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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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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/
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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: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: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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251026
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251027
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251019
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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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250825
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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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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
DTSTAMP:20260419T050456
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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: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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SUMMARY:Sugihara Survivors
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nFleeing from Kaunas\, Lithuania in 1940\, thousands of Jewish refugees escaped by train across Russia and then by boat to Japan thanks to visas from the Japanese diplomat\, Chiune Sugihara. Many years later — as told in the film Sugihara Survivors — a Japanese writer\, Akira Kitade\, inherits a photo album with pictures of some of these refugees. He sets out on a mission to discover what became of these Sugihara visa recipients. \n \nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ March 21-24\, watch the film Sugihara Survivors: Jewish and Japanese\, Past and Future on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register.  \n⇒ Sunday\, March 23 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\nSylvia W. Smoller\, who appears in the  film Sugihara Survivors\, is Distinguished University Professor Emerita in the Department of Epidemiology & Population Health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine\, where she first joined the faculty in 1969. She also serves as Dorothy and William Manealoff Foundation and Molly Rosen Chair in Social Medicine Emerita at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine\, as a principal investigator of their Women’s Health Initiative\, and as co-principal investigator for their site in the Hispanic Community Health Study. She is a fellow of the American College of Epidemiology\, the New York Academy of Sciences\, and the American Heart Association.\n \nRichard Hurowitz is a writer\, investor\, and the publisher of The Octavian Report\, the quarterly magazine of ideas. His article on Aristides de Sousa Mendes appeared in The New York Times\, and his book In the Garden of the Righteous has just been released in paperback by HarperCollins. He serves on the governing board of the Yale University Art Gallery and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was a co-founder of the Renew Democracy Initiative. He received his BA in history from Yale University\, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He earned a JD from Columbia University School of Law\, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and the editor-in-chief of the Columbia/VLA Journal of Law & the Arts.  He is a member of the New York State Bar Association. \n\n\n\nMadoka Sugihara is the granddaughter of Chiune Sugihara. She is the Chairwoman of the non-profit organization Chiune Sugihara Visas for Life. This Tokyo-based group aims to perpetuate the legacy of Sugihara’s humanitarian acts and support related activities at home and abroad promoting human rights and peace. It operated Tokyo’s only Holocaust-related museum from 2019-21. Madoka is actively involved in panel exhibitions and lectures across Japan and elsewhere to promote greater awareness of the deeds of her illustrious grandfather.\n\n\n\nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/sugihara-survivors/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:NOVA's Holocaust Escape Tunnel
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nIn this film produced by the NOVA science series and directed by Paula S. Apsell and Kirk Wolfinger\, cutting-edge technology reveals a Holocaust escape tunnel in a forest outside Vilnius\, Lithuania. Meet the lead scientist who discovered the escape tunnel and the daughter of one of the survivors who tunneled his way to freedom. \n \nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \n\nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ March 7-10\, watch the film Holocaust Escape Tunnel on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, March 9 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\nPaula S. Apsell\, left\, got her start in broadcasting at WGBH Boston\, where she joined NOVA\, a documentary series that has set the standard for science programming. In 1985\, she was asked to take over the reins at NOVA which she then ran for 33 years. During her tenure\, NOVA won every major broadcasting award\, most many times over. She has been recognized with numerous individual awards for her work\, including the 2018 Lifetime Achievement Emmy. She holds honorary doctorates from Southern Methodist University and Dickinson College. She founded Leading Edge Productions to make documentaries of scientific\, cultural\, and historical importance. Her feature documentary Resistance – They Fought Back was broadcasted nationally on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.\n\nHana Amir\, right\, is the daughter of one of the protagonists of the Holocaust tunnel story\, a story she first learned on a class trip to Yad Vashem when she was a senior in high school. Her father was one of the people who dug the tunnel and survived. Her family history led her to become a nurse\, specializing in psychiatric care. Every year during Yom Hashoah\, “Memory in the Living Room” takes place across Israel\, where second generation Holocaust survivors tell their family stories to the next generation. This is something that Hana does every year to keep her family’s history alive.\nKirk Wolfinger\, left\, is an Emmy and Peabody Award winning filmmaker who has produced\, directed and executive produced over 200 hours of series and specials including Holocaust Escape Tunnel. His forte is adventure and science programming\, a genre he has worked in since the 1990s. He has produced more than 30 NOVA specials on topics ranging from biological weapons to lost Nazi U-boats to climate change in Antarctica. He has worked closely with Nobel laureates\, renowned oceanographers\, archeologists\, historians\, astronauts and undersea explorers. In addition to Resistance: They Fought Back\, His other independent documentary feature\, The Rivals\, received numerous film festival accolades including Best Documentary Feature at the Phoenix International Film Festival.  \nHarry Jol\, right\, earned his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Simon Fraser University and Ph.D. from the University of Calgary. Harry is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America and is presently a Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire within the Department of Geography and Anthropology. He has conducted research with ground penetrating and other methods at over 1400+ sites around the world. In the past 10 years\, he has developed a unique Holocaust Mapping Program in the Baltics that includes undergraduate student investigating mass execution/burial sites. His research has been highlighted by multiple news outlets such as New York Times\, CNN\, Fox Science News as well as numerous documentaries including BBC and NOVA.\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. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/novas-holocaust-escape-tunnel/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:The Eichmann Trial
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nOn May 11\, 1960\, Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was captured in Argentina after a fifteen-year manhunt and whisked to Jerusalem to stand trial for his crimes against humanity. Told entirely through archival footage of the trial itself and contemporaneous news coverage\, The Eichmann Trial documents one of the most shocking trials in history and the birth of Holocaust awareness and education. \n \nxxxxx \n“As I stand here before you\, judges of Israel\, to lead the prosecution of Adolf Eichmann\, I do not stand alone. With me\, in this place and at this hour\, stand six million accusers.” — Gideon Hausner\, prosecutor of the Eichmann trial \nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \n\nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ February 21-24\, watch the film The Eichmann Trial on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, February 23 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nTamar Hausner-Raveh\, lawyer and daughter of Gideon Hausner\, the trial’s chief prosecutor\, remembered when she was 14 years old\, the day her father was appointed to the case and Eichmann entered her life. “My father shared with us his doubts about whether he could represent the victims without being a survivor himself\,” she said. But he found the inner strength to do so\, as reflected in his opening remarks of the trial: “As I stand here before you\, judges of Israel\, to lead the prosecution of Adolf Eichmann\, I do not stand alone. With me\, in this place and at this hour\, stand six million accusers.” \nElliot Levitt is a freelance documentary film director and editor who has been editing documentaries of all kinds for several years.  His work has been awarded with an Emmy\, aired on television and screened at festivals worldwide. The Eichmann Trial marks his directorial debut. He holds a B.A. in film from the University of Michigan\, and his previous documentary film projects include The Passengers\, The Last Signal and Elvis\, Rocky and Me. The Eichmann Trial premiered in 2023 at the Miami Jewish Film Festival\, and has been shown worldwide to great acclaim. It combines footage of the trial with contemporaneous news coverage to document how the trial was received by the public as it unfolded. \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 \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. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/the-eichmann-trial/
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SUMMARY:The Girl Who Wore Freedom
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nThe Girl Who Wore Freedom tells the story of D-Day as experienced and remembered by the local population of Normandy\, France. This film\, featuring a French girl paying tribute to her American liberators\, reminds us of the historic alliance between the two countries in defense of universal values. \n \nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ February 7-10\, watch the film The Girl Who Wore Freedom on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, February 9 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\nChristian Taylor is an award-winning director\, producer\, writer\, and actor best known for her acclaimed documentary The Girl Who Wore Freedom\, which shares the powerful and emotional stories of D-Day from the perspective of those who lived through it. She hosts the Documentary First Podcast\, featuring conversations with filmmakers and industry professionals. The podcast offers a behind-the-scenes look at real-life storytelling and engages listeners from filmmakers to documentary enthusiasts. With upcoming film projects like Heroes of Carentan and The Brave Dutch\, she continues her dedication to historical preservation and meaningful storytelling. See: documentaryfirst.com. \n \nThomas Voisin (right)\, a Normandy native\, has been passionate about World War II history from a young age. He has traveled across Normandy\, meeting civilian witnesses of the June 6\, 1944\, Allied parachute drops and landings. Driven by a deep commitment to preserving this history\, he became actively involved in local associations\, using historical reenactments and events as tools to share the stories of those who lived through this pivotal time. In collaboration with Flavie Poisson\, he founded Normandy Discovery Tours\, a specialized guided tour company offering immersive experiences on the D-Day beaches\, using both vans and World War II jeeps. He appears in the film\, The Girl Who Wore Freedom. \nDavid Chapman (left) served in the US Army for 30 years\, retiring at the rank of Colonel. From 2015-19\, he served as the Defense and Army Attaché in Paris\, where he managed all military commemorative activities. He was responsible for organizing WWII D-Day commemorations in both Normandy and the South of France for the 72nd to 75th anniversaries. Now as Vice President of Public Affairs at Michelin\, he spearheads the company’s initiative to bring WWII Veterans back to Normandy\, having facilitated battlefield returns for over 100 veterans during D-Day commemorations for the 78th\, 79th\, and 80th anniversaries. He appears in the film\, The Girl Who Wore Freedom.  \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/the-girl-who-wore-freedom/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Unbroken — One Family's Story
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nOn May 20\, 1946\, after fleeing Nazi Germany\, the Weber siblings made headlines when they arrived in the United States by boat. The press reported with amazement that these seven Jewish siblings managed to survive the Holocaust together. But soon after\, in a twist of fate\, they were split up by the United States foster care system. More than forty years later\, the siblings finally reunited\, and began piecing together memories of their unlikely journey to freedom. \n \nBest Documentary Premiere — Heartland International Film Festival \nAudience Choice Best Documentary — Julien Dubuque International Film Festival \nAudience Choice Best Documentary — River Run International Film Festival \nBest First Time Filmmaker— Hot Springs Women’s International Film Festival \nAudience Choice Best Documentary — Berkshire International Film Festival \nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \n\nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ January 24-27\, watch the film UnBroken on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, January 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 \nGinger Lane (right) is the youngest of the siblings whose story is told in UnBroken. She is an award-winning dancer and choreographer. She appeared in WTTW’s film Dance From The Heart\, won a 3Arts Award and a UIC fellowship\, was named one of Chicago’s notable women by the Mayor in 2022\, and received a Distinguished Service to the Dance Field Award from See Chicago Dance. She has served on the Board of Directors of the Ronald McDonald House Charities\, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago\, and ReinventAbility. In 2008 she conceived and produced Counter Balance: the Power of Integrated Dance. She serves on the Cultural Advisory Council for the City of Chicago. \n \nA life-long actress\, Beth Lane (left) finally stepped on the other side of the camera with her feature documentary film\, UnBroken\, as executive producer\, director\, and writer. Her directorial debut premiered in Indianapolis in October 2023\, followed by the West Coast premiere at the 24th Annual Newport Beach Film Festival and the East Coast premiere at the DOC NYC Film Festival. Beth established The Weber Family Arts Foundation\, whose mission is to combat antisemitism\, bigotry and hate through the arts by shining a light on stories of hope\, courage and bravery. A museum exhibition is in the works as well as a one-woman play\, titled LINA. \nAaron Soffin (right) is a documentary film editor whose award-winning films include Sebastian Junger and Nick Quested’s Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of Isis; DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus’ The Return of the War Room; Andrew Jacobs’ uplifting tale of a community of Holocaust survivors refusing to surrender their joie-de-vivre\, Four Seasons Lodge; and Andrew Berends’ verité portraits of Iraqi families\, Blood of My Brother and When Adnan Comes Home. He recently edited Ramona Diaz’ And So It Begins which premiered at Sundance and Beth Lane’s multiple audience-award winning portrait of her family history\, UnBroken. \nJonathan Snipes (left) is a composer and sound designer for film\, television and theater living in Los Angeles\, and he composed the soundtrack to the film UnBroken. He teaches sound design in the theater and film departments at UCLA\, and is a member of the rap group CLIPPING\, an American experimental hip hop group with Daveed Diggs and William Huston. CLIPPING is currently signed to Sub Pop Records. Jonathan has served as a composer and sound editor within a wide variety of visual media\, including documentaries\, narrative films\, short films\, television\, and music videos. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/unbroken-one-familys-story/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241209
DTSTAMP:20260419T050456
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SUMMARY:Here Lived...
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK \n\n\n\nIn our year-end program\, we honor the German artist Gunter Demnig\, creator of the Stolpersteine project. The film Here Lived opens as Demnig lays his 100\,000th stone in Nuremberg. It retraces his work\, journey and impact\, through the stories of families of Holocaust victims and survivors. As their stories merge\, we come to understand how the art project Demnig calls “social sculpture” has created a new way to help heal the Nazi horrors. This is one of the most unusual story-telling projects in history.\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nxxxxx\n\nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \n\nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ December 6-9\, watch the film Here Lived on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, December 8 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\n\n\n\n\nJane Wells is an Emmy-award nominated filmmaker\, best known for Tricked\, a documentary about sex trafficking in the USA\, and for the groundbreaking documentary feature The Devil Came on Horseback\, about the genocide in Darfur. As the founder of 3 Generations\, she has written\, produced and directed over 50 short films and videos. Her films have been selected by film festivals including Sundance\, AFI/Silverdocs\, Hotdocs\, Tribeca\, Montclair\, Nashville\, Thessaloniki\, Aspen Shorts Fest\, Red Nation and The American Indian Film Festival. Her award-winning shorts A System of Justice\, Native Silence\, Preserving the Holocaust\, and most recently A Kaddish For Selim have played widely on the festival circuit.\nAlexander Stukenberg\, featured in the film Here Lived\, manages the Stolpersteine project’s production and coordination in Belgium\, the Netherlands and Luxembourg and delivers public presentations to raise awareness about Stolpersteine. Born in Bad Harzburg\, Germany\, he has a broad professional background in logistics\, project management and global partnerships. After serving in the German Navy he joined the company TNT Express Worldwide\, where he managed special services and logistics\, including sponsorship coordination for the European and German Film Awards. Today he is proud to be working on the Stolpersteine project full-time.  \nJane Friedman is a long-time journalist with more than eighteen years’ experience as a foreign correspondent. She reported from Paris (for Newsweek)\, in Jerusalem (for The New York Times) and in Beirut and Cairo (for CNN and The Washington Post). She grew up on Long Island\, near New York City\, and had no idea she had any relation to the Holocaust because her parents\, refugees from Belgium\, repressed everything. The discovery\, in recent years\, has changed her life and her sense of who she is. She continues to write – but mostly now about her encounter with her family’s World War II reality. She recently traveled to Germany for the embedding of four stumbling stones to memorialize relatives who were either persecuted or murdered by the Third Reich\, an experience she chronicled in Moment magazine. \n\n\n\n Ulrika Grünwald Citron\, a daughter of a Holocaust survivor from Amsterdam\, was born in Sweden and moved to the US to pursue college. Her story is told in the film\, Here Lived. Upon graduating from Temple University\, she worked at WNET/Great Performances in New York\, followed by Swedish Broadcasting\, New York. Ulrika has chaired and co-chaired committees at the USC Shoah Foundation and the United Jewish Appeal of New York. She has pursued involvements in organizations aiming to educate about the Holocaust and genocide. She serves on the Board of Governors of the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam and supports the Stolpersteine Project in Amsterdam.\n\n\n\nxxxxx\n\nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/here-lived/
CATEGORIES:Award Ceremony,Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Royals at War
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK \nThis program examines the actions of the royal families of Europe during the Holocaust. The film Royals at War is in two episodes\, both of which will be available to all who register. \n \nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ November 17-25\, watch the films Royals at War\, Episodes I and II on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. The first episode will be available starting on November 17\, and the second episode will be available starting on November 22. \n⇒ Sunday\, November 24 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 \nDr. Mordecai Paldiel\, right\, headed the Righteous Among the Nations Department at Yad Vashem from 1982-2007. Some of his books on rescue during the Holocaust include The Path of the Righteous\, Sheltering the Jews\, Saving the Jews\, Diplomat Heroes of the Holocaust\, and Saving One’s Own. He taught at Yeshiva University and Touro College and serves on the Board of the Sousa Mendes Foundation. Thanks to his efforts\, there is now a square named for Aristides de Sousa Mendes in Jerusalem. One of the chapters in his book Saving One’s Own is devoted to the Perelman couple\, Jewish rescuers in Belgium. \nMarc D’Antin\, left\, is the eldest son of Michaela von Habsburg and grandson of Otto von Habsburg\, Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary. Marc spent his childhood living in the United States\, Germany\, and Spain. He received a master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling in 2011 from the University of Central Florida and has spent his career working in education as a behavior analyst. He currently lives in Washington\, D.C.\, where he owns an educational psychology company\, Fit Learning DC. Marc spent many summers with his grandfather\, and even accompanied him as an aide on trips throughout Eastern Europe\, where Otto gave talks for the Paneuropean Union. These trips were some of the most formative experiences of his youth.\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 and the Dutch heroine Hannie Schaft\, and he facilitated our program on the late Russian resistance hero Alexei Navalny. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/royals-at-war/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:The Zookeeper's Wife
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK \nJan and Antonina Zabinski were the managers of the Warsaw Zoo.  There\, thanks to their efforts\, 300 Jewish men\, women\, and children were hidden in animal cages and in their home from 1939 to 1945. This remarkable couple was named Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem. On the panel will be Diane Ackerman\, author of the bestselling book The Zookeeper’s Wife\, filmmaker Slawomir Grunberg and Stefania Sitbon\, a living witness to this story. \n \nxxxxx \nTo order a signed and inscribed copy of the New York Times best-selling book\, scroll down to the bottom of this page. \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ November 8-11\, watch the short film Hiding Like Animals on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, November 10 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 \nDiane Ackerman is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Zookeeper’s Wife\, that was made into a feature film. Several of her books have been Pulitzer Prize and National Book Circle Critics Award finalists. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences\, received an honorary doctorate from Kenyon College\, and was named a Literary Lion by the New York Public Library. She holds MFA and PhD degrees from Cornell University\, and has taught at Columbia and Cornell. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times\, The New Yorker\, American Scholar\, Smithsonian\, National Geographic and many other journals. She hosted a five-hour PBS television series inspired by her book\, A Natural History of the Senses. \nSlawomir Grunberg\, director of Hiding Like Animals\, is an Emmy-Award winning documentary filmmaker and a graduate of the Polish Film School in Lodz. His films include: Everything is in Your Hands\, Still Life in Łódź\, Karski & The Lords of Humanity\, Shimon’s Returns\, Castaways\, and many more. His film School Prayer: A Community At War\, screened on PBS\, received an Emmy Award and the Jan Karski Award for moral courage. Grunberg is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and New York Foundation for the Arts and Soros Justice Media Fellowships. His credits as director of photography include: Legacy (Academy Award nomination for best documentary feature) and Sister Rose’s Passion\, which won best short doc at the Tribeca Film Festival and received an Academy Award nomination for best documentary short. \n \nStefania Sitbon was born in Warsaw\, Poland in 1939 and grew up in the Warsaw Ghetto. In 1942\, her family was smuggled into the Warsaw Zoo by Jan and Antonina Zabinski. From there Stefania and her family were separated and sent to convents and surrounding villages. They were liberated in 1945 and reunited in Austria and Poland. In 1957 they emigrated to Israel\, Stefania was married. and she later moved to Canada. In 2014 she went back to the Warsaw Zoo for an emotional meeting with Teresa\, the Zabinskis’ daughter. Stefania and her brother Moshe are the only Warsaw Zoo survivors known to be alive today. She has three children and seven grandchildren. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed. \nSigned and inscribed books available! \nFor more information\, click here.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/zookeepers/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241028
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SUMMARY:The Paper Brigade -- Cultural Resistance in Vilna
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK \nThis film-and-discussion program tells the story of the cultural resistance group in Vilna known as “The Paper Brigade.” Led by the famed Yiddish poet Avrom Sutzkever\, they risked their lives to rescue the cultural and literary heritage of the Jewish community in the “Jerusalem of Lithuania.” \n \nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ October 25-28\, watch the film The Paper Brigade on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, October 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 SPEAKERS\nxxxxx \nHadas Kalderon (right) is an Israeli theater\, television and film actress\, a screenwriter and producer\, and she appears in the film\, The Paper Brigade. She is the granddaughter of the famed Yiddish poet Avrom Sutzkever\, who was the leading figure in this cultural resistance network. She studied acting in Moscow with Anatoly Vasiliev. When she returned to Israel\, she joined Rina Yerushalmi’s Itim Ensemble. Among her many roles is Clytemnestra in the Mythos project and Stella in Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire at the Beit Lessin Theater. In 2009\, she won the Rosenblum Award for Excellence from the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality. \nElisabeth Gallas (left) is the author of A Mortuary of Books. The Rescue of Jewish Culture after the Holocaust\,  published in 2019 and winner of a National Jewish Book Award. She is Deputy Director of the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture in Leipzig\, Germany. She received her Ph.D in Modern History from the Universität Leipzig in 2011. She was a Research Fellow at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute of Holocaust Studies\, and held a Minerva Research Fellowship at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Recently she was a fellow at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on Modern Jewish Legal and Cultural History\, the Holocaust and Aftermath Studies.  \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. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed. \nxxxxx \nThis program is co-sponsored by
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/the-paper-brigade/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:"We were the lucky ones" -- The Psychology of Kindertransport Survivors
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK \nInto the darkness of the Holocaust it is important to add true tales that are life affirming. My Knees Were Jumping; Remembering the Kindertransports was screened at the Sundance Film Festival and was short-listed for an Academy Award nomination. This film\, by Melissa Hacker\, focuses on the psychology of the child survivors and the transmission of memory from one generation to the next. The filmmaker’s mother\, the Academy Award nominated costume designer Ruth Morley (Taxi Driver\, Annie Hall\, The Hustler\, The Miracle Worker\, Tootsie\, and many more classic American movies) fled Vienna on a Kindertransport in January of 1939. She is a strong presence in the film talking about her experiences alongside other former child refugees. \n \n“Intimate… heartfelt…” — The New York Times \n“Unashamedly emotional.” — Newsday \n“A film of exceptional depth and resonance.” — The Forward \nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \n  \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ September 27-30\, watch the film My Knees Were Jumping on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, September 29 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  \nMelissa Hacker\, left\, 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. \nRachel Dahill-Fuchel\, right\, is a career educator\, native New Yorker\, and the daughter of a Kindertransport survivor. She and her father\, Kurt Fuchel\, are featured in the film My Knees Were Jumping; Remembering the Kindertransports. Her father’s story is considered a “happy” one\, as both his parents survived\, although the family was separated for nearly ten years. Unlike other children of Kindertransport survivors\, Rachel knew of her grandparents’ and father’s wartime experiences from an early age. Despite having had the gift of knowing her grandparents\, ripples from the trauma of those times has exacted a price. Opportunities to teach and discuss our shared history are necessary and invaluable\, towards better understanding and preventing future atrocities.  \nSusan Mirow\, Ph.D.\, M.D.\, left\, is a psychiatrist and medical researcher. She is on faculty at the University of Utah School of Medicine and former Clinical Director of Utah State Hospital and Utah’s Psychiatric Consultant for Youth Corrections treating at-risk youth. In her private practice she treats trauma survivors. She has interviewed Holocaust survivors and hidden children for Steven Spielberg’s Shoah project. As the daughter of a Holocaust refugee\, Dr. Mirow didn’t know her cousins\, aunts\, uncles and grandparents\, yet their silent screams from Auschwitz were given voice in her nightmares. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/lucky-ones/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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