Sugihara Survivors

1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK

This program examines the actions of the Holocaust rescuer Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat stationed in Kaunas, Lithuania.

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VIEW THE TRAILER

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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

Dr. Mordecai Paldiel headed the Righteous Among the Nations Department at Yad Vashem from 1982-2007. Some of his books on rescue during the Holocaust include The Path of the Righteous, Sheltering the Jews, Saving the Jews, Diplomat Heroes of the Holocaust, and Saving One’s Own. He taught at Yeshiva University 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 in Jerusalem. In 1984 he oversaw the recognition of Chiune Sugihara at Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations.

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.

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Registration for this program will open at a later date.