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Sally Noach — The Angel of Lyon
May 7, 2023
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11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK
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This program tells the story of the Jewish hero Salomon “Sally” Noach, who is remembered as the “angel” of the city of Lyon, France. He acted at great personal risk to rescue Jews who had been already captured by the Gestapo. See a new film about him that will touch your heart, and then meet his son along with one of the people that he saved.
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SEE THE TRAILER
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THE SCHEDULE
⇒ May 5-8, watch the film The Forgotten Soldier on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register.
⇒ Sunday, May 7 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
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Jacques Noach (right) is the eldest son of Sally Noach and Annie Visser. Born in London in 1946, he worked as an accountant with Mazars, and retired in 2009. Following his father’s death in 1980, he donated his father’s archives to the NIOD – The Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam. In 2022 he published a book, Het ongeloof (“Disbelief”), about his father’s story. He carried out extensive research into the “Sally Noach File” of the Dutch wartime government and discovered some shocking revelations about the “support” that government provided to Dutch refugees. Jacques Noach has been awarded the French title of “Chevalier dans l’Ordre National de Mérite.”
Herman Veder (left) was rescued by Sally Noach, along with his family. He then went on to pursue a career as a race car driver, becoming the “fastest Jew in the world.” He was six when he and his family were arrested in August 1942 and jailed at the Palais de Justice in Lyon. Noach secured their release with false identity papers — discovered by Jacques Noach in an Amsterdam archive — which had altered the family’s religion from Jewish to Calvinist. The papers allowed the family to travel from France to safety in the Dutch colony of Suriname on the northeastern Atlantic coast of South America. He is featured in the film The Forgotten Soldier.
Dr. Mordecai Paldiel (right) headed the Righteous Among the Nations Department at Yad Vashem from 1982-2007. His books include The Path of the Righteous, Sheltering the Jews, Saving the Jews, Diplomat Heroes of the Holocaust, Saving One’s Own: Jewish Rescuers During the Holocaust and The Righteous Among the Nations. He teaches at Stern College and Touro College and serves on the Board of the Sousa Mendes Foundation. Thanks to his efforts, there is now a square named for Aristides de Sousa Mendes as well as a street named for Raoul Wallenberg, both in Jerusalem. He is a member of the B’nai Brith committee in Israel honoring Jewish rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust.
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