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Film Screening, Roundtable and Ceremony: “Hommage à Aristides de Sousa Mendes”
Organized by the Association of Portuguese Speakers in Switzerland. Event in French and Portuguese. Special guest Gerald Mendes.
Film screening and ceremony: Remembering Aristides de Sousa Mendes
Camp Gibraltar, on the island of Jamaica, was a safe haven during World War II for Jews escaping Nazi-occupied Europe. Some of the refugees who found respite there were Sousa Mendes visa recipients. Accordingly, Aristides de Sousa Mendes will be honored during a reunion of the families who once called Camp Gibraltar home.
Houston Honors Aristides de Sousa Mendes
Refugees in Lisbon, 1940
The American Jewish Committee and the Holocaust Museum Houston are jointly sponsoring a commemoration of Aristides de Sousa Mendes in conjunction with International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Louis-Philippe Mendes, grandson of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, will speak. All events will be held at the Holocaust Museum Houston.
Schedule:
Thursday, January 26, 2017, 6:30 p.m.
Screening of Disobedience: The Sousa Mendes Story at the Holocaust Museum Houston. Free and open to the public.
Friday, January 27, 2017, 10 a.m.
Ceremony “Remembering Aristides de Sousa Mendes” with Houston Diplomatic Consular Corps and remarks by Louis-Philippe Mendes. Free and open to the public, but seating is limited.
January 26-February 26, 2017
In conjunction with the above events, the Sousa Mendes Foundation presents an exhibition of original artifacts, “Sousa Mendes and his Visas to Freedom.” On view will be passports with the original Sousa Mendes visas along with personal items of refugees rescued by Aristides de Sousa Mendes.
For more information, call (713) 942-8000.
Event WebsitePresidential medal awarded to Aristides de Sousa Mendes in Portugal
President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa of Portugal will posthumously award the Grand Cross of the Order of Liberty to Aristides de Sousa Mendes. The event will take place at the Sousa Mendes family home, Casa do Passal, in Cabanas de Viriato, Portugal. The date of April 3, 2017 is the anniversary of Sousa Mendes’s death in 1954.
Event WebsiteCeremony and testimonial: Remembering Aristides de Sousa Mendes
Monique Rubens Krohn will share the moving true story of how her family escaped Nazi-occupied Europe with the help of Aristides de Sousa Mendes.
Event WebsiteYom Hashoah in New Bedford, MA
In recognition of the special relationship between the city of New Bedford, MA and the story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, the Jewish Federation of New Bedford will present a gift to the Sousa Mendes Foundation on the occasion of the annual Yom Hashoah service of the city of New Bedford at Buttonwood Park. Representing the Foundation will be Robert Jacobvitz, Chair of the Advisory Council, who played a key role in the early recognitions of Sousa Mendes in New Bedford and elsewhere in the 1980s. Representing the Jewish Federation will be Amir Cohen, Executive Director.
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