Europe were little heeded at the time, they were recorded for posterity in his diaries, discovered only in 2003. This film details with McDonalds life’s work of this unrecognized champion of human rights, who became the first U.S. ambassador to Israel.