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SUMMARY:Behind Enemy Lines — The Marthe Cohn Story
DESCRIPTION:4 PM LOS ANGELES • 7 PM NEW YORK\nChichinette: The Accidental Spy is an inspiring documentary about Marthe Hofnung Cohn\, a feisty French Jewish woman who joined the French Army during WWII after Hitler’s rise to power. After remaining silent for nearly 60 years\, Marthe began sharing her extraordinary story of resistance — how she used her language skills and blonde hair to pose as a German nurse\, slipping behind enemy lines to gather critical intelligence that helped the Allies to win the war. \n \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ December 5-December 8\, watch the film Chichinette: The Accidental Spy on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, December 7 at 7:00 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  \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nNicola Hens studied at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin\, the Bauhaus-University Weimar\, Germany\, and the Academy of Fine Arts in Toulouse\, France. Since 2015 she has been a lecturer in media and filmmaking in the International Masters programme for Art & Design at Bauhaus-University. As director of photography\, her films include Death & the Maiden (prizes at DocAviv Israel and AmDocs Palm Springs)\, Elisa (Best Cinematography at Cambridge Film Festival and other prizes at other festivals) and In the Shade of the Apple Tree. Chichinette: The Accidental Spy is her debut feature-length documentary as director\, and has been shown at international film festivals. \n \nStephan Cohn\, right\, is the eldest of Marthe and Major Cohn’s two sons; he is named after Marthe’s sister Stephanie who was killed in Auschwitz. He attended Pomona College and UCLA Medical School. He then moved to Chicago\, where he is an associate professor of Clinical Anesthesiology at the University of Illinois and is the medical director of their outpatient surgery services. He is fluent in French and has frequently visited his mother’s family in France. When Steven Spielberg started his Shoah Foundation\, Stephan helped convince his mother to finally share her amazing story. \n\nMichael Potter\, left\, is a social impact innovator and a multi-award-winning documentary filmmaker who was a friend of Marthe Cohn for many years. He is the producer of Chichinette: The Accidental Spy. Other film projects include Tracks: Stumbling Stones Amsterdam and Space for Art\, Orphans of Apollo\, The University and Poet to the Stars. He is the founder of the Ilan Ramon Scholarship project. He is a co-founder of the nonprofit organization Geeks Without Frontiers and its initiative the N50 project. He serves on the Global Leadership Board of the Blanton Art Museum in Austin\, Texas.\n\nxxxxx\nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/behind-enemy-lines/
CATEGORIES:Award Ceremony,Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Here Lived...
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK \n\n\n\nIn our year-end program\, we honor the German artist Gunter Demnig\, creator of the Stolpersteine project. The film Here Lived opens as Demnig lays his 100\,000th stone in Nuremberg. It retraces his work\, journey and impact\, through the stories of families of Holocaust victims and survivors. As their stories merge\, we come to understand how the art project Demnig calls “social sculpture” has created a new way to help heal the Nazi horrors. This is one of the most unusual story-telling projects in history.\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nxxxxx\n\nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \n\nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ December 6-9\, watch the film Here Lived on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, December 8 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\n\n\n\nJane Wells is an Emmy-award nominated filmmaker\, best known for Tricked\, a documentary about sex trafficking in the USA\, and for the groundbreaking documentary feature The Devil Came on Horseback\, about the genocide in Darfur. As the founder of 3 Generations\, she has written\, produced and directed over 50 short films and videos. Her films have been selected by film festivals including Sundance\, AFI/Silverdocs\, Hotdocs\, Tribeca\, Montclair\, Nashville\, Thessaloniki\, Aspen Shorts Fest\, Red Nation and The American Indian Film Festival. Her award-winning shorts A System of Justice\, Native Silence\, Preserving the Holocaust\, and most recently A Kaddish For Selim have played widely on the festival circuit.\nAlexander Stukenberg\, featured in the film Here Lived\, manages the Stolpersteine project’s production and coordination in Belgium\, the Netherlands and Luxembourg and delivers public presentations to raise awareness about Stolpersteine. Born in Bad Harzburg\, Germany\, he has a broad professional background in logistics\, project management and global partnerships. After serving in the German Navy he joined the company TNT Express Worldwide\, where he managed special services and logistics\, including sponsorship coordination for the European and German Film Awards. Today he is proud to be working on the Stolpersteine project full-time.  \nJane Friedman is a long-time journalist with more than eighteen years’ experience as a foreign correspondent. She reported from Paris (for Newsweek)\, in Jerusalem (for The New York Times) and in Beirut and Cairo (for CNN and The Washington Post). She grew up on Long Island\, near New York City\, and had no idea she had any relation to the Holocaust because her parents\, refugees from Belgium\, repressed everything. The discovery\, in recent years\, has changed her life and her sense of who she is. She continues to write – but mostly now about her encounter with her family’s World War II reality. She recently traveled to Germany for the embedding of four stumbling stones to memorialize relatives who were either persecuted or murdered by the Third Reich\, an experience she chronicled in Moment magazine. \n\n\n\n Ulrika Grünwald Citron\, a daughter of a Holocaust survivor from Amsterdam\, was born in Sweden and moved to the US to pursue college. Her story is told in the film\, Here Lived. Upon graduating from Temple University\, she worked at WNET/Great Performances in New York\, followed by Swedish Broadcasting\, New York. Ulrika has chaired and co-chaired committees at the USC Shoah Foundation and the United Jewish Appeal of New York. She has pursued involvements in organizations aiming to educate about the Holocaust and genocide. She serves on the Board of Governors of the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam and supports the Stolpersteine Project in Amsterdam.\n\n\n\nxxxxx\n\nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/here-lived/
CATEGORIES:Award Ceremony,Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:"Mrs. Judy" - The Canadian Woman Who Secretly Rescued the Jews of Syria
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nOn this Chanukah program we honor Judy Feld Carr\, a woman of exceptional courage and valor who chose to make a difference. Over a 28-year period\, she secretly brought to freedom 3228 Jews prohibited from emigrating from Syria. Working with smugglers and bribing government officials\, she removed most of that community from veritable bondage. In addition\, she clandestinely smuggled out of that country priceless ancient articles of Jewish worship. Until Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the Israeli Intelligence Organizations publicly acclaimed her activities\, the world\, including the Jewish world\, had no inkling of this Canadian Jewish woman’s covert life. She is the subject of historian Dr. Harold Troper’s The Rescuer\, now in its second edition. The rescue was the best-kept secret in the Jewish world. \nxxxxx \n“Her remarkable story stands as a testament to what one person can achieve when compassion is harnessed to determination.” – Harold Troper \nxxxxx \nLEARN HER INCREDIBLE STORY\nxxxxx\n \n  \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ December 3-6\, watch a documentary film about Judy Feld Carr on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, December 5 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program featuring a conversation between Judy Feld Carr and Shulamit Reinharz hosted by Broadway star Samantha Massell and with live musical interludes. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE MASTER OF CEREMONIES\nxxxxx \nSamantha Massell is a New York based actress and singer who has appeared on Broadway\, on television\, in movies\, in the cabaret scene\, and in commercials. She was last seen on Broadway as Hodel in the acclaimed revival of Fiddler on the Roof. She has originated lead roles in many world premiere musicals including Steven Schwartz and Charles’ Strouse’s Rags at The Goodspeed Opera (Connecticut Critics Circle Award for Best Actress)\, The Flamingo Kid at Hartford Stage\, and Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame at La Jolla Playhouse and Paper Mill Playhouse. On the small screen\, Samantha has held recurring roles on Mr. Mercedes and Chicago Fire and guest starred on NCIS: New Orleans\, The Good Fight\, and Elementary. BFA\, University of Michigan\, Phi Beta Kappa. @smassellsings www.samanthamassell.com \nxxxxx \nMEET THE INTERVIEWER\nxxxxx \n \nDr. Shulamit Reinharz was born in Amsterdam and grew up in the United States with long stays in Israel. She earned her B.A. from Barnard College and her Ph.D. from Brandeis University\, both in sociology. She is the author of thirteen books\, including American Jewish Women and the Zionist Enterprise (Brandeis\, 2005); Observing the Observer (Oxford\, 2011); and One Hundred Years of Kibbutz Life (Transaction\, 2011) and is completing Surviving Holland\, 1939-1947\, a book about her father’s Holocaust experience. In 2017\, she retired from Brandeis and became Professor Emerita. She is a sought after speaker and interviewer and has participated in several Sunday programs of the Sousa Mendes Foundation. \nxxxxx \nMUSICAL GUESTS\nxxxxx \nAsher Shasho Levy (right) is a Syrian Jewish musician and scholar who seeks to spread the beauty of the Sephardic tradition. He performs and teaches internationally and is the founder of the Aram Soba Ensemble\, a group dedicated to the musical heritage of Syrian Jewry. Studying with elders and scholars in the Sephardic community of Los Angeles\, Asher has amassed a large repertoire of liturgical music\, secular song in Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic\, as well as piyyutim\, pizmonim and baqashot\, the religious poetry and song of the Jewish Middle East. \n \nIntertwining many sounds of world music\, Bruce Burger (left) is RebbeSoul. His music finds the crossroads between reggae and klezmer\, winding and weaving through rock\, pop\, jazz and funk. His Fringe of Blue album combines traditional Jewish songs with original compositions and is one of the best-selling Jewish albums of all time. Currently\, he is producing artists in the Middle East\, the US\, UK\, and South Africa. One project is with Shlomit Levi\, star Yemenite singer. Their debut album\, The Seal of Solomon\, was released in 2015 and has been broadcast on NPR and in Canada\, Israel and Yemen. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/mrs-judy/
CATEGORIES:Award Ceremony,Concert,Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171029T120000
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SUMMARY:Gala event:  "A Toast to Freedom!"
DESCRIPTION:Come join us at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in a beautiful setting next to the Statue of Liberty for a gala luncheon — “A Toast to Freedom!” — to benefit the Sousa Mendes Foundation. \nMaster of Ceremonies:\nActor Michel Gill (“House of Cards”)\, the son and grandson of Sousa Mendes visa recipients. \nHonoring:\nCongressman Jerry Nadler of New York’s 10th Congressional District\, recognized by Time magazine for his political courage; \nDr. Eva Fogelman\, psychologist and advocate for Holocaust survivors; author of the seminal book on Holocaust rescue\, Conscience & Courage; \nMaggie Favretti\, teacher at Scarsdale High School; founder and advisor of the group Students for Refugees in Westchester County. \nLive musical performance:\nHighlights from “Circular 14: The Apotheosis of Aristides” with tenor Benjamin Sloman as Aristides de Sousa Mendes\, Michel Gill narrating as his twin brother César\, soprano Marina Harris as Angelina de Sousa Mendes\, tenor Gilad Paz as Salazar\, Pedro da Silva on Portuguese guitar\, and the composer Neely Bruce at the piano. \nFlowers provided by Amy’s Greenhouse.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/gala-event-a-toast-to-freedom/
LOCATION:Museum of Jewish Heritage\, 36 Battery Place\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Award Ceremony,Concert,Luncheon
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