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SUMMARY:In the Garden of the Righteous
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nRichard Hurowitz‘s new book In the Garden of the Righteous from HarperCollins chronicles the heroes and heroines who not only rescued Jews from the Holocaust but also\, as Golda Meir once said\, “saved hope and faith in the human spirit.” \n \nxxxxx \n \nAUTOGRAPHED AND INSCRIBED BOOKS AVAILABLE! \n$32 plus shipping/handling to US addresses ($4). \nOrder your copy today for yourself or a loved one! \nWe will contact you for your preferred inscription after you place your order. \n\n\nxxxxx \nxxxxx \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nxxxxx \nRichard 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 published 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. \nLeslie Camhi’s first-person essays on art\, photography\, design\, books\, Jewish culture\, and women’s lives\, including her own life and travels\, appear regularly in The New York Times\, Vogue\, Tablet and many other publications. A frequent contributor to art museum catalogs\, she also holds a doctorate in Comparative Literature from Yale University\, and her scholarly work includes essays on kleptomania and 19th-century French medical photography. Her first translation\, from the French\, of Violaine Huisman’s debut novel\, The Book of Mother (Scribner) was a New York Times Notable Book of 2021\, long-listed for the International Booker Prize\, and a finalist for the French-American Foundation’s Translation Prize. She is currently at work on a memoir. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed. We are still offering signed/inscribed books. Order one for yourself or a loved one!
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/in-the-garden-of-the-righteous/
CATEGORIES:Book Talk
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SUMMARY:Safe Haven in the Philippines
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nIn the 1930s\, when nations of the world were closing their doors to refugee Jews fleeing the growing horror of Hitler’s Germany\, one small island nation in the Pacific\, the Philippines\, chose to do what others would not — save those lives. This rescue\, orchestrated and empowered through President Manuel Quezon\, gave the refugees a new welcoming homeland as the Filipino people opened their hearts and accepted them within the fabric of Philippine society. Today a monument to this rescue action stands in Rishon Le Zion\, Israel. \n \n  \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ August 19-22\, watch Noel Izon‘s film An Open Door: Holocaust Haven in the Philippines on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, August 21 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of guests.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \nHis Excellency Jose Manuel “Babe” del Gallego Romualdez currently serves as the Philippine Ambassador to the United States and to some Caribbean Territories. He was appointed as Ambassador in July 2017 and was reappointed in July 2022. He is a recipient of the prestigious Order of Sikatuna in recognition of his meritorious contributions to the strengthening of the longstanding comprehensive ties between the Philippines and the US\, for his steadfast efforts to further deepen the Philippines-US alliance\, for promoting trade and investment\, and for his laudable initiative in the procurement of 20 million doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. Prior to his appointment\, he has extensive experience as a media practitioner and business executive. \n \nNoel Izon (left) is an independent filmmaker based in Maryland and born in Manila. His production credits encompass more than 250 films and videos. He has won many national awards for his work\, which include some 100 nationally televised programs produced mainly for PBS and for National Geographic Television. Among his numerous national and international clients are the White House and the Vatican. He spent ten years at PBS affiliate WNVT-Virginia and at the Educational Film Center as a writer/producer before forming his own production company in 1980. An Open Door: Holocaust Haven in the Philippines is the third in his trilogy of forgotten WWII stories. \n \nRalph Preiss (right) is a computer engineer who found a safe haven in the Philippines during World War II. He retired in 1991 from IBM\, where he worked on designing large computers for 37 years. Born in Germany\, he was in 4th grade in Manila when the Japanese overran that country in January 1942. He did not finish another grade until after the war\, going directly into high school which he completed in 3 years. He entered the University of the Philippines studying Engineering for one year before he was brought to the United States by his father’s cousin and enrolled at MIT. He and his late wife Marcia have four daughters\, ten grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. \n \nBonnie M. Harris\, Associate Producer and Holocaust historian for the documentary An Open Door: Holocaust Haven in the Philippines\, completed her Ph.D. in History at UC Santa Barbara\, where her doctoral dissertation was the first academic study of the Philippine rescue of European refugee Jews from the Holocaust. Her book\, Philippine Sanctuary: A Holocaust Odyssey\, traces the story of Joseph Cysner\, arrested and deported by the Nazis\, detained in a border camp at Zbaszyn\, Poland\, released to immigrate to Manila\, and then interned by the Japanese at Santo Tomas University Internment Camp during their occupation of the Philippines in WWII. Dr. Harris teaches history at both San Diego State University and Southwestern Community College. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/safe-haven-in-the-philippines/
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Cartoonists Who Spoke Out
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nAt a time when too many people looked away\, a handful of American political cartoonists used their pens to raise the alarm about the raging Holocaust. These included some of America’s most famous cartoonists\, such as the beloved Dr. Seuss\, the Washington Post‘s Pulitzer Prize winning Herbert Block (“Herblock”) and many others. Holocaust historian Rafael Medoff\, author of We Spoke Out: Comic Books and the Holocaust\, will discuss this fascinating subject together with George Gustines\, who covers comics and graphic novels for The New York Times. \n \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nxxxx \nDr. Rafael Medoff (right) is founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies and the author of more than 20 books about the Holocaust and Jewish history\, including We Spoke Out: Comic Books and the Holocaust (with Neal Adams and Craig Yoe; preface by Stan Lee) and Cartoonists Against the Holocaust (with Craig Yoe). He co-created the animated series They Spoke Out: American Voices Against the Holocaust for Disney Educational Productions. Dr. Medoff has taught Jewish history at Ohio State University\, Purchase College of the State University of New York\, and elsewhere\, and is a Fellow of the Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research at Bar-Ilan University. \nGeorge Gene Gustines (left) has worked at The New York Times since 1990 when he started as a news assistant. He began writing about comic books in 2002 and has helped chronicle how much comics have seeped into pop culture in television\, film\, theater and more. He has reported on diversity in comics (the characters and their creators) and the decades-long appeal of characters like Batman and Spider-Man. His work has also spotlighted comics about the Holocaust including\, “Blowing the Whistle on Genocide” (about Josiah E. DuBois Jr.)\, “The Book that Hitler Didn’t Want You to Read” (about Alan Cranston) and “The Last Outrage” (about Dina Gottliebova Babbitt). \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/cartoonists-against-hitler/
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion,Lecture
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SUMMARY:Daughters of the Inquisition -- Retracing Long-Lost Jewish Roots
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nThis program features the breathtaking stories and genealogical sleuthwork of Doreen Carvajal and Genie Milgrom\, who succeeded in reaching back centuries to find their Jewish ancestors in pre-Inquisition Spain and Portugal. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nxxxxx \nGenie Milgrom (left) was born in Havana\, Cuba\, into a Roman Catholic family of Spanish ancestry. In an unparalleled work of genealogy\, she was able to fully document her unbroken maternal lineage 22 generations going back as far as 1405 to her Jewish ancestors in pre-Inquisition Spain and Portugal. She is the past president of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami and past president of the Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies. She is the author of My 15 Grandmothers\, as well as How I found My 15 Grandmothers: A Step by Step Guide\, and Pyre to Fire. She brings awareness to the topic of people tracing their Jewish roots to the time of the Inquisition who are returning to Judaism. Genie is director of the Converso Genealogy Project\, digitizing Inquisition files around the world. \n \nMariana Abrantes (right)\, who will moderate the panel\, is the Board Treasurer 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. \nDoreen Carvajal (left) is a former New York Times culture reporter and the author of The Forgetting River: A Modern Tale of Survival\, Identity\, and the Inquisition\, which explored her quest to recover her Catholic family’s secret Jewish identity that led from Costa Rica to Segovia\, Spain to the tombs of 15th century ancestors investigated by the Inquisition for heresy. Based in Paris\, she is co-founder of the Orphan Art Project\, which aids descendants seeking restitution of looted art and recovery of family history. She appears in the film Stealing Italy\, the final episode of the documentary series Hunting Nazi Treasure. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/daughters-of-the-inquisition/
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220605
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SUMMARY:Dr. Ruth Westheimer 94th Birthday Celebration
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \n\n\n\n\n\n\nMeet Dr. Ruth Westheimer and join her birthday celebration! Born as Karola Ruth Siegel on June 4\, 1928\, in Frankfurt\, Germany\, she grew up as the only child in a privileged Orthodox Jewish family. However\, her carefree childhood was violently shattered shortly after Kristallnacht when the SS came to take away her father. In 1939\, she was sent on a Kindertransport to Switzerland\, where she lived in an orphanage until 1945. She then emigrated to pre-state Israel\, became known as Ruth Siegel (dropping the German-sounding Karola) and became a sniper and scout for the Haganah.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nOn June 4\, 1948\, her 20th birthday\, she was wounded when a bomb exploded outside the kibbutz where she lived. Later she studied psychology at the Sorbonne in Paris. Upon receiving a restitution check for 5\,000 marks (approximately $1\,500) from the West German government\, she left the Sorbonne and sailed with her French boyfriend to New York\, where a place to live and a scholarship to the New School for Social Research awaited her. She later earned a Ph.D. from Columbia University and hosted a radio program with millions of listeners. \nDr. Ruth Westheimer has received many awards for her work\, including an honorary doctorate degree from Trinity College and the Medal for Distinguished Service from Columbia University. Still active as ever\, she has a strong social media following and continues to write books\, teach\, and give great advice. The Library of Congress has chosen to house her collected papers\, joining the distinguished collections of other celebrated figures in her field — from Margaret Sanger to Sigmund Freud. \n \nSign up to meet her and then\, as a FREE BONUS\, see a film about her amazing and inspirational life! \nAlso\, autographed copies of her best-selling children’s book Roller-Coaster Grandma are available ($18 including free US shipping). The perfect gift for a young person in your life! Please note that you must be registered for the program to order an autographed book. Limited supply! \nxxxxx \nMEET THE DISTINGUISHED INTERVIEWER\nxxxxx \n \nDr. Jud Newborn served as the Founding Historian and co-creator of New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage. He is the author of the acclaimed Sophie Scholl and the White Rose\, recently reissued in an expanded edition. He has lectured worldwide\, including at the United Nations. Following three years of adventurous fieldwork in Europe as a Fulbright and Woodrow Wilson National Fellow\, including hunting down former SS officers and working undercover for Poland’s “Solidarity” freedom movement during Communism\, he was awarded his PhD with Distinction by the University of Chicago. He received the Anne Frank Center’s prestigious “Spirit of Anne Frank Award” and has won an Emmy. \nxxxxx \nThis program has ended.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/dr-ruth-westheimer-94th-birthday-celebration/
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Shalom China
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nChina has a long and storied Jewish history dating back to at least the eighth century. The Jews of Kaifeng\, who disappeared through assimilation and intermarriage\, are undergoing a resurgence with their descendants reclaiming their lost identities. There were also substantial communities\, now lost\, in Harbin and Shanghai. Many Austrian Jews also came to Shanghai seeking refuge from Nazi-occupied Europe\, rescued by the Holocaust hero Feng Shan Ho\, the “angel of Vienna.” Today\, the Jewish population in China is approximately 2\,500 people. Image: Page with names in Hebrew and Chinese from a Kaifeng Jewish prayer book\, collection of the Klau Library in Cincinnati. \n \n  \nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \n \nEster Shifren is the descendant of five generations of British Jews who lived in Shanghai from the 1840s to 1951. Her family owned six winning race horses and lived in a 24-room house. But their lives changed forever during World War II when they were interned for three years in a Japanese POW camp and suffered extreme hardship\, severe deprivation\, illnesses and the loss of all worldly possessions. They left China for nascent Israel in 1951. Destitute after all their losses\, the family was settled in a transit camp\, living in tents and later in one-roomed prefab wooden huts. Ester is an international speaker\, visual artist\, journalist\, classical and jazz musician and the author of Hiding in a Cave of Trunks: A Prominent Jewish Family’s Century in Shanghai and Internment in a WWII POW Camp. In 2005 she was featured in the BBC1 program\, “We’ll Meet Again” and was a guest lecturer for several days at the Imperial War Museum.  \nNicholas Zane (right) is the creator of the website www.chinesejews.com and an expert on the Jews of Kaifeng. He is the author of Jews in China: A History of Struggle and Chinese Jews: The Tribe That Israel Never Truly Lost and has created a children’s series on a friendship between a Jewish boy and Chinese girl in the Song Dynasty. Born in Hong Kong to a non-Jewish family\, he moved to Britain at the age of 13. Upon learning about the experience of the Chinese Jews\, Nicholas was compelled to learn more and to share their story. He is an undergraduate at Dartmouth College and has lectured at Oxford University\, the British House of Parliament and elsewhere. \nRobert Jacobvitz (left)\, who will moderate the program\, serves on the Executive Committee of the Sousa Mendes Foundation and chairs its Advisory Council. For ten years he directed the Jewish Community Relations Council of the Greater East Bay\, and it was in this capacity in the 1980’s that he began championing the cause of Aristides de Sousa Mendes. In 2005 he received the Aristides de Sousa Mendes Humanitarian Medal from the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation. He wrote a seminal article on Aristides de Sousa Mendes that can be read at this link. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/shalom-china/
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion
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SUMMARY:"We are all Jews here" -- The Story of Roddie Edmonds
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nFootsteps of My Father\, an award-winning film produced by the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous\, presents the extraordinary story of Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds\, the only American soldier recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations. \n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\nxxxxx \n⇒ Watch the JFR’s award-winning film Footsteps of My Father on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. Please note that the film will be available at the following times:  Friday\, March 4\, 9 AM-4 PM Eastern Time and from Saturday\, March 5 at 8 PM Eastern Time until Sunday\, March 6 at 2 PM Eastern Time. \n⇒ Sunday\, March 6 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of guests.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \nPastor Chris Edmonds is the son of WWII hero Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds. He is the author of No Surrender: A Father\, a Son\, and an Extraordinary Act of Heroism That Continues to Live on Today. Recently retired as Senior Pastor of Piney Grove Baptist Church in Maryville\, Tennessee\, Pastor Chris works to extend his father’s legacy of choosing good\, opposing hate\, dignifying life\, and expressing love to all. He is a business graduate from the University of Tennessee and holds a Master of Arts in Religion from Liberty Theological Seminary. As the founder of Roddie’s Code\, Pastor Chris is committed to perpetuating his father’s legacy. Sergeant Edmonds’ incredible story and Chris’ improbable journey to discover it is inspiring millions of ordinary people to do what’s right for others and be the hero. \nStanlee J. Stahl is the Executive Vice President of The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous. During Stanlee’s tenure\, the Foundation has sent more than $42 million dollars to Righteous Gentiles who saved Jews during the Holocaust. She also oversees the Foundation’s renowned national Holocaust education program. Before joining the Foundation\, Stanlee establish Extra Helping\, a program to feed New Jersey’s hungry. Stanlee spent 20 years working for the United States Department of Health and Human Services. She lived in Israel where she worked for Magen David Adom\, Israel’s Red Cross Society. She graduated from Miami University in Ohio and has graduate degrees from George Washington University and New York University.  \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed. \n\n  \nThis program is co-presented with:
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/we-are-all-jews-here-the-story-of-roddie-edmonds/
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:The Border of Truth
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nLike so many children of survivors and refugees\, author Victoria Redel grew up in the shadows of her parents’ different escapes from war. For a writer\, such ambiguity is rich soil. Redel’s father left Europe with a visa authorized by the Holocaust rescuer Aristides de Sousa Mendes. From Lisbon he embarked on the Portuguese ship the Quanza and was among the 86 passengers retained on the ship in New York and then in Mexico to be sent back to Lisbon and then presumably to be repatriated into Nazi-occupied Belgium. The ship\, after refueling with coal in Virginia\, was saved by the remarkable efforts of Eleanor Roosevelt in outsmarting Secretary of State Cordell Hull. The Border of Truth is a fictionalized account of this dramatic story. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE AUTHOR\nxxxxx \nVictoria Redel is the author of three books of poetry and five books of fiction. Her fourth book of poems\, Paradise\, is forthcoming in February 2022. A recipient of numerous awards including fellowships from the Guggenheim and the NEA\, her work has been widely awarded\, anthologized and translated into ten languages. Redel’s novel Loverboy was adapted for feature film\, premiered at Sundance and directed by Kevin Bacon. She has taught at Columbia University\, Davidson College\, Vermont College of Fine Arts and is on the Sarah Lawrence College faculty.  \nxxxxx \nMEET THE INTERVIEWER\nxxxxx \n \nChanan Tigay is an award-winning journalist and nonfiction writer whose work has appeared in publications including Smithsonian magazine\, the Atlantic\, GQ\, and the New Yorker. His first book\, The Lost Book of Moses: The Hunt for the World’s Oldest Bible\, won the Anne & Robert Cowan Writers Prize. His next book\, Serpents in the Garden\, is forthcoming from Public Affairs. He is a recent fellow of Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute and an associate professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University.  His article on Aristides de Sousa Mendes appeared in the November 2021 issue of Smithsonian magazine. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/the-border-of-truth/
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Hans and Sophie Scholl and the White Rose Anti-Nazi Resistance Movement
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nSophie Scholl was a German student and anti-Nazi political activist\, co-founder of the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany. She was convicted of high treason after having been found distributing anti-Nazi leaflets throughout Germany with her brother\, Hans Scholl. They dropped hundreds of these leaflets from a high gallery at the University of Munich down on crowds of students milling about below — arguably the only full-fledged public protest against Nazism to have occurred. Meet Holocaust historian and anthropologist Dr. Jud Newborn\, the world’s leading authority on Hans and Sophie Scholl\, who will inspire you and motivate you to speak truth to power. \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ January 28-31\, watch a documentary film about Hans and Sophie Scholl and the White Rose Anti-Nazi Resistance on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, January 30 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nxxxxx \n \nDr. Jud Newborn served as the Founding Historian and co-creator of New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage. He is the author of the acclaimed Sophie Scholl and the White Rose\, recently reissued in an expanded edition. He has lectured worldwide\, including at the United Nations. Following three years of adventurous fieldwork in Europe as a Fulbright and Woodrow Wilson National Fellow\, including hunting down former SS officers and working undercover for Poland’s “Solidarity” freedom movement during Communism\, he was awarded his PhD with Distinction by the University of Chicago. In 2018 he was honored by the Anne Frank Center with the “Spirit of Anne Frank Award.” \nInterviewer Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff fled Nazi-occupied Europe from Kosice\, Slovakia\, as a small child in 1941\, via Lisbon\, Portugal. Miriam is an appointee to the Florida Education Commissioner’s Holocaust Task Force. She is the Founding Director of the University of Miami Holocaust Institute and is a frequent speaker on Holocaust education at conferences and workshops nationwide. In February 2019 she was given a Special Tribute by the Florida House of Representatives for her work on behalf of the Jewish Community of Florida. In October 2019\, she was honored in Pittsburgh\, PA with The Lifetime Achievement Award given by Classrooms Without Borders. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/sophie-scholl-and-the-white-rose/
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:The Lost Book of Moses
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nThe Lost Book of Moses: The Hunt for the World’s Oldest Bible\, tells the story of the oldest Bible in the world\, how its outing as a fraud led to a scandalous death\, and why archaeologists now believe it was real — if only they could find it. At once historical drama and modern-day investigation\, the book simultaneously explores the 19th-century disappearance of a controversial Bible and the author’s hunt for the manuscript across eight countries and four continents. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE AUTHOR\nxxxxx \n \nChanan Tigay is an award-winning journalist and nonfiction writer whose work has appeared in publications including Smithsonian magazine\, the Atlantic\, GQ\, and the New Yorker. His first book\, The Lost Book of Moses: The Hunt for the World’s Oldest Bible\, won the Anne & Robert Cowan Writers Prize. His next book\, Serpents in the Garden\, is forthcoming from Public Affairs. He is a recent fellow of Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute and an associate professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University.  His article on Aristides de Sousa Mendes appeared in the November 2021 issue of Smithsonian magazine. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE INTERVIEWER\nxxxxx \nVictoria Redel is the author of three books of poetry and five books of fiction\, her fourth book of poems\, Paradise\, is forthcoming in February 2022. A recipient of numerous awards including fellowships from the Guggenheim and the NEA\, her work has been widely awarded\, anthologized and translated into ten languages. Redel’s novel Loverboy was adapted for feature film\, premiered at Sundance and directed by Kevin Bacon. She has taught at Columbia University\, Davidson College\, Vermont College of Fine Arts and is on the Sarah Lawrence College faculty.  \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/the-lost-book-of-moses/
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211128
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SUMMARY:Fleeing Mussolini -- Italian-Jewish Refugees in the United States
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nThis program is about the exile of Italian Jews to America. Fleeing Mussolini’s racial laws\, roughly two thousand Italian Jews landed in America in the 1930s and 40s. They didn’t fit in with either the Italian-American community or the Jewish-American community\, yet many Italian Jewish refugees became leaders in their professions and productive contributors to American life.\n \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \n \nDr. Natalia Indrimi (left) is an expert on Italy during the Holocaust. She is the director of the Centro Primo Levi in New York and previously was director of programs at the Center for Jewish History. She has coordinated research projects and conferences on many aspects of Fascism and the persecution of the Jews in Italy presented by institutions including New York University\, Columbia University\, the New School\, CUNY\, the United Nations\, the Library of Congress\, the Italian Cultural Institute\, and the New York Public Library. \nGianna Pontecorboli (right) was born in Camogli (Genoa) and graduated in Economics at the University of Genoa in 1968. She then embarked on a career in journalism in Milan\, working for Editoriale Domus and Rizzoli. After moving to New York in 1979 she became a US and UN correspondent for various Italian newspapers and director of Radio 105 in New York. She is now a correspondent for the Swiss paper Il Corriere del Ticino and Lettera22 of Italy. Her book America Nuova Terra Promessa was published in Italian by Brioschi Editore in 2013 and then in English with the title Americordo by CPL Editions in 2016. \n \nMassimo Calabresi is Time magazine’s Washington Bureau Chief. He leads a team of editors and writers responsible for news\, features and investigations on American politics and policy. Calabresi joined Time’s DC bureau in 1999 and has covered the CIA\, the State Department\, the Justice Department\, the Treasury Department\, Congress and the White House. He was the magazine’s senior investigative correspondent from 2013-17. He covered the wars in Bosnia\, Croatia and Kosovo as Time’s Central Europe bureau chief from 1995-99 and the collapse of the Soviet Union and its aftermath as a freelancer in Moscow from 1991-93. \n \nAnnalisa Capristo writes about the effects of the anti-Semitic Fascist laws on Italian academia and Italian culture\, the reactions of Jewish and non-Jewish intellectuals (Italian and foreign) to the persecution\, and the the flight of Jewish scholars from Italy. She holds a postgraduate degree from the Vatican School of Library Sciences. Her books include L’espulsione degli ebrei dalle accademie italiane\, Il registro; La cacciata degli ebrei dallo Stato italiano nei protocolli della Corte dei Conti\, 1938–43 and Il razzismo del duce: Mussolini dal ministero dell’Interno alla Repubblica sociale italiana. She co-edited Let Our Music be Played: Italian Jewish Musicians and Composers under Fascism. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed. \n\nThis program is co-presented with the Centro Primo Levi.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/fleeing-mussolini/
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211024
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211025
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SUMMARY:Miep Gies and the Rescue of Anne Frank's Diary
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK • 7 PM LONDON\nxxxxx \nThis program pays tribute to the woman who sheltered Anne Frank for three years and then rescued her now-famous diary. Miep Gies oversaw the “secret annex” where the Frank family was housed\, while sheltering another Jewish person in her own home.  Meet Gillian Walnes Perry who knew Miep Gies well and accompanied her to the Academy Awards and Meeg Pincus who wrote a delightful book on Miep Gies for young people. \nxxxxx \nTHE PERFECT GIFT! \nMiep and the Most Famous Diary: The Woman Who Saved Anne Frank’s Diary by Meeg Pincus \nLooking for a Chanukah or birthday gift for a young person in your life? Order a signed and inscribed copy of this delightful book. Indicate your interest on the event registration form and we will follow up with you for the name and the address of the intended recipient\, the inscription\, and payment information.  Price: $18 plus shipping. \n\n\nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \n\nIn 1990\, Gillian Walnes Perry (left) set up the Anne Frank Trust UK with friends and family of the late Otto Frank. She has spoken at the UN in front of Secretary-General Kofi Annan\, and at 10 Downing Street\, the UK Houses of Parliament and most recently the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock\, Arkansas. She is the author of The Legacy of Anne Frank (2018) and The Social History of English Afternoon Tea (forthcoming). In 2010 Gillian was honored for her educational work by Her Majesty The Queen and was inducted as a Member of the Order of the British Empire in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace. \n\n \nMeeg Pincus (right) is the author of Miep and the Most Famous Diary: The Woman Who Rescued Anne Frank’s Diary (A Mighty Girl “Best Books of 2019” Pick\, “highly recommended” by the Jewish Book Council\, with starred reviews from Kirkus and School Library Journal). She has also authored 24 other nonfiction picture books about “solutionaries” who help people\, animals\, and the planet. Meeg is a long-time nonfiction writer/editor (from newspapers and magazines to books)\, educator (from university and elementary classrooms to homeschool)\, and diverse books advocate. She lives in Southern California and can be found online at www.MeegPincus.com. \n \nSharon Douglas (left) is the CEO of the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect and is a philanthropist\, business advisor\, and educator. In 1999\, she was a member of the delegation to the United Nations for the Anne Frank Declaration of Peace and has for the past two decades represented the Anne Frank Center at numerous events in England and the Netherlands. A long-standing board member of the Anne Frank Center\, Sharon also serves as the Secretary of the Board\, and\, with her husband Preston Douglas\, was the 2016 winner of the Spirit of Anne Frank Distinguished Advocates Award. Sharon holds a BA in Education\, with graduate study at Queens College and St. John’s University. \n \nMariana Abrantes (right)\, who will moderate the panel\, is the Board Treasurer 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 for this program is closed. \n\nxxxxx \nThis program is presented in partnership with the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/miep-gies-and-the-diary-of-anne-frank/
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion
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SUMMARY:The Catcher Was a Spy — The Moe Berg Story
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nMorris “Moe” Berg was a Jewish American catcher and coach in Major League Baseball\, who later served as a spy for the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. A graduate of Princeton University and Columbia Law School\, Berg spoke numerous languages and read ten newspapers a day. His reputation as an intellectual was fueled by his successful appearances as a contestant on the radio quiz show Information Please. Berg was sent by the US government to determine whether the German physicist Werner Heisenberg was developing an atomic bomb for Nazi Germany\, and Berg was authorized to shoot Heisenberg if he had definitive proof in the affirmative. Meet Nicholas Dawidoff\, author of the best-selling book on which the motion picture was based. He will be in conversation with the well-known journalist and podcaster Jacob Goldstein. \nxxxxx \nWATCH THE TRAILER\n \n  \n\nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ October 15-18\, watch The Catcher Was a Spy on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, October 17 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nxxxxx \n \nNicholas Dawidoff (right) is the author of the national bestseller The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg on which the feature film was based. His biographical memoir of his economist grandfather\, The Fly Swatter: Portrait of an Exceptional Character\, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His memoir\, The Crowd Sounds Happy\, won the Kenneth Johnson Book Award for outstanding literary writing about mental illness. Collision Low Crossers was a finalist for a PEN America book award and was called “an instant classic” by The New York Times. He has been a Henry Luce Scholar\, a Guggenheim Fellow\, a Berlin Prize fellow of the American Academy\, an Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at Princeton University\, and is a Davenport Fellow at Yale University. His articles appear in The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine.  \nJacob Goldstein (left) is an executive producer at Pushkin Industries\, an independent podcast company. Previously he spent more than a decade as co-host of the Planet Money podcast. He is the author of Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing\, which the New York Times called “a history of currency full of astonishing tales you might tell a friend in the pub.” Jacob worked as a staff writer at the Wall Street Journal\, the Miami Herald\, and the Bozeman Daily Chronicle. He has done stories for The New York Times Magazine\, This American Life\, Morning Edition and All Things Considered. He has a bachelor’s degree in English from Stanford University and a master’s in journalism from Columbia University.  He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two daughters. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/catcher-spy/
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:The Lady in Gold: The Remarkable Story of Klimt's Nazi-Looted Painting and its Recovery
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK • 7 PM LONDON • 8 PM VIENNA\nxxxxx \nPortrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (also called The Lady in Gold or The Woman in Gold) is a painting by Gustav Klimt. The portrait was commissioned by the sitter’s husband\, Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer\, a Jewish banker and sugar producer. The painting was stolen by the Nazis in 1941 and displayed at the Galerie Belvedere in Vienna. After a seven-year legal claim\, which included a hearing before the US Supreme Court\, an arbitration committee in Vienna agreed that the painting had indeed been stolen from the family and should be returned. Meet the American journalist Anne-Marie O’Connor who first broke the story to US audiences.  \nxxxxx \nWATCH THE TRAILER\n \n  \n\nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ October 8-11 (optional) rent/watch the film Woman in Gold on your home device ($3.99). A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, October 10 at 2 PM ET\, tune into the presentation and discussion with Anne-Marie O’Connor.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE AUTHOR\nxxxxx \nAnne-Marie O’Connor is the author of the award-winning New York Times bestseller The Lady in Gold\, the true story that inspired the feature film Woman in Gold starring Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds. She is a veteran journalist and war correspondent who has reported for The Miami Herald\, the Los Angeles Times\, the Washington Post\, and other media. Her story on Maria Altmann’s effort to recover her artwork appeared in the Los Angeles Times Magazine in 2001. O’Connor attended Vassar and the San Francisco Art Institute and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley\, where she and fellow students co-created an award-winning documentary on the repression of artists after the 1973 military coup in Chile. She lives in London. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/woman-in-gold/
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210830
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SUMMARY:Natan Sharansky in Conversation with Gil Troy
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK • 9 PM JERUSALEM\nxxxxx \nSee the award-winning documentary film From Slavery to Freedom and then meet Natan Sharansky in person. He will be in dialogue with historian Dr. Gil Troy\, and they will take your questions.\n \nxxxxx \n\nSIGNED BOOKS AVAILABLE!\n \nxxxxx \nSEE THE TRAILER\nxxxxx \n\n \n  \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ August 27-30\, watch Arkady Kogan‘s film From Slavery to Freedom on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, August 29 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of guests.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE DISTINGUISHED PANEL\nxxxxx \nNatan Sharansky was born in Donetsk\, Ukraine. He was a spokesman for the human rights movement\, a Prisoner of Zion and leader in the struggle for the right of Soviet Jews to emigrate to Israel. Subsequent to his request to make aliyah\, Mr. Sharansky was arrested on trumped up charges of treason and espionage. He was convicted in a Soviet court and served nine years in the Gulag with many stretches in a punishing cell. Following massive public campaigns by the State of Israel\, world Jewry and leaders of the free world\, Mr. Sharansky was released in 1986\, making aliyah on the very day of his release. In his first few years in Israel\, Mr. Sharansky established the Zionist Forum to assist Soviet olim in their absorption into Israel. In the 1990’s\, he established the Yisrael B’Aliyah party in order to accelerate the integration of Russian Jews. He served in four successive Israeli governments\, as Minister and Deputy Prime Minister. In 2018 he received the highest Israeli award\, the Israel Prize\, for promoting aliyah and the ingathering of the exiles. Mr. Sharansky is the recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1986 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2006. He is the only living non-American citizen who is the recipient of these two highest American awards. From 2009-18 Natan Sharansky served as Chairman of the Executive of the Jewish Agency for Israel. After retirement from the Jewish Agency\, he continues to serve as Chairman of the Shlihut Institute\, which he founded. In July 2019 Mr. Sharansky became Chair of ISGAP (The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy). Mr. Sharansky is the author of Fear No Evil\, The Case for Democracy\, Defending Identity and\, most recently\, with Gil Troy\,  Never Alone: Prison\, Politics\, and My People. \n \nDr. Gil Troy is a Distinguished Scholar of North American History at McGill University. He was recently designated as an Algemeiner J-100\, one of the top 100 people “positively influencing Jewish life.” He wrote The Age of Clinton: America in the 1990s and eight other books on the American presidency. His book Moynihan’s Moment: America’s Fight against Zionism as Racism describes the fall of the UN\, the rise of Reagan and the spread of anti-Zionism. Troy has appeared as a featured commentator on CNN’s multipart documentaries\, The Eighties\, The Nineties\, and The 2000s and has been interviewed on most major North American TV and radio networks. He has published essays and columns in The New York Times\, The Daily Beast\, and The Jerusalem Post. He chairs Taglit-Birthright Israel’s International Education Committee. His new book\, co-authored with Natan Sharansky\, Never Alone: Prison\, Politics\, and My People\, was just published by PublicAffairs of Hachette. He currently lives in Jerusalem. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/natan-sharansky-in-conversation-with-gil-troy/
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion
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SUMMARY:Shalom Uganda
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\n7 PM LISBON • 9 PM UGANDA\nxxxxx \nLearn about a small Ashkenazi Jewish community that settled in the African country of Uganda after World War II. With no rabbi or Jewish infrastructure\, this community of twenty-three families formed a cohesive group that celebrated all Jewish festivals together and upheld their Jewish identity. There is also a small but vibrant indigenous Jewish Ugandan community that survived persecution under the regime of Idi Amin and that survives to this day. Meet representatives of both communities. \n \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \n \nJanice Masur was born in Eritrea\, spent her childhood in Uganda\, and attended university in New Zealand—all countries where Jewry was barely visible on the Jewish diaspora spectrum. She is the author of Shalom Uganda: A Jewish Community on the Equator. Today\, Masur feels strongly rooted in her Jewish community in Vancouver\, Canada\, where she lives with her husband. The author\, a retired physiotherapist\, has also held a photographic exhibit in 2019 entitled “Shalom Uganda” and has spoken in London\, England\, Toronto and Seattle\, Windhoek\, Namibia and Vancouver. She delights in sharing the historical stories of her Jewish community.  \n \nRabbi Gershom Sizomu is the rabbi\, spiritual leader and Rosh Yeshivah of the Abayudaya Congregation in Uganda. The first Jew from Sub-Saharan Africa to be ordained at a conventional rabbinic college\, he obtained a bachelors degree in education from the Islamic University of Uganda in 1999 and was ordained at the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies in Los Angeles in 2008. In 2016 Rabbi Sizomu became the first Jew in Uganda to be elected to a five-year term as a Member of Parliament where he represented the people of Bungokho County. He is also a musician and wrote most of the songs in the Grammy-nominated album Music from the Jewish People of Uganda. \n \nRobert Jacobvitz\, who will moderate the program\, serves on the Sousa Mendes Foundation Board and chairs its Advisory Council. For ten years he directed the Jewish Community Relations Council of the Greater East Bay\, and it was in this capacity in the 1980’s that he began championing the cause of Aristides de Sousa Mendes. In 2005 he received the Aristides de Sousa Mendes Humanitarian Medal from the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation. He wrote a seminal article on Aristides de Sousa Mendes that can be read at this link.x \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed. \nRexx
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/shalom-uganda/
CATEGORIES:Book Talk
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SUMMARY:Lessons in Moral Courage -- Irshad Manji in conversation with Abraham H. Foxman
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nIrshad Manji is the winner of Oprah Winfrey’s first annual Chutzpah Award for boldness. As founder of the Moral Courage Project\, Irshad equips people to do the right thing in the face of fear. She discovered her mission through a deeply personal journey. In 2003\, Irshad released The Trouble with Islam Today\, an open letter to her fellow Muslims about why anti-Semitism and other prejudices must end in the name of Allah. In 2007\, Irshad turned the book into an Emmy-nominated PBS film\, Faith Without Fear. And in 2011\, she published Allah\, Liberty & Love\, which shows how Islam can be reinterpreted for the 21st century. Along the way\, Irshad became a professor of moral courage — first teaching at New York University and now lecturing with Oxford University’s Initiative for Global Ethics and Human Rights. Irshad’s latest book is Don’t Label Me. In our deeply polarized time\, she says\, standing for what’s right is not enough to make progress. We must also learn to engage the “Other.” Labeling is easy. But listening is a form of moral courage. \nxxxxx \nLEARN ABOUT THE TRANSFORMATIONAL MOMENT IN IRSHAD’S LIFE\n  \n\nxxxxx \nMEET THE DISTINGUISHED INTERVIEWER\nxxxxx \n \nInterviewing Irshad Manji will be Abraham H. Foxman. After serving 28 years as National Director and a total of fifty years with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL)\, Foxman retired in 2015 and became National Director Emeritus. He is world-renowned as a leader in the fight against anti-semitism\, bigotry and discrimination and speaks out on issues of global anti-semitism\, the war on terrorism\, church/state issues\, religious intolerance and issues relating to the Holocaust. During his long and distinguished career\, Foxman has had consultations with world leaders on every continent including the three most recent popes. Abraham Foxman was a hidden child in Poland during the Holocaust. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed. \nxxxxx \n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooks available! \nxxxxx \nBoth authors are offering signed and inscribed books in conjunction with this program. A rare opportunity! For details and to order yours\, click here. \nxxxxx
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/lessons-in-moral-courage-a-conversation-with-irshad-manji/
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion,Lecture
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SUMMARY:Resistance of the Heart - A Valentine's Day Program
DESCRIPTION:The Rosenstrasse Protest is the nearly-forgotten story of a group of women in Berlin who faced down the Third Reich — and won! In February of 1943\, several hundred non-Jewish wives of Jewish men faced down Hitler’s genocidal policy and the SS to secure the release of their captured husbands. Nathan Stoltzfus is the world’s expert on this history\, and he will be in dialogue with historian Mordecai Paldiel as well as Ruth Wiseman\, whose family lived this story. \n\n\n xxxxx\nMEET THE PANEL\n xxxxx\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nNathan Stoltzfus is the Rintels Professor of Holocaust Studies at Florida State University. His book Resistance of the Heart: Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Nazi Germany won numerous prestigious awards. His other books include Hitler’s Compromises: Coercion and Consensus in Nazi Germany\, Protest in Hitler’s National Community: Social Unrest and the Nazi Response\, Nazi Crimes and the Law and Courageous Resistance: The Power of Ordinary People. He is currently co-editing a book titled Women Defying Hitler. He has established the Rosenstrasse Foundation to document this forgotten history. \nRuth Wiseman graduated from U.C. Davis in 1992 with a B.A. in International Relations and Russian. After college she spent a year in Russia\, where she interviewed Jews born in pre-Soviet times. Upon returning to her hometown of Berkeley\, CA\, she interviewed Russian survivors for the Holocaust Oral History Project. She was later approached by Survivors of the Shoah to be an interviewer and conducted more than three dozen interviews for the organization. Ruth is the daughter of Dr. Rita Jenny Kuhn\, a Shoah survivor from Berlin\, Germany who was detained at Rosenstrasse in February 1943 and released through the brave efforts of the women who protested the arrests. Ruth is the author of How the Moon Became Dim (Saturn’s Moon Press\, 2017). She is working on a version of the Rosenstrasse Protest for children.  \n \nDr. Mordecai Paldiel headed the Righteous Among the Nations Department at Yad Vashem from 1982-2007. His books include The Path of the Righteous\, Sheltering the Jews\, Saving the Jews\, Diplomat Heroes of the Holocaust\, Saving One’s Own: Jewish Rescuers During the Holocaust and The Righteous Among the Nations. He teaches at Stern College 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 as well as a street named for Raoul Wallenberg\, both in Jerusalem. He is a member of the B’nai Brith committee in Israel honoring Jewish rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. \n\nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed. \n\n 
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/resistance-of-the-heart-a-valentines-day-program/
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion
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SUMMARY:In My Mother's Footsteps
DESCRIPTION:Caught within the ever-approaching steel jaws of Nazi exterminators\, 19-year-old Leah Steppel from Dusseldorf successfully escapes Europe via Portugal — thanks to a precious visa from Aristides de Sousa Mendes. More than seven decades later\, her daughter Rebecca Barber retraces Leah’s footsteps to freedom. \n\n\n xxxxx\nTHE SCHEDULE\nxxxxx \n⇒ February 5-8 (optional) watch the film Disobedience: The Sousa Mendes Story ($6.99) on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register\, with film rental instructions. \n⇒ Sunday\, February 7 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the free presentation by Rebecca Barber in discussion with Robert Jacobvitz. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\n xxxxx\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nRebecca Barber is the author of In My Mother’s Footsteps: An Odyssey of Faith and Courage about her mother’s journey to freedom in 1939-1940 and her own journey in 2017 with the Sousa Mendes Foundation through France\, Spain and Portugal. Using meticulous historical research and clues her mother left behind\, Rebecca solves one mystery after another about her family history. Her presentation will include a dramatic reading from Leah’s exodus diary. She is a frequent public speaker to audiences at Holocaust museums and genealogical societies. Her book is available at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and at this link. \n \nRobert Jacobvitz\, who will be in conversation with Rebecca Barber\, serves on the Sousa Mendes Foundation Board. For ten years he directed the Jewish Community Relations Council of the Greater East Bay\, and it was in this capacity in the 1980’s that he began championing the cause of Aristides de Sousa Mendes. In 2005 he received the Aristides de Sousa Mendes Humanitarian Medal from the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation. He wrote a seminal article on Aristides de Sousa Mendes that can be read at this link.xxxxx \n\nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed. Instructions and links will be sent by email on Friday\, February 5 and again on the morning of the program to all who registered.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/in-my-mothers-footsteps/
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion
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SUMMARY:The Jewish James Bond and Other Heroes
DESCRIPTION:Go behind the scenes and get to know some of the colorful characters who participated in Operation Zebra — the 1947-49 mission to help rescue newborn Israel’s 600\,000 Jews and provide a safe haven for Holocaust survivors. The heroes include the Jewish James Bond\, Yehuda Arazi\, the operation’s whimsical chief pilot\, Sam Lewis\, and its cowgirl flight instructor\, Elynor Rudnick. Meet Arazi’s grandson and namesake\, and Lewis’ daughter\, who was a teenager during the operation\, as well as Boaz Dvir\, who captured their tales in the 2015 award-winning PBS documentary A Wing and a Prayer and the 2020 critically acclaimed book Saving Israel. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \nIsraeli-American filmmaker Boaz Dvir tells stories of ordinary people who transform into trailblazers: an inner-city schoolteacher who becomes a disruptive innovator (Discovering Gloria); a truck driver who becomes a child-protection activist (Jessie’s Dad); a Holocaust survivor who sets out to kill his father’s Nazi executioner (Cojot); and a flight engineer who leads a secret\, illegal operation to prevent what he views as a second Holocaust (A Wing and a Prayer\, winner of Best Documentary at the 2016 Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival). He serves on the Journalism faculty of Penn State University\, where he also directs the Holocaust\, Genocide & Human Rights Education Initiative. He is the author of Saving Israel (2020). \n \nSandra Brown is the daughter of Operation Zebra’s chief pilot\, the late Sam Lewis. She was a high school student during the years (1947-49) her father participated in the secret\, illegal operation to provide an air force and weapons to newborn Israel. Before joining the operation\, Sam served as TWA’s first Jewish captain. After the operation\, Sam become El Al’s first chief pilot. Along with nine other members\, he stood trial in 1950 for breaking the US arms embargo and Neutrality Act. Sandra recalls attending the trial in Los Angeles and feeling surprised that her father was the only member of the team to be found not guilty. For 25 years she was the director of North Hollywood Adult Learning Center\, from which she is now retired. \n \nYehuda Arazi is the grandson and namesake of the “Jewish James Bond” and will share stories about his grandfather’s daring exploits. He lives with his wife and two children in Las Vegas\, where he works as a district manager at BenefitMall. A former software associate at Vanguard Integrity Professionals\, he graduated from California State University\, Northridge with a bachelor’s degree in the humanities. “I have felt honored my whole life being named after my grandfather\,” Arazi said. “It has been my privilege to continuously learn of his many contributions\, his daring missions and the bravery he possessed helping the establishment of Israel and arming of its army and air force with their first planes.” \nxxxxx \nRegistration has closed for this program. If you have registered\, you will receive confirmation and instructions on Friday\, January 1\, 2021 and again on the morning of the program.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/virtual-program-the-jewish-james-bond-and-other-heroes/
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201206
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SUMMARY:Virtual program: Women of Valor -- Stories of Resistance in Paris
DESCRIPTION:4 PM US EASTERN TIME\, 1 PM US PACIFIC TIME \nIn February 1943\, at the height of the deportations from France\, a daring group of Jewish and Christian women banded together to stage the largest single rescue operation in wartime Paris. Please join Anne Nelson\, author of Suzanne’s Children\, and Joanne Gilbert\, author of Women of Valor\, as they describe these women — including Suzanne Spaak\, Sophie Schwartz\, Frida Wattenberg and others — who risked everything to fight back against evil.\n \n  \n \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nxxxxx \n \nAuthor Joanne D. Gilbert was profoundly affected by the stories told by her grandmother\, who had been able to leave Vilna\, Lithuania before the Nazis destroyed the Jewish community there. Joanne became dedicated to finding and celebrating the truth of Jewish heroism during the Holocaust. Her books Women of Valor: Polish Jewish Resisters to the Third Reich (2018) and A Victory for Miriam! The Little Jewish Girl Who Defied the Nazis (2019) have received outstanding reviews. Her next book Women of Valor: German\, French\, & Dutch Resisters to the Third Reich will be published in 2021. Along with the Paris walking tour company Sight-Seekers Delight\, Joanne is currently developing a walking tour of the Jewish Resistance in Paris. \nAnne Nelson is a prize-winning author who has written extensively about human rights and freedom of expression. Her 2017 book\, Suzanne’s Children: A Daring Rescue in Nazi Paris\, told the story of Suzanne Spaak and her extensive network to rescue Jewish children from deportation to Auschwitz. It was a finalist in the National Jewish Book Awards. Her previous book\, Red Orchestra\, described a leading anti-Nazi resistance network in Berlin\, and was an Editors’ Choice at The New York Times. Her current work\, Shadow Network\, deals with the political crisis in the United States today. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/virtual-program-women-of-valor-stories-of-resistance-in-paris/
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201122T150000
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SUMMARY:Virtual program: Safe Haven in Iowa\, an Untold Story
DESCRIPTION:Did you know that there were Jewish refugees in Iowa during World War II?  Tune in to learn about this fascinating and untold story. Meet Edith Lichtenstein Froehlig\, originally from Limburg\, Germany\, who was brought by the Quakers to Iowa\, where she lived in a converted schoolhouse called Scattergood Hostel as one of 185 Jewish refugees. She will be in dialogue with Dr. Michael Luick-Thrams\, the world’s expert on this story\, and they will take your questions. We will also watch a short film on this history called Out of Hitler’s Reach produced by the PBS station in Iowa. \nxxxxx \nAbove:  Edith Lichtenstein (holding kitten) sits with her brother Louis and two other child refugees at Scattergood Hostel\, West Branch\, Iowa\, ca.1942. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nxxxxx \nMichael Luick-Thrams is the leading world authority on the story of how the Quakers brought Jewish refugees to Iowa during World War II and saved their lives. He is the Executive Director of TRACES Center for History and Culture and the author of Out of Hitler’s Reach: The Scattergood Hostel for European Refugees\, 1939-43 (1997) and Creating “New Americans”: World War II-Era European Refugees’ Formation of American Identities (2020). He has also written and spoken about the correspondence between Anne Frank and her Iowa penpal\, 10-year-old Juanita Wagner. Born and raised in Iowa\, Michael Luick-Thrams lives and teaches in Germany. \n \nEdith Lichtenstein Froehlig was born in Limburg\, Germany and found a safe haven in Iowa after escaping Nazi-occupied Europe. In Iowa she and her brother attended public schools while their parents were given English lessons and taught to integrate into American life. When her family was deemed “ready” after ten months in Iowa\, they were relocated by the Quakers to Minnesota\, where she spent the remainder of her childhood. She then attended Macalester College in Saint Paul\, Minnesota\, where her father had joined the faculty. Today she is retired from a career in education. \n \nDonald Davis is the archivist for the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)\, a Quaker organization that promotes lasting peace with justice\, as a practical expression of faith in action. The AFSC archives contain records from its founding in 1917 to current work in immigration\, peace building and social/economic justice. The primary sources contained in the AFSC archives provide a level of forethought\, analysis\, detail\, and perspective that is not often seen in historical documentation. One of his primary goals is to make the historically significant work of the American Friends Service Committee more widely known throughout the world. \nxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed. \n 
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/safe-haven-in-iowa/
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion
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SUMMARY:Virtual program:  The Bystander's Choice
DESCRIPTION:If you are a bystander and witness a crime\, should intervention to prevent that crime be a legal obligation? Or is moral responsibility enough? Law professor Amos Guiora\, the son of Holocaust survivors\, argues provocatively and controversially that we must make the obligation to intervene the law\, and thus non-intervention a crime. He will be in dialogue with Holocaust historians Dr. Victoria Barnett\, formerly of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum\, and Dr. Mordecai Paldiel\, formerly of Yad Vashem. Following our recent program on what makes a hero\, we will examine the dilemma of the bystander and take a close look at the famous assertion by Edmund Burke: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” \n \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANELISTS\nxxxxx \nDr. Victoria J. Barnett was Director of the Programs on Ethics\, Religion\, and the Holocaust at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum from 2004-2019. She also served as one of the general editors of the 17-volume Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works\, the complete English edition of Bonhoeffer’s writings published by Fortress Press. She has lectured and taught about the history of the Protestant churches in Nazi Germany and during the Holocaust. Her books include Bystanders: Conscience and Complicity during the Holocaust (2000) and For the Soul of the People: Protestant Protest against Hitler (1992). Her most recent book is “After Ten Years”: Dietrich Bonhoeffer for Our Times. \nAmos N. Guiora is Professor of Law at the S.J. Quinney College of Law\, the University of Utah and a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the Israel Defense Forces. He is actively involved in bystander legislation efforts in Utah and other states around the country. Guiora holds an A.B. in history from Kenyon College\, a J.D. from Case Western Reserve University School of Law\, and a Ph.D from Leiden University. He has published extensively both in the United States and Europe on issues related to national security\, limits of interrogation\, religion and terrorism\, the limits of power\, multiculturalism and human rights. He is the author of numerous books including The Crime of Complicity: The Bystander in the Holocaust (2017) and Armies of Enablers: Survivor Stories of Complicity and Betrayal in Sexual Assaults (2020). \nDr. Mordecai Paldiel headed the Righteous Among the Nations Department at Yad Vashem from 1982-2007.  His essay “Calling Myself Into Question: How the Bystander Becomes a Rescuer” was published in the Holocaust education journal Prism. His books include The Path of the Righteous\, Sheltering the Jews\, Saving the Jews\, Diplomat Heroes of the Holocaust\, Saving One’s Own: Jewish Rescuers During the Holocaust and The Righteous Among the Nations. He teaches at Stern College 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 as well as a street named for Raoul Wallenberg\, both in Jerusalem. He is a member of the B’nai Brith committee in Israel honoring Jewish rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program has ended.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/virtual-program-the-bystanders-choice/
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion
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SUMMARY:Virtual program: Curious George - Saved by Sousa Mendes!
DESCRIPTION:Author-illustrators Hans and Margret Rey fled Nazi-occupied France on handmade bicycles with the manuscript to the first Curious George book among their meager possessions. Thanks to a fortuitous encounter with Aristides de Sousa Mendes\, they were all saved. Meet Louise Borden\, author of The Journey That Saved Curious George\, and Sheila Abranches-Pierce\, granddaughter of Sousa Mendes. The program moderator will be Robert Jacobvitz.  This will be a fun program\, appropriate for all ages. \n \nxxxxx \nRAVE REVIEWS for The Journey that Saved Curious George: \n“A fine introduction to the period for young children\, a model of documentation\, and an exceptionally inviting and well-designed book.” —Horn Book \n“A stirring\, uplifting\, and elegantly packaged saga.” —Publishers Weekly \nAn American Library Association (ALA) Notable Book \nxxxxx \nWant to know more about about Sousa Mendes? See the film! \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS \n \nSheila Abranches-Pierce (left) is the granddaughter of the Holocaust rescuer Aristides de Sousa Mendes and his wife Angelina.  She is a former Board member of the Sousa Mendes Foundation and has been active in telling her grandfather’s story since the 1990s. Born and raised in the East Bay\, she spent 27 years working in the banking industry in New York before moving home to California to marry her high school sweetheart. Over the years\, she has enjoyed the privilege of representing the Sousa Mendes family at various events in the tri-state area\, Portugal\, France and California. Sheila now lives in San Ramon\, CA with her husband\, Darrell\, two step children\, Jordyn and Jalen\, and their family cat\, Raider. \n \nLouise Borden (right) is the highly regarded author of many books for young readers\, including The Journey That Saved Curious George and His Name Was Raoul Wallenberg\, both published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt\, as well as The Little Ships: The Heroic Rescue at Dunkirk in WW II and The Greatest Skating Race\, a fictional story about a Dutch boy helping others during the occupation of his country in WWII. Borden believes in the importance of teaching history to young readers in a direct and engaging way. She consulted on a major exhibition on the Reys’ escape and has spoken at schools\, libraries\, and museums across the country.xxxxx \nRobert Jacobvitz is a graduate of Yeshiva University’s Wurzweiler School of Social Work and holds an MSW in Community Social Work. For ten years he directed the Jewish Community Relations Council of the Greater East Bay\, and it was in this capacity in the 1980’s that he began championing the cause of Aristides de Sousa Mendes. In 2005 he received the Aristides de Sousa Mendes Humanitarian Medal from the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation. He wrote a seminal article on Aristides de Sousa Mendes that can be read at this link. \nxxxxx \nxxxxx \nPLEASE NOTE: The program is free\, but we are taking this opportunity to encourage donations to our project of interviewing survivors.  Donate $36 or more\, and receive an autographed copy of the lavishly illustrated and delightful book The Journey that Saved Curious George\, inscribed to the recipient of your choice.  A rare opportunity! \nxxxxx \nPLEASE NOTE: Registration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/virtual-program-curious-george/
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion,Lecture
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Something Beautiful Happened
DESCRIPTION:Emmy Award-winning writer\, producer\, and author Yvette Manessis Corporon scours the globe to track down the Jewish family that her Greek Orthodox grandmother saved from the Holocaust in 1944. But suddenly\, after a glorious reunion with the saved family\, her own family falls victim to antisemitism in the U.S. In Something Beautiful Happened: A Story of Survival and Courage in the Face of Evil\, the past and present come together in a nuanced\, heartfelt story about the power of faith\, the importance of kindness\, and the courage to stand up for what is right. \n \nxxxxxTo order the book Something Beautiful Happened\, click here. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANELISTS \n \nAuthor Yvette Manessis Corporon (right) is a Senior Producer with the syndicated entertainment television news show\, EXTRA. She has received three Emmy Awards\, several Emmy nominations\, a Silurian Award for Excellence in Journalism and the New York City Comptroller and City Council’s Award for Greek Heritage and Culture. Her earlier book\, When The Cypress Whispers (Harper\, 2014) was translated into fourteen languages and is an international bestseller. Her latest book Something Beautiful Happened has been translated into Hebrew and German and will soon become a documentary film titled Hope. \n \nInterviewer Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff (left) fled Nazi-occupied Europe from Kosice\, Slovakia\, as a small child in 1941\, via Lisbon\, Portugal. Miriam is an appointee to the Florida Education Commissioner’s Holocaust Task Force. She is the Founding Director of the University of Miami Holocaust Institute and is a frequent speaker on Holocaust education at conferences and workshops nationwide. In February 2019 she was given a Special Tribute by the Florida House of Representatives for her work on behalf of the Jewish Community of Florida. In October 2019\, she was honored in Pittsburgh\, PA with The Lifetime Achievement Award given by Classrooms Without Borders. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed. \nxxxxx
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/virtual-event-something-beautiful-happened/
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200510T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200510T150000
DTSTAMP:20260418T083037
CREATED:20200429T212659Z
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SUMMARY:Mother's Day Book Talk with Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff and Joan Arnay Halperin
DESCRIPTION:FREE EVENT — PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED \nYou’re invited to join Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff\, Holocaust educator and child refugee survivor\, for a Mother’s Day dialogue with Joan Arnay Halperin\, author of My Sister’s Eyes: A Family Chronicle of Rescue and Loss During World War II on the topics of love\, loss\, and survival.  Q&A to follow.  Please note that the time given is US Eastern Time. \n \n********* \nABOUT THE PANELISTS \n\nDr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff fled Nazi Europe\, Kosice\, Slovakia\, as a small child in 1941\, via Lisbon\, Portugal. As the Education Specialist for Holocaust Studies for Miami-Dade County Public Schools\, she is responsible for all staff development/teacher training on teaching the Holocaust for Miami Dade County Public Schools. Miriam is an appointee to the Florida Education Commissioner’s Holocaust Task Force. Miriam is the Founding Director of the University of Miami Holocaust Institute and the founder of the film series “Screening the Holocaust.” Miriam is a frequent speaker and presenter on Holocaust Education at conferences and workshops nationwide. She recently was chosen as one of the Outstanding Pioneer Women in Miami-Dade County for her work in Holocaust education. In October 2019\, she was honored in Pittsburgh PA with The Lifetime Achievement Award given by Classrooms Without Borders. \nhjkhk \nJoan Arnay Halperin\, daughter and granddaughter of Sousa Mendes visa recipients\, is a retired TESOL teacher in the New York City public schools.  As the author of My Sister’s Eyes she credits its origin to her participation in the Sousa Mendes Foundation’s “Journey on the Road to Freedom” in 2013. Subsequent to that life-changing tour\, Joan has presented her story at numerous Holocaust education workshops including that of “Echoes and Reflections\,” the educational arm of Yad Vashem. Kirkus Reviews calls My Sister’s Eyes “a thoroughly researched and intensely moving remembrance\,” and the book will soon be featured in the K-12 World War II section of the research resource\, GALE.com. Joan has served in various capacities in the Sousa Mendes Foundation and continues to serve on its Education Initiatives Committee. \n. \n \nasjdka;sdf;df \nPlease note:  Registration will close on Thursday\, May 7 at 10 p.m. US Eastern Time or when spaces are filled\, whichever is earlier\, and the video link for the discussion will be sent the following day. \n******* \nTo order the book (available as an e-book or printed book)\, please CLICK HERE.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/book-talk-with-dr-miriam-klein-kassenoff-and-joan-arnay-halperin/
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200311T123000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200311T140000
DTSTAMP:20260418T083037
CREATED:20200302T230457Z
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SUMMARY:Librarian Training Seminar on Long Island
DESCRIPTION:In this workshop for Holocaust educators and librarians\, Joan Arnay Halperin will be presenting her book\, My Sister’s Eyes\, dealing with how her family was saved during the war by Aristides de Sousa Mendes\, the Portuguese diplomat\, who permitted thousands of desperate refugees safe passage via France from the Nazis.  The role of Rescuers will be discussed. Who is considered a Righteous Among the Nations? Most importantly the difference individuals and communities can make when they believe in moral responsibility and right conduct.  Note:  This event is restricted to Long Island-based school librarians.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/teacher-training-seminar-on-long-island/
LOCATION:Nassau BOCES Robert E. Lupinskie Center\, 1 Merrick Avenue\, Westbury\, NY\, 11590\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion,Lecture,Luncheon
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181216T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181216T180000
DTSTAMP:20260418T083037
CREATED:20181201T183902Z
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SUMMARY:Escape to Life: exhibit and artist talk in New Rochelle\, NY
DESCRIPTION:Leah Rozenfeld Sills\, Vice-President of the Sousa Mendes Foundation\, invites you to \nEscape to Life\, an exhibit and artist talk with: \nGaia Starr\, ceramic artist and author of \nJourney Maps 1940\, a ceramic novel \nand \nJoan Arnay Halperin\, author of \nMy Sister’s Eyes:  A Family Chronicle of Rescue and Loss During World War II \nA benefit for the Sousa Mendes Foundation \nArtist talks at 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. \nCoffee and kosher desserts! \nDonations (of any amount) can be made at: \nwww.crowdrise.com/visastofreedom \nOr by check or cash in person. \nDonations are 100% tax-deductible. \nQuestions?  Call (877) 797-9759 or email:  olivia@sousamendesfoundation.org
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/escape-to-life-exhibit-and-artist-talk/
LOCATION:Chez Sills\, 125 Oxford Road\, New Rochelle\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Exhibition,Reception
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SUMMARY:Presentation and book signing by Joan Arnay Halperin in Merrick\, NY
DESCRIPTION:The realities of World War II catapult the Krakowiak family out of their charmed life and into an exodus across half the world.  Joan Arnay Halperin’s book My Sister’s Eyes tells the dramatic true story of her family’s rescue by Aristides de Sousa Mendes and subsequent semi-internment in a British evacuee camp on the island of Jamaica\, amounting to a Holocaust tale quite unlike any other.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/my-sisters-eyes/
LOCATION:Temple Beth Am\, 2377 Merrick Avenue\, Merrick\, NY\, 11566\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talk
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CREATED:20171208T062823Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180329T064641Z
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SUMMARY:Presentation and book signing by Joan Arnay Halperin in Leonia\, NJ
DESCRIPTION:The realities of World War II catapult the Krakowiak family out of their charmed life and into an exodus across half the world.  Joan Arnay Halperin’s book My Sister’s Eyes tells the dramatic true story of her family’s rescue by Aristides de Sousa Mendes and subsequent semi-internment in a British evacuee camp on the island of Jamaica\, amounting to a Holocaust tale quite unlike any other.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/presentation-and-book-signing-by-joan-arnay-halperin/
LOCATION:Congregation Adas Emuno\, 254 Broad Avenue \, Leonia\, NJ\, 07605\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talk
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