Aristides de Sousa Mendes — The Angel of Bordeaux
June 1
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11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK
The film The Consul of Bordeaux is a semi-fictionalized feature film based on the story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes and the families he saved. Please join us for this free program on our inspiring hero!
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VIEW THE TRAILER
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THE SCHEDULE
⇒ May 30-June 2, watch the film The Consul of Bordeaux on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register.
⇒ Sunday, June 1 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register.
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MEET THE SPEAKERS
Elizabeth Eames is a retired professor of cultural anthropology at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. Her mother, along with four siblings and their parents, fled from Lille, France in 1940 and received life-saving visas from Aristides de Sousa Mendes. Then, from Lisbon, they sailed to the Caribbean before eventually landing in New York. She has been volunteering with African refugees, immigrants, and asylum seekers in Maine, thereby manifesting both her African Studies background and her own mother’s history.
Jan de Moncada is a great-grandson of Aristides de Sousa Mendes. He grew up in Portugal, and is currently an English teacher working in France. During his childhood and adolescence he watched his father António working hard for the recognition of the action of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, which meant that there was a lot of discussion in his household about human rights and the suffering of the Jewish people. That upbringing helped him develop a moral and ethical compass that he hopes to transmit to his children and their generation.
Gerald Mendes is the grandson of Aristides and Angelina de Sousa Mendes. Gerald was born in Montreal and lives in France. He worked all his professional life as an Industrial Engineer, mostly in the pharmaceutical industry. Now retired, he continues to do professional training in the areas of Supply Chain and Logistics. He first learned of his grandfather’s action in 1967, after his father returned home from the ceremony in New York where the Yad Vashem medal was conferred. Gerald is a former Board member of the Sousa Mendes Foundation and has been promoting his grandfather’s legacy since the 1980s. He is a triathlete as well as a new grandfather to baby Jacob, born in 2020.
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