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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261004
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261005
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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 threatened Czechoslovakia to the United Kingdom on the eve of the Second World War.  \nHis 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/nicholas-winton-the-courage-to-care/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261018
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261019
DTSTAMP:20260916T225901
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SUMMARY:The Auschwitz Volunteer — The Heroic Story of Witold Pilecki
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nCaptain Witold Pilecki voluntarily entered the Auschwitz concentration camp\, built a secret resistance and sent desperate reports to London and Washington. 947 Days in Auschwitz is a documentary created by Warsaw-based filmmaker Patrick Ney together with the Home Army Museum in Kraków\, Poland — home to Pilecki’s eyewitness Auschwitz report. Pilecki’s accounts were smuggled across occupied Europe\, reached Churchill and Roosevelt\, and were dismissed. This film asks the question history has never fully answered: what if they had listened? \n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ October 16-19\, watch the film 947 Days in Auschwitz on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, October 18 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\n \nJack Fairweather (left) is the bestselling author of The Volunteer\, his acclaimed account of Witold Pilecki\, the Polish underground officer who volunteered to enter Auschwitz and report on Nazi crimes. The book won the Costa Book Award for Biography and has been translated into 25 languages. A former Daily Telegraph Baghdad Bureau Chief and Washington Post journalist\, Fairweather is currently Director of the Pilecki Institute USA. His extensive research into Pilecki’s life and mission helped bring this extraordinary story to a worldwide audience. \n \nDr. Jud Newborn (right) was the Founding Historian of New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage and is co-author of the acclaimed Sophie Scholl and the White Rose. He was awarded his PhD with Distinction by the University of Chicago following three years of adventurous fieldwork\, including hunting down former SS officers and working undercover during communist martial law in Poland. He was honored with the Anne Frank Center’s “Spirit of Anne Frank Award” and is the two-time Emmy Award-winning Producer of Special Programs for Long Island’s Cinema Arts Centre. \nxxxxx \nRegistration will close on Thursday\, October 15 at 10 PM ET. Instructions and links will be sent out on Friday\, October 16 and again on the morning of the program.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/the-auschwitz-volunteer-the-heroic-story-of-witold-pilecki/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261102
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SUMMARY:Proud Jewish Boy — The Story of Herschel Grynszpan
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nOn November 7\, 1938\, 17-year-old Herschel Grynszpan shot Nazi diplomat Ernst vom Rath in Paris\, providing the pretext for Kristallnacht. In Proud Jewish Boy\, acclaimed Israeli director Isri Halpern traces Herschel’s journey from poverty in Germany to his arrest in France and the Nazi show trial that never was. Combining rare interviews\, archival footage\, and illustrations by the artists of Waltz with Bashir\, the film investigates the complex motives behind this famous murder.  \n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ October 30 – November 2\, watch the film Proud Jewish Boy on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, November 1 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\n \nJonathan Kirsch (left) is the author of The Short\, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan: A Boy Avenger\, a Nazi Diplomat\, and a Murder in Paris. He is a publishing and intellectual property attorney based in Los Angeles\, an expert witness on publishing industry matters\, and an Adjunct Professor on the Faculty of New York University’s Professional Publishing Institute. He is also a book review columnist for The Los Angeles Times and the author of numerous other books in the fields of law and history. \n \nDr. Jud Newborn (right) was the Founding Historian of New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage and is co-author of the acclaimed Sophie Scholl and the White Rose. He was awarded his PhD with Distinction by the University of Chicago following three years of adventurous fieldwork\, including hunting down former SS officers and working undercover during communist martial law in Poland. He was honored with the Anne Frank Center’s “Spirit of Anne Frank Award” and is the two-time Emmy Award-winning Producer of Special Programs for Long Island’s Cinema Arts Centre. \nIsri Halpern (left) established himself as one of the country’s leading documentary filmmakers. He has produced\, directed\, and edited nine feature-length documentaries that explore untold stories and figures from the margins of Israeli society and Jewish history. His latest film\, Proud Jewish Boy\, tells the story of Herschel Grynszpan and is the result of more than ten years of research and production. The film won Best Documentary at the Haifa International Film Festival\, the Israeli Film Awards\, and the Atlanta International Film Festival. \n  \n  \nRegistration for this program will open at a later date.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/proud-jewish-boy-the-story-of-herschel-grynszpan/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261122
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261123
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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:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 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 22 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.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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261206
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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