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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260726
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SUMMARY:A Force for Good — The Rescue Action of Gisela Warburg
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nA Force For Good is the biography of the heroic life of Gisela Warburg\, a courageous young German Jewish woman and member of the celebrated Warburg family\, who leveraged her wealth and family connections to save countless children from annihilation at the hands of the Nazis\, also working with renowned personalities such as Henrietta Szold and Chaim Weizmann. This compelling story is told through a treasure trove of letters and documents carefully preserved by Gisela and recently discovered by her daughter\, Anita Robboy\, the book’s author. \n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ Sunday\, July 26 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished speakers.  \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nAnita Wyzanski Robboy is both a noted author and a partner in the Boston law firm of Prince Lobel & Tye\, LLC. She is currently a Visiting Scholar and Research Associate at Brandeis University.  She is the daughter of the Holocaust rescuer Gisela Warburg and the author of her poignant biography that showcases Gisela’s coming of age story and her life-saving actions. Her hope is that readers will be inspired by Gisela’s remarkable life\, her selfless choices\, and her determination to save the lives of countless others. \n \nJoan Goodman (right)\, who will be dialogue with Anita Wyzanski Robboy\, is the Director of Lay Leadership at The Jewish Theological Seminary and is in her 20th year as a member of its Institutional Advancement team. Previously she was director of development at the Academy of Jewish Religion\, New York. In her first career\, she was a television news anchor/reporter at local network affiliates in Hartford\, Connecticut and her hometown of Springfield\, Massachusetts\, and she continues to do voice-over projects. She is a graduate of Smith College. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/a-force-for-good/
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260614
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260615
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SUMMARY:Partisan Women Heroes
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nSee the award-winning film Four Winters\, about partisan heroes of World War II\, and then tune into the discussion\, which will focus on the stories of partisan women heroes such as Faye Schulman\, Chaya Palevsky\, Gertrude Boyarski and others. \n \nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ June 12-15 watch the film Four Winters on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register.\n⇒ Sunday\, June 14 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\n \nJulia Mintz\, right\, is an award-winning filmmaker whose work focuses on narratives of bravery and resistance against unimaginable odds. She has been on the producing teams for films which have been shortlisted for the Academy Awards\, have premiered at Cannes\, Sundance and TriBeCa\, and won Emmy\, Peabody and festival awards. Her films can be seen on HBO\, PBS\, American Masters\, Netflix\, Amazon\, and are shown on college campuses across the country. She has taught seminars and workshops worldwide\, and has held a faculty position at LIU in NYC. \nDorothy Boyarski Halperin\, left\, is the daughter of the Partisan hero Gertrude Boyarski whose story is highlighted in the award-winning documentary film Four Winters. She grew up in the East New York section of Brooklyn with her Holocaust survivor parents and graduated from Queens College with a BA in education. She worked in the garment industry and later\, with her husband\, started an Independent Manufacturer’s Rep Company in the bicycle Industry.  She is proud to share her mother’s heroic story of resistance and survival. \n \nDr. Jud Newborn was the Founding Historian of New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage and is co-author of the acclaimed Sophie Scholl and the White Rose. He was awarded his PhD with Distinction by the University of Chicago following three years of adventurous fieldwork\, including hunting down former SS officers and working undercover during communist martial law in Poland. He was honored with the Anne Frank Center’s “Spirit of Anne Frank Award” and is the two-time Emmy Award-winning Producer of Special Programs for Long Island’s Cinema Arts Centre. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/partisan-women-heroes/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260531
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260601
DTSTAMP:20260823T182554
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SUMMARY:"I Seek a Kind Person" — Advertising and the Kindertransport Rescue Operation
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nJulian Borger‘s family memoir I Seek a Kind Person — highlighted by The New York Times as one of the 100 must-read books of the year — is a gripping story of how the author’s Austrian Jewish father and other children were rescued through the placement of advertisements in British newspapers. \n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ Sunday\, May 31 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\n \nJulian Borger is The Guardian‘s senior international correspondent based in London. He served as The Guardian‘s Middle East correspondent in Jerusalem and in Washington as bureau chief and then global affairs editor.  He was part of the Guardian team that won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of the Snowden files. He also won the 2016 One World Media press award for Syria’s Truth Smugglers\, about the war crimes of the Assad regime. He has written two books: The Butcher’s Trail (2016) about the manhunt for Balkan war crimes\, and I Seek A Kind Person (2024) about Jewish children saved from the Nazis with the help of newspaper ads. \nEric Schlosser is an investigative journalist and best-selling author who will be in dialogue with Julian Borger. He is the author of Fast Food Nation\, Reefer Madness\, and\, most recently\, Command and Control\, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He has written for Rolling Stone\, The Atlantic\, and The New Yorker\, among others\, and has received a number of journalism honors\, including a National Magazine Award. Schlosser previously worked as a playwright for an independent film company. Two of his plays\, Americans (2003) and We the People (2007)\, have been produced in renowned London theaters. \nMelissa Hacker\, moderator\, is the Executive Director of the Kindertransport Association. She is a filmmaker whose documentary My Knees Were Jumping; Remembering the Kindertransports was short-listed for an Academy Award nomination and shown worldwide. A sought-after speaker\, she has consulted on the exhibits Rescuing Children on the Brink of War at the Center for Jewish History in New York and the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Without a Home: Kindertransports from Vienna at the Vienna Jewish Museum. She is the editor of two Academy Award nominated documentary films and serves on the Executive Committee and Governing Board of the World Federation of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Descendants. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed. \nxxxxx \nThis program is co-sponsored by the Kindertransport Association.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/i-seek-a-kind-person/
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion,Lecture
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260517
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260518
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SUMMARY:The Rescue of Sigmund Freud
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nThe film Outsider. Freud. follows Sigmund Freud\, the founder of psychoanalysis\, from his earliest experiences with antisemitism\, through his meteoric career\, and ending with his escape after the Anschluss from Vienna to London\, where he spent the final months of his life. \n \nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ May 15-18 watch the film Outsider. Freud. on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register.\n⇒ May 17 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nYair Qedar is an Israeli filmmaker and the director of Outsider. Freud. His project “The Hebrews” chronicles the lives of Jewish and Israeli figures of the modern Hebrew and Jewish literary and intellectual canon. His 19 feature-length documentaries have all premiered at film festivals and have won over 35 prizes. He is also a leading LGBTQ activist\, who created several queer films and the first Israeli LGBTQ newspaper. Since the early nineties\, he has been involved in journalistic writing and editing. He has written for Schocken\, Haaretz\, and Davar and served as editor and deputy editor of the travel magazine Masa Acher. He won the Allied Prize for World Jewish Press and the European Union Award for Journalistic Reporting. \n \nDaniela Finzi is the Research Director of the Sigmund Freud Foundation and appears in the film\, Outsider. Freud. She has curated numerous exhibitions on Freud and psychoanalytical issues at the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna. Her research focuses on the history of psychoanalysis\, exile studies and gender studies. Her most recent publications include the anthologies IT HURTS! Violence against Women in Art and Psychoanalysis (De Gruyter\, 2025) and Freud and the Émigré. Austrian Émigrés\, Exiles and the Legacy of Psychoanalysis in Britain\, 1930s-1970s (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2020\, ed. with Elane Shapira). \n \nAndrew Nagorski is an award-winning journalist and author who spent more than three decades as a foreign correspondent and editor for Newsweek. He served as the magazine’s bureau chief in Hong Kong\, Rome\, Bonn\, Berlin\, Warsaw\, and Moscow. In 1982\, he gained international notoriety when the Soviet government\, angry about his enterprising reporting\, expelled him from the country. He is the author of eight books\, including Saving Freud: The Rescuers Who Brought Him to Freedom; Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power; and The Nazi Hunters. He is also chairman of the board of the Polish-American Freedom Foundation\, and a member of the board of the Israel Council on Foreign Relations. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/the-rescue-of-sigmund-freud/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260426
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260427
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SUMMARY:Herzl Remembered — "If you will it\, it is no dream!"
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nTheodor Herzl was a lawyer\, journalist\, playwright\, and political activist. He witnessed the rise in antisemitism in the late 19th century and was inspired to build a safe haven for the Jewish community. The new documentary Theodor Herzl: The Man Behind Israel explores Herzl’s legacy\, the formation of the State of Israel and past and ongoing political conflicts. \n \nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ April 24-27 watch the film Theodor Herzl: The Man Behind Israel on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register.\n⇒ Sunday\, April 26 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\n \nSir Bernard Zissman\, right\, has enjoyed a busy political and business career\, serving as a senior member of the Birmingham\, UK City Council and becoming Lord Mayor of the City. He has written two books\, Knight Out with Chamberlain and Herzl’s Journey. It is the latter book that inspired the making of the documentary film Theodor Herzl: The Man Behind Israel\, which premiered at BAFTA London and has played to sold-out audiences. He has served in many different roles including Jewish community leadership\, was in the British army for two years and holds two Honorary University degrees. He was knighted by HM Queen Elizabeth II. \n \nDavid Matlow\, left\, practices law at Goodmans LLP in Toronto. He owns the world’s largest collection of Theodor Herzl memorabilia and his Herzl Project is designed to inform people about Herzl’s work to inspire them to work to complete Herzl’s dream. He is featured in the film Theodor Herzl: The Man Behind Israel. He is also the subject of the film My Herzl\, which was shown by the Sousa Mendes Foundation in 2021. In his weekly “Treasure Trove” column in the Canadian Jewish News\, he showcases one item from his collection and contextualizes it to the events of the day. His website is: www.herzlcollection.com \n \nDr. Shulamit Reinharz is the Jacob Potofsky Professor Emerita of Sociology at Brandeis University. While at Brandeis\, she created a graduate program in Women’s Studies as well as the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute for the study of the intersection between Jews and gender. She was born in Amsterdam and grew up in the United States with intermittent stays in Israel. She is the author or editor of sixteen books\, including the recent 100 Jewish Brides: Stories from Around the World and Hiding in Holland: A Resistance Memoir. She is a frequent speaker or moderator for the Sousa Mendes Foundation’s programs. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/theodor-herzl/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260412
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260413
DTSTAMP:20260823T182554
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SUMMARY:Raoul Wallenberg Reconsidered
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nRaoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction tells the heroic story of Raoul Wallenberg\, a Swedish diplomat responsible for saving thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust by issuing them Swedish protective documents\, opening protected safe houses\, and more. The big mystery of what happened to Wallenberg following his arrest in 1945 by the Soviet liberators of Hungary is at the center of the film. \n \nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ April 10-13 watch the film Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register.\n⇒ Sunday\, April 12 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\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\, and Saving One’s Own. He serves on the B’nai B’rith Commission to honor Jewish rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. He is also on the Board of the Sousa Mendes Foundation and\, thanks to his efforts\, there is now a square named for Aristides de Sousa Mendes in Jerusalem. He provided the list of 60 diplomat-rescuers honored by the US Congress in 2024 in the Forgotten Heroes of the Holocaust Congressional Gold Medal Act. \n \nPatti Askwith Kenner\, right\, is a business leader\, philanthropist and film producer whose film credits include Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction\, Ahead of Time\, Elie Wiesel\, Soul on Fire\, Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles and more. She graduated with a degree in French from Carnegie Mellon University and received her Master’s degree in Early Childhood Education from Columbia University Teachers College. She serves on the Boards of the Museum of Jewish Heritage\, the Defiant Requiem Foundation\, Selfhelp Foundation\, Educational Alliance\, Carnegie Mellon University\, and the American Heart Association and is co-chair of the Community Initiative on Holocaust Survivors at UJA. \nDr. Katrina Lantos Swett\, left\, serves as President of the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice. She is the daughter of the late Congressman Tom Lantos\, who was rescued by Raoul Wallenberg\, and was the only Holocaust survivor ever elected to the US Congress. She serves on the Advisory Board of UN Watch\, the annual Anne Frank Award and Lecture\, the Warren B. Rudman Center for Justice\, Leadership and Public Policy\, and sits on the Board of Trustees of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. She teaches courses on human rights and American foreign policy at Tufts University. \n \nAlex Ruthizer\, right\, is a documentary film producer who started the Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction project after years of grassroots efforts to gain public attention for Raoul’s story. He has worked in the asset management and crypto industries (Allianz\, National Bank of Canada\, Blockpoint)\, Media (The Economist) and gaming. He is a University of Michigan and NYU Stern alum. His film career began with a video production studio that specialized in creating high-quality videos for businesses and independent artists; then he transitioned into film and movie production. He founded a production house that focuses on documentaries and independent films. \n \nBrian Mait\, left\, is an Emmy Award-winning and Cannes Lions shortlisted director\, writer and producer with over two decades of experience in the entertainment industry. As showrunner for NBC Universal’s travel and lifestyle show “1st Look\,” he won a Daytime Emmy Award for Achievement in Directing and was nominated on six other occasions for producing and directing. Previously\, he produced hundreds of hours of content ranging from Super Bowls and the US Open to A&E’s “Biography\,” in addition to countless commercials and music videos. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/raoul-wallenberg-reconsidered/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260329
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260330
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SUMMARY:Resisting Nazism
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nNazism has always faced resistance: from the German artists who caricatured the Nazis in the 1920s\, or the man who infiltrated the SS to try and expose the Holocaust in the 1940s\, or the people who uncovered former Nazis as part of a groundbreaking documentary in the 1970s. Resisting Nazism is the first book to connect such stories\, painting a vivid picture of resistance to hatred and extremism across the generations. \n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ Sunday\, March 29 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\n \nLuke Berryman is the Founder of The Ninth Candle\, a nonprofit organization that works with schools across the United States to improve Holocaust education. He holds undergraduate\, master’s\, and doctoral degrees from the University of Oxford\, Boston University\, and King’s College London\, respectively. His Ph.D. thesis was on the use of classical music in Nazi propaganda. He has since written about the Holocaust and antisemitism for USA Today\, The Chicago Tribune\, The Guardian\, and other newspapers\, and for pedagogy journals including Education Week and Chalkbeat. Resisting Nazism is his first book. It was published by Bloomsbury in January 2026. \n \nBrooke Randel is a writer\, editor and associate creative director based in Chicago. She is the author of Also Here: Love\, Literacy\, and the Legacy of the Holocaust. Her writing has been published in Hippocampus\, Hypertext Magazine\, Jewish Fiction\, Split Lip Magazine\, and elsewhere. She is the former prose editor of Chestnut Review. The granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor\, she writes on issues of memory\, trauma\, family and history and participates in events of The Ninth Candle. Find more of her work at brookerandel.com. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/resisting-nazism/
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion
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SUMMARY:Khaled — The Tunisian Schindler
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nKhaled is the story of Khaled Abdul Wahab\, an Arab Muslim photographer who saved twenty-four Jews during the Nazi occupation of Tunisia. Learn about this remarkable man and his story and meet the son of one of the people that he saved.\n \nxxxxx \nPREVIEW A CLIP FROM THE FILM\n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ March 13-16\, watch the film Khaled on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, March 15 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 \nSol Weisel\, right\, was born in Mahdia\, Tunisia\, and is the son of Eva Boukris who was sheltered and protected by Khaled Abdul Wahab from German soldiers during the occupation of Tunisia in World War II. His parents married in January 1947 in Tunisia. His father\, Ted Weisel\, was from an Ashkenazi family from Czechoslovakia\, and his mother was from a Sephardic family that spoke French\, Italian and Arabic. This multicultural Jewish family immigrated to America in 1951 and moved to Los Angeles. A graduate of UCLA\, he went on to attend law school for a year before deciding he would follow his ambition to become a producer in Hollywood. His career in the entertainment industry spanned over 35 years. \n\nDr. Mordecai Paldiel\, left\, 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\, and Saving One’s Own. He serves on the B’nai B’rith Commission to honor Jewish rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. He is also on the Board of the Sousa Mendes Foundation and\, thanks to his efforts\, there is now a square named for Aristides de Sousa Mendes in Jerusalem. He provided the list of 60 diplomat-rescuers honored by the US Congress in 2024 in the Forgotten Heroes of the Holocaust Congressional Gold Medal Act. \n \nEmmanuel Berrebi\, right\, is a French-Israeli filmmaker and the producer of Khaled (2022)\, the compelling documentary that brings to light the heroic story of Khaled Abdul Wahab. With a background in both film production and intercultural dialogue\, Berrebi is committed to telling stories that challenge conventional historical narratives and foster greater understanding between communities. Through Khaled\, he shines a spotlight on an act of Muslim-Jewish solidarity during one of history’s darkest chapters\, contributing to a growing body of work that explores Holocaust rescue stories beyond Europe. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/khaled/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260301
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260302
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SUMMARY:Henrietta Szold — Her Mission Was Saving Lives
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nHenrietta Szold is among the most influential American Jewish women who ever lived. She founded Hadassah in 1912\, a Jewish women’s service organization\, that inspired hundreds of thousands of Jewish women to invest their energies in a cause that transcended their own personal lives. She also helped organize Youth Aliyah\, which successfully rescued thousands of Jewish children from Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe during the 1930s and transported them to Palestine. The new film\, Labors of Love\, tells her inspiring story. \n \nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ Friday\, February 27 – Monday\, March 2\, watch the film Labors of Love — The Life and Legacy of Henrietta Szold on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, March 1 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nAbby Ginzberg\, right\, is the filmmaker of Labors of Love — The Life and Legacy of Henrietta Szold. She is a Peabody award-winning director who has been producing compelling documentaries about social justice for over 30 years. Her film And Then They Came for Us about the connection between the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II and Trump’s Muslim travel ban\, won a Silver Gavel Award and played in major festivals across the country. Her film Agents of Change about the 1960’s struggle for black and ethnic studies on college campuses premiered at the Pan African Film Festival\, where it won the Jury and the Audience Awards for Best Feature Documentary. She holds a BA from Cornell University and a JD from Hastings College of the Law. \nDr. Shulamit Reinharz\, left\, is the Jacob Potofsky Professor Emerita of Sociology at Brandeis University. While at Brandeis\, she created a graduate program in Women’s Studies as well as the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute for the study of the intersection between Jews and gender. She was born in Amsterdam and grew up in the United States with intermittent stays in Israel. She is the author or editor of sixteen books\, including the recent 100 Jewish Brides: Stories from Around the World and Hiding in Holland: A Resistance Memoir. She is interviewed as an expert in the film Labors of Love — The Life and Legacy of Henrietta Szold. \nDeborah Wiskind\, right\, is a Hadassah National Vice-President. Since finishing her presidency in Hadassah Westchester\, she has held various portfolios in the Organization Division\, most recently as chair of the Leadership Training and Development Department and served on the National Board since 2021. She earned her undergraduate degree in Art and Art History and an MFA in painting. She is the founder of DeeJ Design\, a distributor of promotional products for individuals\, business\, and non-profit organizations. \n\nxxxxx \n\nRegistration for this program is closed. \nxxxxx \nThis program is co-sponsored by Hadassah.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/henrietta-szold/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Operation Solomon — The Rescue of Ethiopia's Jews
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nYerusalem is an Israeli documentary that tells the story of the Ethiopian “Beta Israel” Jewish community and their journey to Israel\, focusing on the “Operation Solomon” and “Operation Moses” airlifts of the 1980s and 1990s. The film explores the challenges and discrimination faced by Ethiopian Jews in Israel\, particularly regarding their acceptance and integration into Israeli society\, despite their long history of Jewish observance.\n \nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ February 20-23\, watch the film Yerusalem on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, February 22 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\nMehereta Baruch-Ron\, left\, is a trailblazing Ethiopian-Israeli politician\, activist\, and public speaker who has made a significant impact on Israeli civic life and representation. Rising from a childhood marked by adversity — including a harrowing journey on foot from Ethiopia to Israel during Operation Moses — she went on to become the first woman of Ethiopian descent elected to the Tel Aviv-Yafo City Council. She later made history again as the city’s Deputy Mayor\, championing issues of social justice\, education\, and civil rights. A powerful advocate for diversity\, inclusion\, and women’s empowerment\, she is widely recognized for her work in bridging communities and creating equal opportunities for underrepresented populations. \n\n\n\n\nLevi Zini\, right\, the director of Yerusalem\, is a preeminent figure in Israeli documentary filmmaking\, boasting over four decades of creating independent films and TV documentaries. From 2009-13 he was the Chief Commissioner of Israel’s leading documentary channel\, Channel 8. A recipient of numerous accolades from both local and international festivals\, he has twice been honored with Israel’s Minister of Education Award for Documentary Filmmaking. He is an active member of the Israeli documentary community\, serving on the board of the Israeli Documentary Forum. He is also the founder and Art Director of the Tel Aviv-based Doc. Films production house.\n\nDr. Shmuel Legesse\, left\, is an international educator\, community activist\, and diplomacy expert. A Black African Jew from Ethiopia’s ancient Jewish community\, he has devoted his career to strengthening Jewish unity\, advancing Zionism\, and fostering global dialogue. He has published widely on Middle Eastern affairs\, Zionism\, and Jewish identity\, with a special emphasis on the contributions and struggles of Ethiopian Jews. His op-eds and essays emphasize that Judaism is not defined by race or geography but by covenant\, faith\, and shared destiny. He lives in Jerusalem and is the author of the forthcoming Moral Diplomacy for a Broken World: Inspired by the Vision of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.\n\n\nRichard Hurowitz\, right\, who will moderate\, is a writer\, investor\, and the publisher of The Octavian Report\, the quarterly magazine of ideas. He is the author of In the Garden of the Righteous (HarperCollins) on Holocaust rescue. 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. \n\n\n\n\nxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/the-rescue-of-ethiopias-jews/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Hannah Arendt and the Banality of Evil
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nHannah Arendt came of age in Germany as Hitler rose to power\, before escaping to the United States as a Jewish refugee. Through her unflinching capacity to demand attention to facts and reality\, Arendt made groundbreaking insights into totalitarianism\, the refugee crisis and the human condition. She was a famous witness to the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem.\n\n \n\nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ February 7 at 8pm until February 9 at 8pm (48 hours)\, watch the film Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, February 8 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nxxxxx \nDr. Mordecai Paldiel\, left\, 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\, and Saving One’s Own. He serves on the B’nai B’rith Commission to honor Jewish rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. He is also on the Board of the Sousa Mendes Foundation and\, thanks to his efforts\, there is now a square named for Aristides de Sousa Mendes in Jerusalem. He provided the list of 60 diplomat-rescuers honored by the US Congress in 2024 in the Forgotten Heroes of the Holocaust Congressional Gold Medal Act. \n\n \nJeff Bieber\, right\, focuses on films and social impact campaigns with emphasis on the transformation of America’s identity through The Pilgrims (2015)\, The Jewish Americans (6-hours\, 2008)\, and more. Bieber has received two national EMMY Awards\, a du Pont-Columbia Award\, and three Peabody Awards. As Executive Producer of Washington Week on PBS\, Jeff produced nightly coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks\, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq\, and covered the Bush\, Obama\, Trump\, and Biden presidencies. Jeff Bieber Productions was created in 2022. Projects include Hannah Arendt – Facing Tyranny (2025) and Dante\, a 4-hour series directed by Ric Burns (April 2024). \n\nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/hannah-arendt-and-the-banality-of-evil/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion in Conjunction with the Exhibition "Between Life and Death: Stories of Rescue During the Holocaust"
DESCRIPTION:6:00-8:30 PM NEW YORK\nThis free panel discussion\, with a reception\, held at the Center for Jewish History\, accompanies the exhibition Between Life and Death: Stories of Rescue during the Holocaust\, on view at the United Nations from January 15 to February 20\, 2026. The discussion will focus on acts of rescue\, individual moral choices\, and the legacy of human solidarity during one of the darkest periods in history.\n\n\nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ 6:00 pm US Eastern Time\, please join us in person for a reception of light hors d’oeuvres sponsored by the Sousa Mendes Foundation at the Center for Jewish History\, 15 West 16th Street\, New York. We look forward to meeting you! \n⇒ 7:00-8:30 pm US Eastern Time\, panel discussion. Please note that the Zoom livestream will also begin at 7:00 p.m. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nDr. Mordecai Paldiel headed the Righteous Among the Nations Department at Yad Vashem from 1982-2007 and is now on the Board of the Sousa Mendes Foundation. His books include Remembrance and Meaning: Dialogues and Thoughts on the Significance of Holocaust Rescuers; The Path of the Righteous: Gentile Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust; Sheltering the Jews: Stories of Holocaust Rescuers; Churches and the Holocaust: Unholy Teaching\, Good Samaritans and Reconciliation; Whosoever Saves One Life: The Uniqueness of the Righteous Among the Nations; Saving the Jews: Amazing Stories of Men and Women Who Defied the Final Solution; Diplomat Heroes of the Holocaust; German Rescuers of Jews: Individuals versus the Nazi System; Polish Rescuers of Jews: Selected Stories of Amazing Acts of Goodness; Poland\, the Jews and the Holocaust: Promised Beginnings and Troubled Past; Saving One’s Own: Jewish Rescuers During the Holocaust and Righteous or Not: The Honoring of Rescuers of Jews. He serves on the B’nai B’rith Commission to honor Jewish rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. Thanks to his efforts\, there is now a square named for Aristides de Sousa Mendes in Jerusalem. He provided the list of 60 diplomat-rescuers honored by the US Congress in 2024 in the Forgotten Heroes of the Holocaust Congressional Gold Medal Act. \n \nElżbieta Ficowska  was born in the Warsaw ghetto in 1942 to Henia and Jossel Koppel. She survived because she was smuggled to the “Aryan side” and was hid from Germans by Stanisława Bussold\, a 56-year-old midwife and member of the underground who helped Jews. The only thing left from her Jewish parents is a little silver spoon bearing the girl’s name and birth date. Her story is among those presented in the travelling exhibition Between Life and Death. For many years\, she has been active in the Association of Children of the Holocaust\, sharing her personal testimony of rescue and remembrance. \nJay Winter\, left\, is the Charles J. Stille Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University and a leading scholar of 20th-century European history. A specialist on World War I\, he has profoundly influenced the study of memory\, mourning\, and the cultural consequences of modern conflict. He is the author of numerous seminal works\, including Sites of Memory\, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History (1995)\, The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century (1996)\, René Cassin and Human Rights (2013)\, The Cultural History of War in the Twentieth Century and After (2022)\, and most recently The Day the Great War Ended\, 24 July 1923: The Civilianization of War (2022). He holds honorary degrees from the universities of Graz\, Leuven\, and Paris. \n \nDaniel Blatman\, right\, is the Max and Rita Haber Professor Emeritus of Contemporary Jewry and Holocaust Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He previously served as director of the University’s Institute of Contemporary Jewry and of the Center for the Study of the History and Culture of Polish Jewry. His research focuses on twentieth-century Polish Jewry\, the Jewish labor movement in Eastern Europe\, the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto\, Polish–Jewish relations during the Holocaust and its aftermath\, and Nazi extermination policy. Among his major publications are For Our Freedom and Yours: The Jewish Labor Bund in Poland\, 1939-1945; Reportage from the Ghetto: The Jewish Underground Press in the Warsaw Ghetto; The Death Marches: The Final Phase of Nazi Genocide; and Conflicting Histories and Coexistence: New Perspectives on the Jewish-Polish Encounters. He is the recipient of the Jacob Buchman Memorial Prize\, the Yad Vashem International Prize in Holocaust Studies\, and was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. \n \nJayashri Wyatt\, who will moderate\, is the Chief of Education Outreach\, in the UN Department of Global Communications. She is a seasoned communications professional with a wealth of experience in the United Nations System producing high-level events\, advocacy campaigns\, and films for the Department of Global Communications\, UNICEF\, and the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). She also has nearly a decade of experience as an educator championing women’s empowerment and gender equality. \nxxxxx\nRegister to join us in person or via ZOOM. Click on the link below and follow instructions. \n \n\nxxxxx \nThis event is co-sponsored by the United Nations Outreach Programme on the Holocaust; the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity; the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and the Center for Jewish History.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/rescue-panel/
LOCATION:Center for Jewish History\, 15 W 16th Street\,  New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Lecture,Reception
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SUMMARY:Franceska Mann — Ballerina and Holocaust Hero
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nFranceska Mann was a Polish Jewish ballet dancer who killed a Nazi guard at Auschwitz and became an instant legend. Commanded to undress on her way to the gas chamber\, she performed a striptease dance for the Nazi guard\, seized his gun\, and shot him dead. Her brazen act inspired an uprising among other prisoners. The film Francesca\, directed by Lina Chaplin\, tells her inspiring story.\n\n \n\nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ January 23-26\, watch the film Francesca on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, January 25 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\nDaniela Reiss is the producer of the Israeli documentary film\, Francesca. She has collaborated with some of Israel’s most respected documentary directors\, including Lina Chaplin\, Dror Moreh\, Duki Dror\, and others. Her production credits include In Secret\, Underground Ballet\, Eighty and Counting\, and Voices from the Booth. As an archival researcher\, she has contributed to critically acclaimed and internationally recognized films and series\, including The Gatekeepers and The Human Factor (Dror Moreh)\, Lebanon and The Mossad series. Her meticulous approach to sourcing historical material has helped shape powerful narratives across a wide range of subjects\, from Israeli diplomacy and security to dance\, economy\, and identity. \n \nDr. Mordecai Paldiel\, left\, 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 and Righteous or Not: The Honoring of Rescuers of Jews. He serves on the B’nai B’rith Commission to honor Jewish rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. He is also on the Board of the Sousa Mendes Foundation and\, he provided the list of 60 diplomat-rescuers honored by the US Congress in 2024 in the Forgotten Heroes of the Holocaust Congressional Gold Medal Act. \n \nMatan Shefi\, right\, was born in Israel and now lives in Warsaw\, Poland\, where he has worked since 2013 at the Jewish Historical Institute in the field of Jewish history and genealogy. He worked on the film Francesca\, conducting research on Franceska Mann in Polish archives. He is passionate about better understanding Jewish life in Poland — now and then — for his own family and many others. He has also worked on other documentary film and book projects including Who’s afraid of Alice Miller (Switzerland\, 2020) and Teraz 43. – Finding the Warsaw Landscape of Today in Wartime Pictures (Poland\, 2018). \n\n \nMariana Abrantes\, who will moderate\, is a Board member and the Portugal representative of the Sousa Mendes Foundation. Coming from a village in central Portugal\, she studied Economics at UC-Berkeley and earned an MA from Princeton University. After training and working in Chase Manhattan Bank\, she returned to Portugal\, where she worked at the European Investment Bank. She also served in the Portuguese government’s Ministries of Transport and Health\, and on the Boards of international investment funds and the Fulbright Commission Portugal.  She is a dual Portuguese-US citizen. \n\nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/franceska-mann-ballerina-and-holocaust-hero/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Lioness — Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nGolda’s War Diaries explores the secrets revealed in newly declassified files concerning Prime Minister Golda Meir’s time in office\, and particularly her handling of the Yom Kippur War. The result is an intimate portrait of a leader in crisis yet very much in charge. \n \n\nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ January 16-19\, watch the film Golda’s War Diaries on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, January 18 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nxxxxx \nFrancine Klagsbrun\, left\, is a celebrated author whose book\, Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel\, won the National Jewish Book Award 2017 Book of the Year prize. Her most recent book\, Henrietta Szold: Hadassah and the Zionist Dream\, received the Natan Notable Book Award for 2024. She has been a regular columnist for The Jewish Week and Moment magazine\, and is on the editorial boards of Lilith and Hadassah magazines. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times\, The Boston Globe\, Newsweek and Ms. magazine. Klagsbrun holds an honorary doctorate degree from the Jewish Theological Seminary. She lives in New York City. \n \nDr. Shulamit Reinharz\, right\, moderator\, is the Jacob Potofsky Professor Emerita of Sociology at Brandeis University. At Brandeis she created a graduate program in Women’s Studies and the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute for the study of the intersection between Jews and gender. She was born in Amsterdam and grew up in the United States with intermittent stays in Israel. She is the author or editor of sixteen books\, including the recent 100 Jewish Brides: Stories from Around the World and Hiding in Holland: A Resistance Memoir. She has participated in numerous programs of the Sousa Mendes Foundation. \n \nAnnette Miller\, left\, is an acclaimed stage and film actress who has wowed audiences in roles from Golda Meir to Maria Callas. She has appeared on Broadway and has been awarded two Elliot Norton awards\, including a Special Citation in 2024 for her body of work and her sold-out reprisal of Golda’s Balcony at Shakespeare & Company and at Boston’s Emerson Paramount Center. She received the 2024 Boston Theater Critics Association Elliot Norton Award Special Citation for a legacy of defining performances of strong women. She received her BA and BFA from Brandeis University and is a resident Scholar at Brandeis University’s Women’s Studies Research Center. \nDr. Jud Newborn\, guest host\, was the Founding Historian of New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage and is co-author of the acclaimed Sophie Scholl and the White Rose. He was awarded his PhD with Distinction by the University of Chicago following three years of adventurous fieldwork as a Fulbright and Woodrow Wilson National Fellow\, including hunting down former SS officers and working undercover during communist martial law in Poland. He was honored with the Anne Frank Center’s “Spirit of Anne Frank Award” and is the two-time Emmy Award-winning Producer of Special Programs for Long Island’s Cinema Arts Centre. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/lioness-golda-meir-and-the-nation-of-israel/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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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:Aristides
DESCRIPTION:BOOK LAUNCH EVENT!\n11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nA new children’s book about our hero! Author Elizabeth Brown and artist Melissa Castrillón have created a delightful new book about Aristides de Sousa Mendes for young readers titled The World Entire — A True Story of an Extraordinary World War II Rescue. \n \nxxxxx \nTo order the book\, click here.\nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ Sunday\, November 16 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\nElizabeth Brown is a children’s book author\, writer\, film producer\, and college teacher. She is the author of Dancing Through Fields of Color: The Story of Helen Frankenthaler (Abrams) and Like a Diamond in the Sky: Jane Taylor’s Beloved Poem of Wonder and the Stars (Bloomsbury). She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College as well as a Post-MFA Certificate in the Teaching of Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles. She is also a graduate of the Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University. \nMelissa Castrillón is an English and Colombian illustrator based in the south east of England. She has illustrated more 12 picture books\, written three and her books have been translated into more than 20 languages around the world. In 2019 she was awarded the Gold medal by the Society of illustrators in New York for her wordless book\, The Balcony. That same year she was asked to re-imagine the covers for Philip Pullman’s HIS DARK MATERIALS series. In between book projects Melissa spends time designing screen prints & Riso prints. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/aristides/
CATEGORIES:Book signing,Book Talk,Discussion
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SUMMARY:Elie Wiesel — Soul on Fire
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nTold largely through his own words and eloquent voice\, Elie Wiesel — Soul on Fire seeks to penetrate to the heart of the known and unknown Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) — his passions\, his conflicts and his legacy as one of the most public survivors of the trauma of the Holocaust. With unique access to personal archives\, original interviews and employing hand-painted animation\, the film illuminates Wiesel’s biography as a survivor\, writer\, teacher and public figure. \n \nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n\n \n\nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ October 31-November 3\, watch the film Elie Wiesel — Soul on Fire on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, November 2 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\n  \n \nIngrid Anderson\, who was a student of Elie Wiesel\, is the Associate Director of the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies at Boston University. She is a scholar of Jewish Studies specializing in modern and contemporary Jewish theology\, philosophy\, and political thought\, and she teaches courses on images of Jewish masculinity and post-Holocaust ethics. She holds a Master’s degree in Jewish Studies and a doctoral degree in Religious Studies from Boston University\, in addition to a bachelor’s degree in Literature and Women’s Studies. \nOren Rudavsky\, left\, is the writer\, director and producer of Elie Wiesel — Soul on Fire. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and several National Endowment for the Humanities and National Endowment for the Arts grants. His films include Hiding and Seeking\, The Ruins of Lifta\, Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People and others. His A Life Apart: Hasidism in America was short-listed for the Academy Awards and broadcast on PBS. He was the producer of forty permanent film installations in the Russian Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow that opened in 2013. \nDr. Jud Newborn\, right\, was the Founding Historian of New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage and is co-author of the acclaimed Sophie Scholl and the White Rose. A dramatic multimedia lecturer\, he has spoken throughout North America\, at the UN and worldwide. He was awarded his PhD with Distinction by the University of Chicago following three years of adventurous fieldwork as a Fulbright and Woodrow Wilson National Fellow\, including hunting down former SS officers and working undercover during communist martial law in Poland. He was honored with the Anne Frank Center’s prestigious “Spirit of Anne Frank Award” and is the two-time Emmy Award-winning Producer of Special Programs for Long Island’s Cinema Arts Centre. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/elie-wiesel-soul-on-fire/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:No Asylum — The Anne Frank Family's Dreams of America
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nAnne Frank’s father Otto’s recently discovered letters at New York’s YIVO archives reveal new information about the family’s struggle to obtain visas to save themselves from the clutches of the Nazis. The film No Asylum: The Untold Chapter of Anne Frank’s Story shares unknown details of the Frank family’s story before they went into hiding in the attic\, and is a call to action for tolerance and respect.\n\n \n\nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n\n \n\nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ October 24-27\, watch the film No Asylum: The Untold Chapter of Anne Frank’s Story on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, October 26 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\n \nPaula Fouce is a critically acclaimed author and filmmaker whose films include Not in God’s Name: In Search of Tolerance with the Dalai Lama\, Song of the Dunes: Search for the Original Gypsies\, Naked in Ashes; Origins of Yoga and No Asylum: The Untold Chapter of Anne Frank’s Story\, created together with YIVO\, which screened at the United Nations in Geneva. Her book\, Not In God’s Name: Making Sense Of Religious Conflict\, outlines solutions to religious based violence. It includes interviews with Mother Teresa\, the Dalai Lama and many faith leaders\, and visits to madrassas. \nJonathan Brent is a historian\, publisher\, translator\, writer\, and teacher. In 2009\, he became Executive Director and CEO of The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research where he initiated The Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collection Project\, an international project to conserve and digitize all of YIVO’s pre-World War II collections in New York City and Vilnius\, Lithuania. In 2018\, he initiated the development of the YIVO Digital Museum of East European and Russian Jewish Life. In 2019 he received the Cross of the Knight of the Order for Merits to Lithuania by the President of the Republic of Lithuania in recognition of his work in promoting cooperation between Lithuania and YIVO and for the preservation of the prewar Jewish archives of Lithuania. \n \nSharon Douglas\, moderator\, is the former CEO of the Anne Frank Center USA and is a Board member of the Sousa Mendes Foundation. 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 former long-standing board member of the Anne Frank Center USA\, Sharon also served 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 from Mills College of Education\, with graduate study at Queens College and St. John’s University. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed. \n\nThis program is co-presented with the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/no-asylum-the-anne-frank-familys-dreams-of-america/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251020
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SUMMARY:Music as Resistance — Reconstructing the Lost Music of Auschwitz
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nThe Lost Music of Auschwitz tells the remarkable story of British composer Leo Geyer’s 8-year long mission to piece together a treasure-trove of forgotten fragments of music manuscripts found in the archives of the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum. \n \nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\nxxxxx \n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ October 17-20\, watch the film The Lost Music of Auschwitz on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, October 19 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\nCaroline Kennedy is a British soprano who appears in The Lost Music of Auschwitz and is celebrated for her versatility and warmth on stage. A graduate of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama\, she has performed roles across the UK\, including Despina in Così fan tutte\, Olympia in The Tales of Hoffmann\, and Adriana in The Boys from Syracuse. She recently performed music from The Lost Music of Auschwitz at London’s Bloomsbury Theatre. Beyond the stage\, Caroline is dedicated to community engagement\, regularly performing in care homes and leading singing groups for people living with dementia\, using music to connect\, uplift\, and inspire.\nLeo Geyer\, left\, is a young composer\, conductor and presenter. He began his career at the Royal Opera House as a Cover Conductor for The Royal Ballet and is now the Founder and Artistic Director of Constella OperaBallet. Following his traineeship with the BBC\, Leo has presented for BBC Radio 3 and Sky Arts TV. He has also contributed to Add to Playlist and Archive on Four on BBC Radio 4. In addition\, he has appeared as an artist on BBC Radio 3 and 4 and discussed musical matters on BBC News. As a guest conductor\, he has collaborated with the BBC Concert Orchestra\, English National Opera\, Birmingham Contemporary Music Ensemble\, the National Theatre and other ensembles.\n\nAntal Zalai\, right\, is a classical concert violinist who appears in the film The Lost Music of Auschwitz\, performing in tribute to a young Roma victim of the Holocaust. He was born in Budapest in a poor family of Roma ethnicity\, and he first became famous for his interpretations of the music of Bartók. His father\, grandfather and great-grandfather were also musicians. He has performed in forty countries on four continents\, and his playing has been praised by the legendary violinists Isaac Stern\, Yehudi Menuhin and Igor Oistrakh. He was trained in Brussels and is a professor at the Brussels Conservatory of Music.\n\n\n\n\nDr. Jud Newborn\, left\, who will moderate\, was the Founding Historian of New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage and is co-author of the acclaimed Sophie Scholl and the White Rose. A dramatic multimedia lecturer\, he has spoken throughout North America\, at the UN and worldwide. He was awarded his PhD with Distinction by the University of Chicago following three years of adventurous fieldwork as a Fulbright and Woodrow Wilson National Fellow\, including hunting down former SS officers and working undercover during communist martial law in Poland. He was honored with the Anne Frank Center’s prestigious “Spirit of Anne Frank Award” and is the two-time Emmy Award-winning Producer of Special Programs for Long Island’s Cinema Arts Centre.\nxxxxx\nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/the-lost-music-of-auschwitz/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Walter Winchell and the Defeat of the German American Bund
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nWalter Winchell\, the newspaper columnist\, radio commentator and television personality\, pioneered the fast-paced\, gossip-driven\, politically charged journalism that dominates today. His on-air activism to his 50 million listeners during World War II helped to defeat the German American Bund\, the US version of the Nazi party. While his post-war legacy is much more problematic\, his enormously impactful wartime efforts are worthy of being remembered and celebrated. \n \nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ September 26-29 view the film Walter Winchell — The Power of Gossip on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, September 28 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\n\n\n\nBen Loeterman produced and directed Walter Winchell: The Power of Gossip for the PBS series American Masters. He holds two Emmy awards for directing and investigative journalism\, two Columbia duPont Awards for his films about the 9/11 attacks\, and Amnesty International’s Humanitarian Spotlight award for The Triumph of Evil\, about how US policy actively enabled the genocide in Rwanda. His work appeared on the first twenty seasons of the PBS series Frontline. His PBS specials include The People v. Leo Frank\, about an infamous case of antisemitism in the South and 1913: Seeds of Conflict\, about the impact of European Jewish migration to Palestine during the Ottoman Empire. His current film is about US propaganda\, censorship and the atomic bomb.\nArnie Bernstein is a historian and author with a passion for uncovering overlooked stories from America’s past. His critically acclaimed works include Swastika Nation: Fritz Kuhn and the Rise and Fall of the German-American Bund and Bath Massacre: America’s First School Bombing. His work has been honored by the Illinois State Library Center for the Book and the State Library of Michigan. He appears as an expert in the PBS American Experience episode Nazi Town\, USA and in Germany’s national public television documentary The American Führer: Hitler’s Deputy in America. He has served as a panelist for webinars hosted by New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage and was interviewed on the podcast Star-Spangled Fascism.\n\n \nFelix Etienne-Edouard Pfeifle\, right\, who will moderate\, is an architectural designer with considerable expertise in World War II. He graduated cum laude from UC-Berkeley and was a Fulbright Fellow in Vienna. He has taught at the New School for Social Research and was President of the Fulbright Association (Los Angeles) and the Los Angeles Bach Festival. He previously moderated our Sunday programs on Otto von Habsburg\, the Dutch heroine Hannie Schaft\, and the monarchies during World War II\, and he facilitated our program on the late Russian resistance hero Alexei Navalny. \nxxxxx \n\n\n\nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/walter-winchell-and-the-german-american-bund/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Operation Wedding — The Story of Soviet Jews Who Cracked the Iron Curtain
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nLeningrad\, 1970. A group of Soviet Jews who were denied exit visas plots to hijack an empty plane and escape the USSR. 45 years later\, filmmaker Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov reveals the compelling story of her parents\, leaders of the group\, “heroes” in the West but “terrorists” in Russia\, even today. \n \nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ September 12-15 view the film Operation Wedding on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, September 14 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 PANEL\nAnat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov was born and raised in Israel and studied filmmaking in Israel and in England before embarking on a film career\, achieving success in both popular media and promotional productions. She is best known for her award-winning documentary Operation Wedding\, winner of 21 international awards. The film tells the story of her parents\, leaders of the 1970 Soviet “plane hijacking” plot that drew global attention to the plight of Soviet Jews and helped crack the Iron Curtain. She also developed the educational program Let My People Go\, created for the Prime Minister’s Office (Nativ) and the Ministry of Education\, which provides lesson plans and activities on the Soviet Jewry struggle to educators in Israel and beyond. \nGlenn Richter\, a political science graduate of Queens College in New York\, helped found the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry (SSSJ) in 1964 under the leadership of Yakov Birnbaum\, whose grandfather coined the term “Zionism.” Drawing on civil rights movement tactics\, SSSJ led innovative demonstrations\, lobbied Congress and coordinated with global activists to support Jews oppressed in the USSR. Following the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991\, SSSJ shifted to supporting Soviet Jewish immigration to Israel and rebuilding Jewish life in Russia for those who chose to stay. Glenn now devotes himself to Jewish volunteer work\, including monitoring court cases involving antisemitic violence. \n \nJanna (Lipmanova) Kaplan\, who will moderate\, is a Senior Research Scientist at Brandeis University\, specializing in Neuropsychology and Space Research. Her degrees are from the University of Leningrad. A former refusenik\, she came to the United States from the Soviet Union in 1982 at the age of 28 as a Jewish political refugee\, fleeing state sponsored antisemitic violence and intellectual and cultural suppression. In the United States\, she was able to rebuild her life\, find personal fulfillment and professional success. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed. \nxxxxx\nThis program is co-sponsored by the Soviet Jewry Movement Archives Project.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/operation-wedding-the-story-of-soviet-jews-who-cracked-the-iron-curtain/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250824
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SUMMARY:Women's Resistance at Auschwitz
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nSabotage tells the dramatic and unknown story of the women’s underground operation in Auschwitz-Birkenau. It is a story of feminine heroism\, resistance\, hope and tragedy\, told through the eyes of Anna Heilman\, sister of Estera Wajcblum\, the youngest member of the women’s resistance group\, that also included Róza Robota\, Ella Gärtner and Regina Safirsztajn. These heroic women\, whose names we should remember\, helped plan and implement the Sondercommando Revolt of October 7\, 1944. \n \nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ August 22-25\, watch the film Sabotage on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, August 24 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\n \n\n\nNoa Aharoni is an award-winning filmmaker known for her compelling documentaries and storytelling. Her documentary\, Shadows explores the complex legacy of the Holocaust through the experiences of the second generation\, garnered significant attention\, premiering at festivals such as Docaviv and IDFA and earning her a nomination for the Israeli Academy Award for Best Documentary. Shadows also received the Best Documentary Film Award at the Israeli Documentary Awards. Her debut feature film\, By Summer’s End\, was also recognized with a Distribution Award and an Israeli Academy Award nomination\, further showcasing her talent.\n\n\n\nDr. Jud Newborn\, left\, who will moderate\, was the Founding Historian of New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage and is co-author of the acclaimed Sophie Scholl and the White Rose. A dramatic multimedia lecturer\, he has spoken throughout North America\, at the UN and worldwide. He was awarded his PhD with Distinction by the University of Chicago following three years of adventurous fieldwork as a Fulbright and Woodrow Wilson National Fellow\, including hunting down former SS officers and working undercover during communist martial law in Poland. He was honored with the Anne Frank Center’s prestigious “Spirit of Anne Frank Award” and is the Emmy Award-winning Producer of Special Programs for Long Island’s Cinema Arts Centre.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAllan Eliyahu Mallenbaum has been a student\, researcher\, and educator of Holocaust Resistance since 1994 when he discovered that his 2nd cousin\, Rosa Robota\, had been the heroic leader of the women’s resistance at Auschwitz. A native of Brooklyn\, NY\, he is retired from a career as a marketing and advertising executive in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. Along the way he fought for Jewish causes in the JDL\, where he created the slogan “Never Again!” He also founded the Rosa Robota Foundation\, Jewish Survival Legion\, and Long Island Genealogy Federation\, and served as president of The Computer Genealogy Society. A Plainview\, NY resident\, he remains active in the Jewish War Veterans and other groups.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nxxxxx\nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/the-women-heroes-of-the-auschwitz-revolt/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening,Lecture
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250818
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SUMMARY:Cartoonists Against Racism: The Secret Jewish War on Bigotry
DESCRIPTION:BOOK LAUNCH EVENT!\n1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nCartoonists Against Racism uncovers the secret campaign spearheaded by the American Jewish Committee to create anti-racist comics and cartoons to flood America’s newspapers\, classrooms\, and union halls during World War II. Meet the artists and the work that was their ammunition in the battle for America’s soul. \n \nxxxxx \nTo order the book\, click here.\nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ Sunday\, August 17 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\n\n\nDr. Rafael Medoff\, left\, is the founding director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies and the author of more than twenty books about the Holocaust\, Zionism\, and Jewish history\, including the nonfiction graphic novel Whistleblowers: Four Who Fought to Expose the Holocaust to America (with Dean Motter) and Cartoonists Against Racism: The Secret Jewish War on Bigotry (with Craig Yoe). He has taught Jewish history at Ohio State University\, Purchase College of the State University of New York\, and elsewhere\, and co-created animated shorts about the Holocaust\, with Stan Lee and Neal Adams\, for Disney.\n\nJordan Gorfinkel is a cartoonist\, musician\, writer\, producer. For nearly a decade he was a manager of the Batman franchise at DC Comics\, where his creations serve as inspiration for television\, film\, games and more. His creative studio\, Avalanche Comics Entertainment\, produces content for corporations\, nonprofits and entertainment companies. He draws JewishCartoon.com\, the weekly comic strip featured in newspapers and online. His Jewish Cartoon Workshop gets participants of all ages and backgrounds drawing comics about Jewish themes\, which he then collects into a comic book. He serves as a speaker and artist-in-residence for synagogues\, Passover retreats and fundraising events.\n\n\n\n\nxxxxx\n\n\n\nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/cartoonists-against-racism-the-secret-jewish-war-on-bigotry/
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250728
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SUMMARY:The Daring Rescue of Denmark’s Jewish Community
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nThe collective rescue action that saved about 95% of the Danish Jewish population in October 1943 is a unique story in the annals of Holocaust rescue. New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage currently has on view a must-see exhibition about this story\, designed for young people\, ages 9 and up\, and their families. Meet the curator who created this exhibition\, the historian who consulted on it and a Holocaust survivor who was himself born in Denmark. \n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ July 25-28 view the film Voices in the Void on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, July 27 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\n\nEllen Bari is the curator and project director of the landmark exhibition Courage to Act: Rescue in Denmark on view at New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage and designed especially for young people\, ages 9 and up\, and their families. She is an award-winning museum exhibit curator\, multi-media producer and children’s book author. She was instrumental in developing the Learning Center for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Over the years\, her projects have often pioneered new technologies for such clients as the Children’s Museum of Manhattan\, Sesame Workshop\, Nickelodeon\, American Express\, HarperCollins Interactive\, WNET and others. She holds an M.A. from Columbia University\, Teacher’s College.\nSteen Metz was one of the few Danish Jews not to escape in 1943. Instead\, at age eight\, he and his family were deported to Theresienstadt\, where his father died. Steen and his mother were liberated by the Red Cross in April 1945. They returned to their hometown and resumed their lives\, with Steen even returning to his old school. As an adult\, he left Denmark for England and then moved to Canada before settling in the United States. He now frequently speaks to the public about his Holocaust experiences in an attempt to prevent the occurrence of future Holocausts. He is a retired executive in the food service industry.\nTherkel Straede is a professor of contemporary history at the University of Southern Denmark and one of the world’s leading experts on the 1943 rescue of the Jews of Denmark. His newest book\, about the networks and motives of Jewish and non-Jewish rescuers\, will be published in August of this year. He worked with the Museum of Jewish Heritage on their landmark exhibition about the Danish rescue story. He operates a website about the Danish deportees in the Theresienstadt ghetto and has received a congressional citation by the U.S. Congress for his achievements in Holocaust research and education.\nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/the-daring-rescue-of-denmarks-jewish-community/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250622
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250623
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SUMMARY:The Last Nazi Hunter
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nThe film The Last Nazi Hunter tells the dramatic true story of Dr. Efraim Zuroff and his decades long efforts to bring Nazi war criminals to justice. See the film and then meet him in person. A rare opportunity!  Zuroff will be in dialogue with Dr. Mordecai Paldiel\, who will also speak about a few individuals who were both Nazi collaborators and rescuers of Jews\, and how Yad Vashem handled such cases. \nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ June 20-23\, watch the film The Last Nazi Hunter on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, June 22 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\nDr. Efraim Zuroff was the Director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Jerusalem. As the world’s last Nazi hunter\, he co-created the project\, “Operation Last Chance” that investigates and convicts Nazi war criminals. He is internationally recognized for his role in the arrest\, extradition and prosecution of Dinko Šakić\, the fascist commandant of Jasenovac Concentration Camp. Dr. Zuroff is the author of 500 scholarly articles\, publications\, and books about the Holocaust and related subjects. His works include: Occupation Nazi-Hunter\, Operation Last Chance\, Our People\, and the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s “Annual Status Report on the Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals.” \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\, and Saving One’s Own. He serves on the B’nai B’rith Commission to honor Jewish rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. He is also on the Board of the Sousa Mendes Foundation and\, thanks to his efforts\, there is now a square named for Aristides de Sousa Mendes in Jerusalem. He provided the list of 60 diplomat-rescuers honored by the US Congress in 2024 in the Forgotten Heroes of the Holocaust Congressional Gold Medal Act. \n  \n\nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/the-last-nazi-hunter/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:The Jewish History of Comic Book Superheroes
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nDo you know the secret Jewish history of comic books? Have you heard the Jewish stories behind iconic characters such as Superman and Spider-Man? And how comic books have portrayed the Holocaust? Tune into this free program to find out. \n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ Sunday\, June 8 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\n  \n \nMark S. Zaid\, left\, is a Washington\, D.C. based attorney who is repeatedly named a “Best Lawyer” in Washingtonian Magazine. He is also an avid comic book collector and wrote the preface to the graphic novel Whistleblowers. In 2017\, he co-founded a non-profit law firm that provides pro bono legal representation to whistleblowers\, particularly in the national security arena. He is the grandson of the late Rabbi David Max Eichhorn\, who with U.S. forces liberated Dachau Concentration Camp\, and he co-edited the book The GI’s Rabbi: World War Two Letters of Rabbi David Max Eichhorn (Univ. Press Kansas\, 2004). \n \nDanny Fingeroth\, right\, is a cultural historian\, specializing in history at the intersection of Jewish and American cultures. His books include Disguised as Clark Kent: Jews\, Comics\, and the Creation of the Superhero. His most recent book is Jack Ruby: The Many Faces of Oswald’s Assassin\, which takes us through Ruby’s bizarre life leading up to and beyond that fateful weekend in 1963 when he killed Lee Harvey Oswald on live TV. Fingeroth has served as an executive editor and writer at Marvel and other media companies and has spoken on NBC’s Today Show and NPR’s All Things Considered. \n \nDr. Rafael Medoff\, left\, is the founding director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies and the author of more than twenty books about the Holocaust\, Zionism\, and Jewish history\, including the nonfiction graphic novel Whistleblowers: Four Who Fought to Expose the Holocaust to America (with Dean Motter) and Cartoonists Against Racism: The Secret Jewish War on Bigotry (with Craig Yoe). He has taught Jewish history at Ohio State University\, Purchase College of the State University of New York\, and elsewhere\, and co-created animated shorts about the Holocaust\, with Stan Lee and Neal Adams\, for Disney. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/the-jewish-history-of-comic-book-heroes/
CATEGORIES:Discussion
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250602
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SUMMARY:Aristides de Sousa Mendes -- The Angel of Bordeaux
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nThe film The Consul of Bordeaux is a semi-fictionalized feature film based on the story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes and the families he saved. Please join us for this free program on our inspiring hero! \n \nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ May 30-June 2\, watch the film The Consul of Bordeaux on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, June 1 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\n\n\nElizabeth Eames is a retired professor of cultural anthropology at Bates College in Lewiston\, Maine. Her mother\, along with four siblings and their parents\, fled from Lille\, France in 1940 and received life-saving visas from Aristides de Sousa Mendes. Then\, from Lisbon\, they sailed to the Caribbean before eventually landing in New York. She has been volunteering with African refugees\, immigrants\, and asylum seekers in Maine\, thereby manifesting both her African Studies background and her own mother’s history.\n\nJan de Moncada is a great-grandson of Aristides de Sousa Mendes. He grew up in Portugal\, and is currently an English teacher working in France. During his childhood and adolescence he watched his father António working hard for the recognition of the action of Aristides de Sousa Mendes\, which meant that there was a lot of discussion in his household about human rights and the suffering of the Jewish people. That upbringing helped him develop a moral and ethical compass that he hopes to transmit to his children and their generation.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGerald Mendes is the grandson of Aristides and Angelina de Sousa Mendes. Gerald was born in Montreal and lives in France. He worked all his professional life as an Industrial Engineer\, mostly in the pharmaceutical industry. Now retired\, he continues to do professional training in the areas of Supply Chain and Logistics. He first learned of his grandfather’s action in 1967\, after his father returned home from the ceremony in New York where the Yad Vashem medal was conferred. Gerald is a former Board member of the Sousa Mendes Foundation and has been promoting his grandfather’s legacy since the 1980s. He is a triathlete as well as a new grandfather to baby Jacob\, born in 2020.\n\n\n\n\nxxxxx\n\n\n\nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/aristides-de-sousa-mendes-the-angel-of-bordeaux/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250511
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250512
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SUMMARY:Family Treasures Lost & Found — One Woman's Search for Answers
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nOn this Mother’s Day film-and-discussion program we present Family Treasures Lost & Found — exploring the quest of journalist Karen Frenkel to learn the stories that remained untold about her mother’s Holocaust survival experience.  \n \nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \n\nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ May 9-12\, watch the film Family Treasures Lost and Found on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, May 11 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\n \nKaren A. Frenkel\, right\, is an award-winning journalist\, author\, and documentary producer whose story is told in Family Treasures Lost & Found. She blogs for The Times of Israel about her parents’ World War II survival experiences\, fascism\, and political parallels today. Her previous award-winning documentaries include Minerva’s Machine: Women and Computing and Net.LEARNING\, both of which aired on public television.Her articles have appeared in Bloomberg BusinessWeek\, Discover\, Essence\, Forbes\, Scientific American and The New York Times among others. She co-authored with Isaac Asimov the book Robots: Machines in Man’s Image. \n \nMarcia Rock\, left\, is a documentary filmmaker whose films cover international dilemmas\, women’s issues and personal perspectives. Aside from Family Treasures Lost & Found\, her other award-winning films include UnReined\, about an Israeli equestrian champion who built the first Palestinian equestrian team\, SERVICE: When Women Come Marching Home\, Daughters of the Troubles: Belfast Stories and Dancing with My Father. She founded and directs the News and Documentary program at the NYU Carter Journalism Institute and co-authored with Marlene Sanders Waiting for Primetime: The Women of Television News. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/family-treasures-lost-and-found-one-womans-search-for-answers/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Fred Korematsu — An American Hero
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nFred Korematsu defied the US government in 1942 when he refused to be incarcerated as a Japanese American. His case went all the way to the Supreme Court\, which ruled against him. He was finally exonerated in 1983\, in a landmark case that restored his civil rights and helped lead to reparations for all Japanese Americans who had been incarcerated during World War II. In 1998\, Korematsu received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The film Of Civil Wrongs and Rights tells his powerful and important story. \n \nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ May 2-5\, watch the film Of Civil Wrongs and Rights on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, May 4 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nDr. Rafael Medoff is the founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies and the author of more than twenty books about the Holocaust\, Zionism\, and American Jewish history. He has written extensively on the connection between the internment of the Japanese-Americans and the Roosevelt administration’s policy toward Jewish refugees. Dr. Medoff has taught Jewish history at Ohio State University\, Purchase College of the State University of New York\, and (currently) Yeshiva University. \n\n \nLorraine K. Bannai is Professor Emerita at Seattle University School of Law and Director Emerita of the Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality. After earning her J.D. from the University of San Francisco School of Law\, she served on the legal team that represented Fred Korematsu and successfully challenged his World War II conviction for refusing to comply with orders that resulted in the mass removal of Japanese Americans from the West Coast. She is the author of Enduring Conviction: Fred Korematsu and His Quest for Justice. \nEric Paul Fournier is a San Francisco-based filmmaker. His theatrically released documentary film\, Of Civil Wrongs and Rights\, tells the story of Fred Korematsu’s 40-year struggle for justice and Supreme Court challenge of the constitutionality of the Japanese American internment camps during World War II. Short listed for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature\, it won two Emmy Awards\, for Directing and Editing\, following its national television broadcast on PBS in 2002. The film\, which was named one of the 15 Best Films of the First 20 Years POV/PBS\, was rereleased by PBS in an anniversary box set. \nxxxxx\n\nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/fred-korematsu-an-american-hero/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Let My People Go -- The Women Who Began the Movement to Rescue Soviet Jews
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nThis film-and-discussion program tells the story of how a group of young Jewish women\, in Britain\, Ireland and several other western countries\, known as the “35s” because of their median age\, created an international movement to rescue persecuted “refusenik” Jews from the Soviet Union. In the new film Iron Ladies\, these remarkable women share their untold story on film\, joined by Natan Sharansky and others. \n \nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ April 4-7\, watch the film Iron Ladies on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, April 6 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\nSharon Rosen (right) is the former global Director of Religious Engagement at Search for Common Ground\, the world’s largest non-governmental organization dedicated to peacebuilding. She is featured in the film Iron Ladies as one of the activists in the group\, “the 35s.” A facilitator in interreligious programming and advancing religious freedom and reconciliation\, she worked with field offices in over 20 countries. She co-created the Universal Code of Conduct on Holy Sites for the protection of sacred spaces and for the past eight years\, directed a Jewish-Muslim religious leaders’ initiative to expand peace within religious communities in Israel. Born in the UK\, Sharon has lived in Jerusalem for 43 years.\nJanna Kaplan (left) is a Senior Research Scientist at Brandeis University\, specializing in Neuropsychology and Space Research. Her degrees are from the University of Leningrad. A former refusenik\, she came to the United States from the Soviet Union in 1982 at the age of 28 as a Jewish political refugee\, fleeing state sponsored anti-Semitic violence and intellectual and cultural suppression. In the United States\, she was able to rebuild her life\, find personal fulfillment and professional success.\n\n\n \nRoger Childs is the Senior Production Executive and Commissioning Editor of Religious Content at Ireland’s national broadcaster\, RTÉ and he is the Producer of the film Iron Ladies. A graduate of Cambridge University\, he has over 30 years’ experience as a producer\, executive producer and commissioning editor\, delivering a wide variety of award-winning content across many genres and all media\, for broadcasters including the BBC\, Channel 4 (UK)\, ARTE (Europe)\, PBS (USA)\, ABC (Australia) and RTÉ (Ireland). \n \nDr. Shulamit Reinharz\, who will moderate\, is the Jacob Potofsky Professor Emerita of Sociology at Brandeis University. While at Brandeis\, she created a graduate program in Women’s Studies as well as the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute for the study of the intersection between Jews and gender. She was born in Amsterdam and grew up in the United States with intermittent stays in Israel. She is the author or editor of sixteen books\, including the recent 100 Jewish Brides: Stories from Around the World and Hiding in Holland: A Resistance Memoir. She has participated in numerous programs of the Sousa Mendes Foundation.  \n\nxxxxx\nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/let-my-people-go-the-women-who-began-the-movement-to-rescue-soviet-jewry/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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