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SUMMARY:To Kill a Nazi — The Michel Cojot Story
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nTo Kill a Nazi follows the story of Michel Cojot\, a French banker who vowed to hunt down and kill Klaus Barbie\, the Gestapo officer responsible for his father’s arrest and deportation. In 1976\, Cojot became one of the heroes during the famous Raid on Entebbe. A unique life story and gripping film!\n \n\nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ August 21 – August 24 \, watch the film To Kill a Nazi on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, August 23 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. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nx \n \nIsraeli-American filmmaker Boaz Dvir tells stories of ordinary people who transform into trailblazers: an inner-city teacher who becomes a disruptive innovator (Discovering Gloria); a Holocaust survivor who sets out to kill his father’s Nazi executioner (To Kill A Nazi); and a flight engineer who leads a secret\, illegal operation to prevent what he views as a second Holocaust (the prize-winning A Wing and a Prayer). He serves on the Journalism faculty of Penn State University\, where he also directs the Holocaust\, Genocide & Human Rights Education Initiative. \n \nOlivier Cojot-Goldberg is the son of Michel Cojot\, the subject of the movie To Kill a Nazi\, and he is interviewed in the film. He was a living witness to his father’s heroic story and was himself one of the hostages in the Entebbe raid. Olivier graduated from the California Institute of Technology and received his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the same institution. He acted as Managing Director at Kidder Peabody and later served as Vice Chairman of the Ellington Management Group. \nxx\n \nRegistration is by donation of any amount ($18 suggested\, tax-deductible).
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/to-kill-a-nazi-the-michel-cojot-story/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260830
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260831
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SUMMARY:Rose Valland\, The Art Spy Who Saved the Treasures of France
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nRose Valland’s unique role\, that of a female spy working on behalf of the French Resistance\, has long deserved its own special treatment. Michelle Young’s new book The Art Spy places Valland at the center of the action and illuminates aspects of her personal life and details about her spying methods that have received scant attention in the past. \n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ Sunday\, August 30 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nTo order a signed and inscribed copy of The Art Spy\, click here.\nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\n \nMichelle Young\, left\, is an award-winning journalist and author. Her latest book\, The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of World War II Resistance Hero Rose Valland was named a Best Book of 2025 by the New York Public Library\, Library Journal\, and Hyperallergic. Michelle’s work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal\, The Guardian\, Airmail\, The Forward\, Town & Country\, and Narratively. She is a graduate of Harvard College in the History of Art and Architecture and holds a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture\, Planning and Preservation\, where she is a Professor of Architecture. She is the founder of the publication Untapped New York. \n \nLaurie Gwen Shapiro\, right\, is an award-winning journalist\, documentary filmmaker\, and author of The Aviator and the Showman: Amelia Earhart\, George Putnam\, and the Marriage That Made an American Icon (Viking\, 2025)\, named one of the year’s best books by NPR\, The New Yorker\, Smithsonian Magazine\, and Amazon. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, New York Magazine\, Slate\, and other publications. Shapiro is also an adjunct professor at the NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute\, where she teaches feature writing in the graduate program. In addition to her work as a writer and biographer\, she frequently moderates conversations on art\, history\, media\, and culture in New York and beyond. \nxxxxx \nRegistration will close on Thursday\, August 27 at 10 PM ET. Instructions and links will be emailed to all registrants on Friday\, August 28 and again on the day of the program.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/rose-valland-the-art-spy-who-saved-the-treasures-of-france/
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260927
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260928
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SUMMARY:Lisbon and World War II — Spies\, Gold and Diplomacy
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nPortugal managed to get through all of World War II without firing a single shot. Caught in a vise between the Axis and the Allies\, António Salazar\, the country’s strongman\, used every trick in the book to get his country through unscathed. Bruno Lorvão‘s documentary Lisbon and World War II: Spies\, Gold and Diplomacy explores how the Portuguese dictator took advantage his country’s neutrality\, and how the rescue action of Aristides de Sousa Mendes presented a threat to Salazar’s plans. \n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ September 25-28\, watch the film Lisbon and World War II: Spies\, Gold and Diplomacy on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, September 27 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. \n  \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\n \nBruno Lorvão is a documentary filmmaker and video producer based in Paris\, with family roots in Portugal. His body of work focusses on political history\, social movements and the memory of forgotten peoples. He produced  Lisbon and World War II: Spies\, Gold and Diplomacy — on Salazar’s dangerous game of neutrality during the Second World War\, when Lisbon became the world capital of espionage. Fluent in French\, Portuguese\, English and Spanish\, he brings a cross-cultural perspective to his work\, weaving archival research\, personal testimony and rigorous historical analysis into cinematic narratives. \n \nSusan E. Lindsey\, right\, is an author who was born and raised in Washington state and now lives in Coimbra\, Portugal. She is the author of a forthcoming biography of the Portuguese diplomat Aristides de Sousa Mendes\, who defied his government to issue life-saving visas to thousands of desperate refugees during World War II. She is also the author of Liberty Brought Us Here: The True Story of American Slaves Who Migrated to Liberia (2020)\, and numerous articles and essays. She studied with the eminent World War II historian Dr. Christopher R. Browning and credits him with triggering her interest in the Holocaust and rescuers. \nMariana Abrantes\, left\, who will moderate\, 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. \nxxxxx \nRegistration is by donation of any amount ($18 suggested\, tax-deductible).
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/lisbon-and-wwii-spies-gold-and-diplomacy/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Nicholas Winton — The Courage to Care
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nChildren Saved from the Nazis — The Story of Sir Nicholas Winton is a documentary film about Nicholas Winton\, the man who organized the Kindertransport evacuation of 669 children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia to the United Kingdom on the eve of the Second World War. His son Nick Winton will be joining us live from the UK. Also speaking will be the historian Dr. Mordecai Paldiel\, and the event is moderated by Melissa Hacker of the Kindertransport Association. \n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ October 2-5\, watch the film Children Saved from the Nazis — The Story of Sir Nicholas Winton on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, October 4 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. \n  \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\n \nNick Winton\, left\, is the son of the Holocaust hero Sir Nicholas Winton MBE. Nick’s own journey is one of resilience and leadership. He earned an MBA from Imperial College and built a successful career as an Interim CEO\, guiding companies through turnarounds and start-ups in London and New York. Now an international speaker\, Nick shares his insights on leadership\, resilience\, and his father’s extraordinary legacy\, engaging audiences from corporate events to schools and fundraisers. An international speaker\, his audiences have ranged from corporate workshops and events\, schools\, community colleges\, synagogues\, and fundraisers. \n \nDr. Mordecai Paldiel\, right\, 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. He will explain why Yad Vashem has still failed to recognize Nicholas Winton as Righteous Among the Nations. \n \nMelissa Hacker\, who will moderate\, is the Executive Director of the Kindertransport Association. She is a filmmaker whose documentary My Knees Were Jumping; Remembering the Kindertransports was short-listed for an Academy Award nomination and shown worldwide. A sought-after speaker\, she has consulted on exhibits at the Center for Jewish History in New York\, the Illinois Holocaust Museum and at the Vienna Jewish Museum. She is the editor of two Academy Award nominated documentary films and serves on the Governing Board of the World Federation of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Descendants. \nxxxxx \nRegistration is by donation of any amount ($18 suggested\, tax-deductible). \n \n  \nThis program is co-sponsored by the Kindertransport Association.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/nicolas-winton-the-courage-to-care/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261115
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SUMMARY:Girl in Blue — The Nazi Looting and Post-War Recovery of Renoir's Portrait of a Jewish Girl in Paris
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nIn 1941\, a specialized German looting unit in France plundered one of Renoir’s most haunting masterworks: La Petite Irène. In her deeply researched new book\, The Girl in Blue — Renoir’s Portrait of a Dynasty Erased\, author Doreen Carvajal reconstructs the intertwined wartime journeys of Irène Cahen d’Anvers — the Jewish model who survived in Nazi-occupied Paris while members of her family were deported and murdered — and of her famous portrait that was looted and passed through Hermann Göring’s hands. Their paths converge in a story of beauty and betrayal ― the painting a silent witness to what history tried to erase.\n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ Sunday\, November 15 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished speakers. A link will be provided to all who register.xxxx \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nDoreen Carvajal\, author of The Girl in Blue — Renoir’s Portrait of a Dynasty Erased\, is a journalist and author who worked for more than twenty-five years at The International Herald Tribune and The New York Times\, reporting from Europe on culture\, media\, and international affairs. Her first book\, The Forgetting River\, traced her search for her Catholic family’s hidden Sephardic Jewish roots in southern Spain. She lives outside Paris in Impressionism country in a stone farmhouse. \n \nChristopher C. Gorham\, who will be in conversation with Doreen Carvajal\, is a lawyer\, educator\, and acclaimed author of Matisse at War\, winner of the 20th Annual Marfield Prize\, the National Award for Arts Writing\, and The Confidante\, a Goodreads Choice Award finalist. His writing has appeared in The Washington Post\, Literary Hub\, History Now\, and elsewhere. He lives in Boston and is a frequent speaker at conferences\, literary events\, classrooms and book club gatherings around the country. \nxxxx \nRegistration for this program will open at a later date.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/girl-in-blue/
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261207
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SUMMARY:Claude Lanzmann — The Man Behind the Film “Shoah”
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nThe Academy-Award nominated film Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah by the British filmmaker and journalist Adam Benzine\, explores the 12-year journey undertaken by Lanzmann to make his 1985 film Shoah\, a nine-and-a-half-hour-long documentary which is today considered among the most important Holocaust works in existence. \n \nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ December 4-7\, watch the film Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, December 6 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\n \nAdam Benzine is an internationally renowned British-Canadian filmmaker and journalist\, based in Toronto. As a filmmaker\, he is known for producing and directing the Academy Award-nominated HBO documentary Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah\, which played at film festivals and aired on broadcasters across the world; and for producing and directing ground-breaking hybrid thriller The Curve. As a journalist\, he has a 20-year career writing for newspapers such as The Globe and Mail\, The Toronto Star and the National Post\, as well as publications such as The Walrus\, The Independent\, The Hollywood Reporter\, Variety and Time Out. \n \nCorinna Coulmas was born in Hamburg to a Greek father and a German mother; studied theology\, philosophy\, and sociology in Hamburg\, Paris\, Jerusalem\, and Florence. She earned her doctorate from Paris IV\, Sorbonne. She worked in theater in Hamburg and Baden-Baden\, and as a reader for Rowohlt publishers in Hamburg and Gallimard in Paris. For ten years\, she was Claude Lanzmann‘s assistant on the film Shoah. She then collaborated with Saul Friedländer (UCLA) about the impact of the Shoah on younger generations and taught kabbalah at the Center for Jewish Studies (Sorbonne). She founded the Éditions la Métamorphose in 2012. \n \nDr. Luke Berryman is the Founder of The Ninth Candle\, a nonprofit organization that works with schools across the United States to improve Holocaust education. He holds degrees from the University of Oxford\, Boston University and King’s College London. His Ph.D. thesis was on the use of classical music in Nazi propaganda. He has since written about the Holocaust and antisemitism for USA Today\, The Chicago Tribune\, The Guardian\, and other newspapers\, and for pedagogy journals including Education Week and Chalkbeat. He is the author of Resisting Nazism (Bloomsbury\, 2026). \nxxxxx \nRegistration will open at a later date.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/claude-lanzmann/
CATEGORIES:Award Ceremony,Discussion,Film Screening
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