Lisbon — Harbor of Hope

11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK

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View Pavel Schnabel‘s award-winning film, Lisbon — Harbor of Hope, then join us for the discussion. The film follows several Jewish families who escaped Nazi Germany to Lisbon from 1933-38, before the outbreak of war.  For those families it was still permissible to settle in Portugal, and the film interviews several of these survivors. The Sousa Mendes story is also told, through the diplomat’s son, Pedro Nuno de Sousa Mendes, who was a witness and participant in his father’s rescue action.

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THE SCHEDULE

⇒ October 27-30, watch the film Lisbon — Harbor of Hope on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register.

⇒ Sunday, October 29 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of guests.  A link will be provided to all who register.

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MEET THE SPEAKERS

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Documentary filmmaker Pavel Schnabel was born in 1946 in Olomouc, Czechoslovakia and studied at the Film and Television Academy in Prague. He emigrated in 1968 and settled in Germany. Pavel Schnabel has worked for many years as a freelance director and cameraman in Germany and has been awarded several international and German prizes and nominations for his films. In addition to Lisbon — Harbor of Hope, his award-winning films include Now… After All These Years, The Violin, and many others.

Vivian Shapiro, right, from Toronto, was born in Portugal to German Jewish parents. Her family’s story of escape is depicted in the film Lisbon — Harbor of Hope. She is a co-author of Entangled No More and the author of Go Vibrant!… notes and anecdotes on loving and living the joie de VIVre. As a teacher, vice principal and principal, and later Education Director of a charity for youth, she spearheaded programs and conferences to empower disenfranchised young people. She is a recipient of the 2012 Amazing Aces in Action Award and the 2018 Celebrating Outstanding Women Award for Philanthropy, for her work with the Herbert H. Carnegie Future Aces Foundation and the Toronto community.

Mariana Abrantes, left, is a Board member and the Portugal representative of the Sousa Mendes Foundation. Coming from a village in central Portugal, she studied Economics at UC-Berkeley and earned an MA from Princeton University. After training and working in Chase Manhattan Bank, she returned to Portugal, where she worked at the European Investment Bank. She also served in the Portuguese government’s Ministries of Transport and Health, and on the Boards of international investment funds and the Fulbright Commission Portugal.  She is a dual Portuguese-US citizen.

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Registration for this program is closed.