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Film screenings: The Consul of Bordeaux
Six screenings:
Friday, March 25, 2016, 6:30 p.m. and 9 p.m.
Saturday, March 26, 4:30 p.m. and 9 p.m.
Sunday, March 27, 2016, 3:30 p.m. and 9 p.m.
Film screening: Disobedience: The Sousa Mendes Story
Q&A led by Andrée Lotey, daughter of a Sousa Mendes visa recipient
Time: 7 p.m.
Price:
$10 CAN members
$15 CAN non-members.
For more information: rosie@templemontreal.ca
Film Screening: With God Against Man, introduced by the filmmaker
In June 2013, filmmaker Semyon Pinkhasov followed a group of visa recipient families, along with members of the Sousa Mendes family, as they embarked on a pilgrimage retracing their families’ footsteps of 73 years earlier. They were “searching for Sousa Mendes” – looking for traces and clues of a lost history in an effort to understand their personal pasts. For trailer click here.
Tickets $5 available at the door. Film screening at 7. Film length is 47′. Guided tours of the exhibition given before and after the screening.
Film screening: Disobedience: The Sousa Mendes Story
Q & A following the screening led by Karen Denker, daughter and granddaughter of Sousa Mendes visa recipients.
Tickets: $10
Film Screening, Roundtable and Ceremony: “Hommage à Aristides de Sousa Mendes”
Organized by the Association of Portuguese Speakers in Switzerland. Event in French and Portuguese. Special guest Gerald Mendes.
Film screening and ceremony: Remembering Aristides de Sousa Mendes
Camp Gibraltar, on the island of Jamaica, was a safe haven during World War II for Jews escaping Nazi-occupied Europe. Some of the refugees who found respite there were Sousa Mendes visa recipients. Accordingly, Aristides de Sousa Mendes will be honored during a reunion of the families who once called Camp Gibraltar home.
Film Screening: Disobedience: The Sousa Mendes Story
Presented by the Jewish Federation of Ottawa
Followed by Q&A with Louis-Philippe Mendes, grandson of Aristides de Sousa Mendes
Tickets by donation.
For more information contact: emoscoe@jewishottawa.com
Film Screening: With God Against Man
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The American Club of Lisbon is organizing this “Dinner with a Movie” event to support travel-study grants to the United States. This year’s study topics include American perspectives on the Sousa Mendes story. €35/ €50 For more information: office@americancluboflisbon.com or (+351) 21352-9308. |
Houston Honors Aristides de Sousa Mendes
Refugees in Lisbon, 1940
The American Jewish Committee and the Holocaust Museum Houston are jointly sponsoring a commemoration of Aristides de Sousa Mendes in conjunction with International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Louis-Philippe Mendes, grandson of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, will speak. All events will be held at the Holocaust Museum Houston.
Schedule:
Thursday, January 26, 2017, 6:30 p.m.
Screening of Disobedience: The Sousa Mendes Story at the Holocaust Museum Houston. Free and open to the public.
Friday, January 27, 2017, 10 a.m.
Ceremony “Remembering Aristides de Sousa Mendes” with Houston Diplomatic Consular Corps and remarks by Louis-Philippe Mendes. Free and open to the public, but seating is limited.
January 26-February 26, 2017
In conjunction with the above events, the Sousa Mendes Foundation presents an exhibition of original artifacts, “Sousa Mendes and his Visas to Freedom.” On view will be passports with the original Sousa Mendes visas along with personal items of refugees rescued by Aristides de Sousa Mendes.
For more information, call (713) 942-8000.
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