Sugihara Survivors

1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK

Fleeing from Nazi occupied Lithuania in 1940, thousands of Jewish refugees escaped by train across Russia and then by boat to Japan thanks to visas from the Japanese diplomat, Chiune Sugihara. Many years later — as told in the film Sugihara Survivors — a Japanese writer, Akira Kitade, inherits a photo album with pictures of some of these refugees. He sets out on a mission to discover what became of these Sugihara visa recipients.

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THE SCHEDULE

⇒ March 21-24, watch the film Sugihara Survivors: Jewish and Japanese, Past and Future on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. 

⇒ Sunday, March 23 at 4:00 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

Sylvia W. Smoller, who appears in the  film Sugihara Survivors, is Distinguished University Professor Emerita in the Department of Epidemiology & Population Health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where she first joined the faculty in 1969. She also serves as Dorothy and William Manealoff Foundation and Molly Rosen Chair in Social Medicine Emerita at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, as a principal investigator of their Women’s Health Initiative, and as co-principal investigator for their site in the Hispanic Community Health Study. She is a fellow of the American College of Epidemiology, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the American Heart Association.

Richard Hurowitz is a writer, investor, and the publisher of The Octavian Report, the quarterly magazine of ideas. His article on Aristides de Sousa Mendes appeared in The New York Times, and his book In the Garden of the Righteous has just been released in paperback by HarperCollins. He serves on the governing board of the Yale University Art Gallery and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was a co-founder of the Renew Democracy Initiative. He received his BA in history from Yale University, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He earned a JD from Columbia University School of Law, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and the editor-in-chief of the Columbia/VLA Journal of Law & the Arts.  He is a member of the New York State Bar Association.

Madoka Sugihara is the granddaughter of Chiune Sugihara. She is the Chairwoman of the non-profit organization Chiune Sugihara Visas for Life. This Tokyo-based group aims to perpetuate the legacy of Sugihara’s humanitarian acts and support related activities at home and abroad promoting human rights and peace. It operated Tokyo’s only Holocaust-related museum from 2019-21. Madoka is actively involved in panel exhibitions and lectures across Japan and elsewhere to promote greater awareness of the deeds of her illustrious grandfather.

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Tickets are by donation of any amount ($18 suggested, tax-deductible)