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SUMMARY:Hans and Sophie Scholl and the White Rose Anti-Nazi Resistance Movement
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nSophie Scholl was a German student and anti-Nazi political activist\, co-founder of the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany. She was convicted of high treason after having been found distributing anti-Nazi leaflets throughout Germany with her brother\, Hans Scholl. They dropped hundreds of these leaflets from a high gallery at the University of Munich down on crowds of students milling about below — arguably the only full-fledged public protest against Nazism to have occurred. Meet Holocaust historian and anthropologist Dr. Jud Newborn\, the world’s leading authority on Hans and Sophie Scholl\, who will inspire you and motivate you to speak truth to power. \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ January 28-31\, watch a documentary film about Hans and Sophie Scholl and the White Rose Anti-Nazi Resistance on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, January 30 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nxxxxx \n \nDr. Jud Newborn served as the Founding Historian and co-creator of New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage. He is the author of the acclaimed Sophie Scholl and the White Rose\, recently reissued in an expanded edition. He has lectured worldwide\, including at the United Nations. Following three years of adventurous fieldwork in Europe as a Fulbright and Woodrow Wilson National Fellow\, including hunting down former SS officers and working undercover for Poland’s “Solidarity” freedom movement during Communism\, he was awarded his PhD with Distinction by the University of Chicago. In 2018 he was honored by the Anne Frank Center with the “Spirit of Anne Frank Award.” \nInterviewer Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff fled Nazi-occupied Europe from Kosice\, Slovakia\, as a small child in 1941\, via Lisbon\, Portugal. Miriam is an appointee to the Florida Education Commissioner’s Holocaust Task Force. She is the Founding Director of the University of Miami Holocaust Institute and is a frequent speaker on Holocaust education at conferences and workshops nationwide. In February 2019 she was given a Special Tribute by the Florida House of Representatives for her work on behalf of the Jewish Community of Florida. In October 2019\, she was honored in Pittsburgh\, PA with The Lifetime Achievement Award given by Classrooms Without Borders. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/sophie-scholl-and-the-white-rose/
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Otto von Habsburg\, Saved by Sousa Mendes
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK • 8 PM VIENNA\nxxxxx \nOtto von Habsburg\, the last Crown Prince of Austria\, was on Hitler’s enemy list. He and his family were rescued with visas from Aristides de Sousa Mendes. During the war he was a leading figure in the war against Hitler\, and after the war he was one of the founders of the European Parliament. \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\nxxxxx \n⇒ January 21-24 (optional) watch the film Disobedience: The Sousa Mendes Story ($6.99) on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register\, with film rental instructions. \n⇒ Sunday\, January 23 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the free presentation by our distinguished panel. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \n \nMichaela von Habsburg was born in Würzburg\, Bavaria\, the third child of Otto von Habsburg\, the Crown Prince of Austria\, and Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen. She was raised at her parents’ home in exile\, Villa Austria\, in Pöcking\, Bavaria. She is a granddaughter of the last Austrian emperor\, Charles I and Empress Zita of Bourbon-Parme. However\, she does not use her ancestral titles as a member of the House of Habsburg\, since the use of such titles is illegal in Hungary and Austria. She is one of the last members of the Habsburg European house. She is not only a princess but also a world-renowned jewelry designer. \nJames Longo (left) is an emeritus professor of Education at Washington & Jefferson College in Washington\, Pennsylvania. He earned his doctorate at Harvard University and served as the Distinguished Chair of the Gender and Women’s Studies Program at Alpen-Adrian University in Klagenfurt\, Austria. He is the author of eight books including Hitler and the Habsburgs: The Führer’s Vendetta Against the Austrian Royals. He interviewed the children and cousins of Archduke Otto and royal historians in the US and abroad. His other books include Isabel Orleans Braganza: The Brazilian Princess Who Freed the Slaves\, and From Classroom to White House: Presidents and First Ladies as Students and Teachers.   \nFelix Etienne-Edouard Pfeifle (right) is an architectural designer who interviewed Otto von Habsburg after inheriting a stack of Habsburg’s letters. Pfeifle’s quest to meet Habsburg and return the letters is documented in the film Felix Austria! He graduated cum laude from UC-Berkeley and was the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship at the University of Vienna. In 2005 he founded the interdisciplinary architectural design firm The Felix Effect\, whose portfolio spans a wide range of connoisseur-level projects in high-end hospitality and residential work. He has taught at the New School for Social Research and served as Board President of the Fulbright Association (Los Angeles) and the Los Angeles Bach Festival.  \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/otto-von-habsburg-saved-by-sousa-mendes/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Shared Legacies: The African-American and Jewish Civil Rights Alliance
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nThis program is about African-Americans and Jewish-Americans who have been involved in each other’s historic struggles. Meet Susannah Heschel\, daughter of the Jewish civil rights hero Abraham Joshua Heschel.  And meet Alexis Scott\, daughter of the African-American liberator and Holocaust educator William Alexander Scott III. The discussion will be moderated by the filmmaker Shari Rogers\, whose documentary Shared Legacies will be shown.\n \nxxxxx \nWATCH THE TRAILER\n \n  \n\nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ January 7-10\, watch the film Shared Legacies on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, January 9 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of guests.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \n \nSusannah Heschel (left) is the Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor and chair of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College. Her scholarship focuses on religious thought in Germany during the 19th and 20th centuries\, the history of antisemitism\, and Jewish feminism. Her books include Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus; The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany; Jüdischer Islam: Islam und jüdisch-deutsche Selbstbestimmung; The Muslim Reception of European Orientalism; and forthcoming with Sarah Imhoff\, Jewish Studies and the Woman Question. A Guggenheim Fellow\, she has received five honorary doctorates and grants from the Ford Foundation\, Carnegie Foundation\, National Humanities Center and Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. \n \nDr. Shari L. Rogers (right) is the Producer and Director of Shared Legacies. She is a clinical therapist and social activist whose work encompasses movie production\, writing\, educational programming\, curriculum development and public speaking. She is the president and founder of Spill The Honey\, a Michigan-based organization committed to promoting human dignity and advancing public knowledge of the Holocaust and the Civil Rights Movement. Spill The Honey events bring Jewish and African American high school students together to work on joint educational projects. Dr. Rogers is a trustee of the Institute for the Study of Global Anti-Semitism and Policy (ISGAP). \n \nAlexis Scott (left) is a newspaper journalist\, executive and community leader. After nearly 17 years as publisher of the Atlanta Daily World\, she was part of the executive team that opened the Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta. She was a commentator on The Georgia Gang\, a week-in-review program on state and local politics. Her honors include induction into the Women’s Hall of Fame of the Atlanta Business League; the Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau; the Atlanta Press Club; and the Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University. She has received awards from the Georgia Legislative Black Caucus and the The King Center. She is currently writing a memoir and is a co-writer of a screenplay\, “Beech Tree Forest\,” based on her father’s Army experiences during World War II. \nxxxxx \nTickets are by donation of any amount ($18 minimum suggested\, tax-deductible). Season Tickets for all 2022 Sunday programs are also available.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/shared-legacies/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:"Mrs. Judy" - The Canadian Woman Who Secretly Rescued the Jews of Syria
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nOn this Chanukah program we honor Judy Feld Carr\, a woman of exceptional courage and valor who chose to make a difference. Over a 28-year period\, she secretly brought to freedom 3228 Jews prohibited from emigrating from Syria. Working with smugglers and bribing government officials\, she removed most of that community from veritable bondage. In addition\, she clandestinely smuggled out of that country priceless ancient articles of Jewish worship. Until Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the Israeli Intelligence Organizations publicly acclaimed her activities\, the world\, including the Jewish world\, had no inkling of this Canadian Jewish woman’s covert life. She is the subject of historian Dr. Harold Troper’s The Rescuer\, now in its second edition. The rescue was the best-kept secret in the Jewish world. \nxxxxx \n“Her remarkable story stands as a testament to what one person can achieve when compassion is harnessed to determination.” – Harold Troper \nxxxxx \nLEARN HER INCREDIBLE STORY\nxxxxx\n \n  \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ December 3-6\, watch a documentary film about Judy Feld Carr on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, December 5 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program featuring a conversation between Judy Feld Carr and Shulamit Reinharz hosted by Broadway star Samantha Massell and with live musical interludes. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE MASTER OF CEREMONIES\nxxxxx \nSamantha Massell is a New York based actress and singer who has appeared on Broadway\, on television\, in movies\, in the cabaret scene\, and in commercials. She was last seen on Broadway as Hodel in the acclaimed revival of Fiddler on the Roof. She has originated lead roles in many world premiere musicals including Steven Schwartz and Charles’ Strouse’s Rags at The Goodspeed Opera (Connecticut Critics Circle Award for Best Actress)\, The Flamingo Kid at Hartford Stage\, and Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame at La Jolla Playhouse and Paper Mill Playhouse. On the small screen\, Samantha has held recurring roles on Mr. Mercedes and Chicago Fire and guest starred on NCIS: New Orleans\, The Good Fight\, and Elementary. BFA\, University of Michigan\, Phi Beta Kappa. @smassellsings www.samanthamassell.com \nxxxxx \nMEET THE INTERVIEWER\nxxxxx \n \nDr. Shulamit Reinharz was born in Amsterdam and grew up in the United States with long stays in Israel. She earned her B.A. from Barnard College and her Ph.D. from Brandeis University\, both in sociology. She is the author of thirteen books\, including American Jewish Women and the Zionist Enterprise (Brandeis\, 2005); Observing the Observer (Oxford\, 2011); and One Hundred Years of Kibbutz Life (Transaction\, 2011) and is completing Surviving Holland\, 1939-1947\, a book about her father’s Holocaust experience. In 2017\, she retired from Brandeis and became Professor Emerita. She is a sought after speaker and interviewer and has participated in several Sunday programs of the Sousa Mendes Foundation. \nxxxxx \nMUSICAL GUESTS\nxxxxx \nAsher Shasho Levy (right) is a Syrian Jewish musician and scholar who seeks to spread the beauty of the Sephardic tradition. He performs and teaches internationally and is the founder of the Aram Soba Ensemble\, a group dedicated to the musical heritage of Syrian Jewry. Studying with elders and scholars in the Sephardic community of Los Angeles\, Asher has amassed a large repertoire of liturgical music\, secular song in Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic\, as well as piyyutim\, pizmonim and baqashot\, the religious poetry and song of the Jewish Middle East. \n \nIntertwining many sounds of world music\, Bruce Burger (left) is RebbeSoul. His music finds the crossroads between reggae and klezmer\, winding and weaving through rock\, pop\, jazz and funk. His Fringe of Blue album combines traditional Jewish songs with original compositions and is one of the best-selling Jewish albums of all time. Currently\, he is producing artists in the Middle East\, the US\, UK\, and South Africa. One project is with Shlomit Levi\, star Yemenite singer. Their debut album\, The Seal of Solomon\, was released in 2015 and has been broadcast on NPR and in Canada\, Israel and Yemen. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/mrs-judy/
CATEGORIES:Award Ceremony,Concert,Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Our Hebrews: The Tuscan Mountain Village that Rescued its Jewish Population
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK • 8 PM TUSCANY • 9 PM JERUSALEM\nxxxxx \nLittle Jerusalem: that is how the locals refer to the town of Pitigliano in southern Tuscany\, because of its striking resemblance to Israel’s ancient city. Through the medieval stone walls\, the fascinating story of centuries of harmonious co-existence between Jews and Christians is told for the first time\, including the heroic acts performed by the locals during the Holocaust. \nxxxxx \nWATCH THE TRAILER\n  \n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ November 19-22\, rent/watch Naor Meningher‘s short film Our Hebrews ($6.99) on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, November 21 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of guests.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \nNaor Meningher is an Israeli filmmaker and content creator who has been traveling to the Tuscan village of Pitigliano with his family since childhood\, and he is the first person to document its ancient Jewish history. He graduated from Steve Tisch Film School at Tel Aviv University in 2016\, and his short films The Rat’s Dilemma\,  An Old Score and Our Hebrews were screened in dozens of festivals and won several awards. Naor is the co-host of the Two Nice Jewish Boys Podcast and the creator of the Italy Guy vlog on Youtube. \n \nDebora Siegel is a high school teacher and a pedagogical advisor at the Hebrew University Teaching Certificate Program. She is also a ceramist with her own pottery studio. Her grandfather Azeglio Baruch Servi was the leader of the Jewish community of Pitigliano\, Italy\, and her aunt Edda Servi Machlin authored an Italian Jewish cookbook and a memoir about growing up in fascist Italy. Born in the United States\, Debora lives in Israel. \n \nDr. Mordecai Paldiel led the Righteous Among the Nations Department at Yad Vashem from 1982-2007. His books include The Path of the Righteous\, Sheltering the Jews\, Saving the Jews\, Diplomat Heroes of the Holocaust\, Saving One’s Own: Jewish Rescuers During the Holocaust and The Righteous Among the Nations. He teaches at Touro College and serves on the Board of the Sousa Mendes Foundation. Thanks to his efforts\, there is now a square named for Aristides de Sousa Mendes as well as a street named for Raoul Wallenberg\, both in Jerusalem. He is a member of the B’nai Brith committee in Israel honoring Jewish rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/our-hebrews/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:The Legacy of Aristides
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\n7 PM LISBON • 8 PM PARIS\nxxxxx \nThe documentary film The Legacy of Aristides asks the question: What is the legacy of Aristides de Sousa Mendes today? We are presenting a bilingual dialogue with the filmmaker\, Patrick Séraudie. He will be in conversation with two of the subjects of the film: Gerald Mendes\, grandson of Aristides de Sousa Mendes\, and Cookie Fischer\, whose mother was a Sousa Mendes visa recipient. \nxxxxx \nWATCH THE TRAILER\n \n  \n\nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ November 12-15\, watch Patrick Séraudie‘s film The Legacy of Aristides on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, November 14 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of guests.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \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 \nJeannette V. (“Cookie”) Fischer has lived and worked globally as a teacher\, trainer\, coach\, and consultant working on multilingual and transdisciplinary projects.  Born in Peru of European parents\, she has lived and worked in the US\, Asia\, Europe\, Mexico\, South America\, and Israel. Cookie’s mother\, Ada van den Bergh Fischer\, escaped from Bayonne on June 22\, 1940 on a sardine schooner with a visa issued by Aristides de Sousa Mendes. Cookie has been involved with our Foundation since 2017 retracing her mother’s escape on the “Journey to the Road to Freedom\,” a trip that follows the footsteps of Aristides de Sousa Mendes and the refugees he saved. \n \nPatrick Séraudie is the film director of The Legacy of Aristides. He has devoted his long filmmaking career to telling the story of the impact and legacy of Nazi aggression and occupation on France and its citizens. His documentary films on this subject include\, among other titles\, Au bout de la nuit\, Une vie avec Oradour\, Le silence et la douleur\, Sortie des ombres. and Les guardiens de la mémoire. He is the founder and director of Pyramide Productions\, a film production company established in 1988 and based in Limoges\, France.  Many of his films have been shown on French television. \n\nxxxxx\nPLEASE NOTE: Registration for this program is closed.\nxxxxx\n\n\n xxxxx\n This program is presented in partnership with the Pyramide Production company.\nxxxxx
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/the-legacy-of-aristides/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:My Herzl
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK • 9 PM JERUSALEM\nxxxxx \nAn intimate and unexpected documentary about the private life of Theodor Herzl. To Eli Tal-El\, a Jerusalem documentary filmmaker\, Herzl is a washed-out icon. In the eyes of his Canadian brother-in-law David Matlow\, one of the world’s most avid collectors of Herzl memorabilia\, Herzl is an inspiring superstar. An unconventional documentary\, this film is a personal look at the man who launched a nation.  Joining the panel will be Herzl’s biographer Derek Penslar and sociologist Shulamit Reinharz. \nxxxxx \nWATCH THE TRAILER\n\n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ November 5-8\, watch Eli Tal-El‘s film My Herzl on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, November 7 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of guests.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \nDavid Matlow is a corporate and private equity partner at Goodmans LLP in Toronto and owns the world’s largest private collection of Theodor Herzl memorabilia. Through his website and weekly column\, David uses his collection to inform people about the history of the State of Israel\, so as to inspire them to continue to work towards the betterment of the Jewish people and our homeland. My Herzl\, made with Jerusalem filmmaker Eli Tal-El\, is part of his Herzl Project whose goal is to demonstrate Herzl’s continued relevance hoping to motivate people to keep Herzl’s dream alive\, and work towards its completion. David is a member of the board of the Ontario Jewish Archives and the Center for Israel Education. \n \nShulamit Reinharz is Professor Emerita of Sociology at Brandeis University. Born in Amsterdam\, she grew up in the United States with long stays in Israel. She earned her B.A. from Barnard College and her Ph.D. from Brandeis University\, both in sociology. She is the author of thirteen books\, including American Jewish Women and the Zionist Enterprise (Brandeis\, 2005); Observing the Observer (Oxford\, 2011); and One Hundred Years of Kibbutz Life (Transaction\, 2011) and is completing Surviving Holland\, 1939-1947\, a book about her father’s Holocaust experience. She is a sought after speaker and interviewer and has participated in several Sunday programs of the Sousa Mendes Foundation. \n \nDerek Penslar is the William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History at Harvard University. He previously taught at Indiana University\, the University of Toronto\, and the University of Oxford\, where he was the inaugural holder of the Stanley Lewis Chair in Israel Studies. His most recent book\, Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader\, won the 2020 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for History. Derek is currently completing a book titled Zionism: An Emotional State and starting work on a global history of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Derek is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada\, President of the American Academy for Jewish Research\, and an honorary fellow of St. Anne’s College\, Oxford. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/my-herzl/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Jesse Owens and the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nJesse Owens\, the son of Alabama sharecroppers\, was the Olympic champion who defeated Nazi ideology in Hitler’s stadium. He later served on the Board of the National Conference of Christians and Jews. Meet his grandson\, Stuart Owen Rankin\, who will be in dialogue with Lori Weintrob\, historian and Director of the Wagner College Holocaust Center. Representing the International Olympics Committee on the panel is Anita L. DeFrantz\, a US Olympic medalist and Vice-President of the IOC. \nxxxxx \nWATCH THE TRAILER\n\n \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ October 29-November 1\, watch the film More than Gold: Jesse Owens and the 1936 Berlin Olympics on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, October 31 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of guests. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \n \nStuart Owen Rankin is the grandson of Olympic legend Jesse Owens. He is the incoming Executive Director of the Jesse Owens Foundation\, taking over that role from his mother Marlene Owens Rankin. He was a member of the Chicago Olympic Committee in 2008-09 and has worked in leadership development at Amazon since 2012. He earned a BA in Advertising/Copywriting from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and has completed his course work toward a Masters in Intercultural Relations and Communication from Antioch University. He enjoys playing basketball\, working out\, skiing\, and playing the guitar. Photography has been a strong hobby of Stuart’s since 1980\, and he loves a wide range of music and movies. \n \nDr. Lori Weintrob (left) is Professor of History and founding director of the Wagner College Holocaust Center\, Staten Island\, New York. She received her B.A. from Princeton University and her M.A. and Ph.D. from UCLA. She is co-editor of Beyond Bystanders: Educational Leadership for a Human Culture in a Globalizing Reality. She is currently editing Eyewitness to History: Documents of the Holocaust and completing a project on women resistance leaders in the Holocaust. She is co-curator of the permanent exhibit on “Rescue and Resistance” at the Wagner College Holocaust Center. As director of the Holocaust Center\, she has connected over 5\,000 youth in New York and New Jersey to Holocaust survivors. \n \nAnita L. DeFrantz is Vice-President of the International Olympic Committee\, an Olympic medalist in rowing and the author of My Olympic Life: A Memoir. Named by Newsweek as one of the “150 Women Who Shake the World” and Sports Illustrated as one of the “101 Most Influential Minorities in Sports\,” DeFrantz has used her platform in the Olympic Movement to advance fairness in sports. She’s fought sexual harassment\, helped change outdated gender verification rules\, pushed forward the introduction of women’s events\, including Olympic soccer and softball teams\, cracked down on doping\, influenced new eligibility requirements\, and more. With unwavering tenacity\, she even took on President Jimmy Carter when he used Olympic athletes as leverage in the Cold War. \n \nRobert Jacobvitz\, who will moderate the program\, serves on the Executive Committee of the Sousa Mendes Foundation and chairs its Advisory Council. For ten years he directed the Jewish Community Relations Council of the Greater East Bay\, and it was in this capacity in the 1980’s that he began championing the cause of Aristides de Sousa Mendes. In 2005 he received the Aristides de Sousa Mendes Humanitarian Medal from the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation. He wrote a seminal article on Aristides de Sousa Mendes that can be read at this link.x \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/jesse-owens/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:The Catcher Was a Spy — The Moe Berg Story
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nMorris “Moe” Berg was a Jewish American catcher and coach in Major League Baseball\, who later served as a spy for the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. A graduate of Princeton University and Columbia Law School\, Berg spoke numerous languages and read ten newspapers a day. His reputation as an intellectual was fueled by his successful appearances as a contestant on the radio quiz show Information Please. Berg was sent by the US government to determine whether the German physicist Werner Heisenberg was developing an atomic bomb for Nazi Germany\, and Berg was authorized to shoot Heisenberg if he had definitive proof in the affirmative. Meet Nicholas Dawidoff\, author of the best-selling book on which the motion picture was based. He will be in conversation with the well-known journalist and podcaster Jacob Goldstein. \nxxxxx \nWATCH THE TRAILER\n \n  \n\nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ October 15-18\, watch The Catcher Was a Spy on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, October 17 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nxxxxx \n \nNicholas Dawidoff (right) is the author of the national bestseller The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg on which the feature film was based. His biographical memoir of his economist grandfather\, The Fly Swatter: Portrait of an Exceptional Character\, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His memoir\, The Crowd Sounds Happy\, won the Kenneth Johnson Book Award for outstanding literary writing about mental illness. Collision Low Crossers was a finalist for a PEN America book award and was called “an instant classic” by The New York Times. He has been a Henry Luce Scholar\, a Guggenheim Fellow\, a Berlin Prize fellow of the American Academy\, an Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at Princeton University\, and is a Davenport Fellow at Yale University. His articles appear in The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine.  \nJacob Goldstein (left) is an executive producer at Pushkin Industries\, an independent podcast company. Previously he spent more than a decade as co-host of the Planet Money podcast. He is the author of Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing\, which the New York Times called “a history of currency full of astonishing tales you might tell a friend in the pub.” Jacob worked as a staff writer at the Wall Street Journal\, the Miami Herald\, and the Bozeman Daily Chronicle. He has done stories for The New York Times Magazine\, This American Life\, Morning Edition and All Things Considered. He has a bachelor’s degree in English from Stanford University and a master’s in journalism from Columbia University.  He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two daughters. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/catcher-spy/
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Safer in Silence
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK • 8 PM PARIS\nxxxxx \nSafer in Silence is a personal journey made over thirty years and across five continents. Corinne Niox Chateau searches for the truth of her family’s Polish past in order to understand her mother’s distance. Uncovering her family’s hidden Jewish roots\, Corinne is pulled into a complex story revealing startling truths that force her to face the patterns of hiding and secrecy that have profoundly affected her life. Corinne’s grandfather\, the Polish diplomat Clement Skalski\, was a close friend and colleague of Aristides and Cesar de Sousa Mendes\, and it was Aristides’ visa that saved the Skalski family and enabled them to escape to America. Meet the filmmaker\, who will be in dialogue with the celebrated film historian Annette Insdorf. \nxxxxx \nWATCH THE TRAILER\n \n  \n\nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ October 1-4\, watch Corinne Niox Chateau‘s film Safer in Silence on your home device (film rental $6.99). A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, October 3 at 2 PM US Eastern Time\, tune into the discussion with our distinguished panel.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nxxxxx \nCorinne Niox Chateau (left) was born in New York City of French and Polish parents. She attended Barnard College and the graduate film program at NYU and was a fellow at the American Film Institute. She studied acting with Stella Adler and Lee Strasberg and has appeared in feature films\, on television\, on and off Broadway\, and has worked with renowned directors such as Elia Kazan and Arthur Penn. She has taught acting in the graduate film department at NYU\, in the Actors Studio MFA program at the New School\, and at Pace University. She is a lifetime member of the Actors Studio and the Ensemble Studio Theatre. She is the author of The Road to Cali\, about the adoption of her son in the Republic of Georgia\, and the play The Sun Shines East. \n \nAnnette Insdorf (right)\, an internationally renowned film scholar\, is Professor of Film at Columbia University’s School of the Arts\, and Moderator of the 92nd Street Y’s Reel Pieces series\, where she has interviewed hundreds of celebrities. She is the author of Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust (with a foreword by Elie Wiesel) and Cinematic Overtures: How to Read Opening Scenes.  Born in Paris to Polish Holocaust survivors\, she received her Ph.D. from Yale University\, where she taught for over ten years. She was honored by the 2021 Telluride Film Festival with its Special Medallion. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/safer-in-silence/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210926
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210927
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SUMMARY:Albie Sachs and the New South Africa
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK • 8 PM CAPE TOWN\nxxxxx \nAlbert “Albie” Louis Sachs is a South African attorney and activist who worked closely with Nelson Mandela in the struggle for democracy and human rights. After twice being detained for his anti-apartheid activities he was blown up by a bomb planted in his car by South African security services. He survived the assassination attempt but lost his right arm and vision in one eye. He played a key role in writing South Africa’s Constitution in the 1990s and served for fifteen years on its Supreme Court.  Meet this Jewish hero of South African democracy who will be with us in person! \nxxxxx \nWATCH THE TRAILER\n \n  \n\nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ September 24-27\, watch Abby Ginzberg‘s film Soft Vengeance on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, September 26 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of guests.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \n \nOn turning six\, during World War II\, Albie Sachs received a card from his father expressing the wish that he would grow up to be a soldier in the fight for liberation. His career in human rights activism started at the age of seventeen\, when as a second year law student at the University of Cape Town\, he took part in the Defiance of Unjust Laws Campaign. Three years later he attended the Congress of the People at Kliptown where the Freedom Charter was adopted. He started practice as an advocate at the Cape Bar aged 21. The bulk of his work involved defending people charged under racist statutes and repressive security laws. Many faced the death sentence. He himself was raided by the security police\, subjected to banning orders restricting his movement and eventually placed in solitary confinement without trial for two prolonged spells of detention. In 1966 he went into exile. After spending eleven years studying and teaching law in England he worked for a further eleven years in Mozambique as law professor and legal researcher. In 1988 he was blown up by a bomb placed in his car in Maputo by South African security agents\, losing an arm and the sight of an eye. During the 1980s working closely with Oliver Tambo\, leader of the ANC in exile\, he helped draft the organisation’s Code of Conduct\, as well as its statutes. After recovering from the bomb he devoted himself full-time to preparations for a new democratic Constitution for South Africa. In 1990 he returned home and as a member of the Constitutional Committee and the National Executive of the ANC took an active part in the negotiations which led to South Africa becoming a constitutional democracy. After the first democratic election in 1994 he was appointed by President Nelson Mandela to serve on the newly established Constitutional Court. In addition to his work on the Court\, he has travelled to many countries sharing South African experience in healing divided societies. He has also been engaged in the sphere of art and architecture\, and played an active role in the development of the Constitutional Court building and its art collection on the site of the Old Fort Prison in Johannesburg. \nAbby Ginzberg (right) is the filmmaker of Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa. 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.  \n \nDr. Shulamit Reinharz (left)\, who will moderate\, was born in Amsterdam and grew up in the United States with long stays in Israel. She earned her B.A. from Barnard College and her Ph.D. from Brandeis University\, both in sociology. She is the author of thirteen books\, including American Jewish Women and the Zionist Enterprise (Brandeis\, 2005); Observing the Observer (Oxford\, 2011); and One Hundred Years of Kibbutz Life (Transaction\, 2011) and is completing Surviving Holland\, 1939-1947\, a book about her father’s Holocaust experience. Dr. Reinharz is a popular lecturer who speaks frequently on a variety of topics. In 2017\, she retired from Brandeis and became Professor Emerita. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/albie-sachs-and-the-new-south-africa/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:The Albanian Code
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK • 9 PM JERUSALEM\nxxxxx \nThe Albanian Code from award-winning Israeli filmmaker Yael Katzir tells the little-known story of how thousands of Jewish refugees in Albania were rescued in World War II. Annie Altaraz\, who was saved there having escaped from Yugoslavia\, decides to return to say thank you. This voyage is full of surprises\, discovering how a nation bound by its moral code saved refugees and recognizing Albania’s unique wartime role in rescuing the persecuted. \nxxxxx \nSEE THE TRAILER\nxxxxx \n\n \n  \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ August 20-23\, watch Yael Katzir‘s film The Albanian Code (film rental $8.99) on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, August 22 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of guests.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \n \nAward-winning Israeli filmmaker Yael Katzir has produced and aired over 120 films on Israeli television. She holds degrees in history and literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and UCLA and in broadcasting and film from Boston University\, In addition to Shores of Hope\, which we presented in 2020\, her films include My Grandmother had a Gun\, The Albanian Code\, Violins in Wartime\, Praying in Her Own Voice\, Yiddish Theater — A Love Story\, Shivah for my Mother and Company Jasmine. She is the author of Commando-Mom\, Diary of a Mother of an Infantry Soldier (1994).  She is a Professor of film and history at the Art School of Beit Berl Academic College and is the Principal of Katzir Productions. \nSaimir A. Lolja (left) is an expert on Albania’s role in the rescue of Jews during the Holocaust and was a consultant on Yael Katzir‘s film The Albanian Code. He was a Chemical Engineering Faculty member at the University of Tirana\, Albania and more recently in Canada at Ryerson University and the University of Toronto. He submitted to Yad Vashem a long list of Jews rescued by Albanians that he personally compiled. His article “The Albanian Besa – The Golden Rule” appeared in The Tirana Times. He has presented during Holocaust Education Week in Ontario\, Canada and contributed to conferences in France\, Canada\, and Albania. He is currently working on another documentary film on Albania’s rescue of Jews during World War II. \n \nDr. Mordecai Paldiel (right) headed the Righteous Among the Nations Department at Yad Vashem from 1982-2007. His books include The Path of the Righteous\, Sheltering the Jews\, Saving the Jews\, Diplomat Heroes of the Holocaust\, Saving One’s Own: Jewish Rescuers During the Holocaust and The Righteous Among the Nations. He teaches at Stern College and Touro College and serves on the Board of the Sousa Mendes Foundation. Thanks to his efforts\, there is now a square named for Aristides de Sousa Mendes as well as a street named for Raoul Wallenberg\, both in Jerusalem. He is a member of the B’nai Brith committee in Israel honoring Jewish rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/the-albanian-code/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Woman of Valor\, Mildred Fish-Harnack
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK • 8 PM BERLIN\nxxxxx \nMildred Fish-Harnack was the only American citizen executed on the personal orders of Adolf Hitler. Born in Milwaukee\, she was a member of the anti-Nazi resistance group in Berlin known as the Red Orchestra.  Learn about this brave woman of valor whose story remained hidden for decades and is now coming to light. \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ August 6-9\, watch the PBS documentary Wisconsin’s Nazi Resistance — The Mildred Fish-Harnack Story on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, August 8 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of guests.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\n. \n \nAnne Nelson is a prize-winning author who has written extensively about human rights and freedom of expression. Her 2017 book\, Suzanne’s Children: A Daring Rescue in Nazi Paris\, told the story of Suzanne Spaak and her extensive network to rescue Jewish children from deportation to Auschwitz. It was a finalist in the National Jewish Book Awards. Her previous book\, Red Orchestra\, described a leading anti-Nazi resistance network in Berlin\, and was an Editors’ Choice at The New York Times. Her current work\, Shadow Network\, deals with the political crisis in the United States today. \nStefan Roloff is an independent artist and filmmaker whose artwork and installations are shown worldwide in museums and galleries. In 1997 he began to work on his documentary film The Red Orchestra. The film is a portrait of his late father\, Helmut Roloff\, an anti-Nazi resistance hero. It was nominated for Best Foreign Film in 2005 by the Women Critics Circle. For the first time it told the true story of the “Red Orchestra\,” a resistance group that was slandered during the cold war by secret services and historians as a Communist spy network. For this film\, Roloff received a New York City Media Arts grant from the Jerome Foundation. He also wrote a book in German\, Die Rote Kapelle (Ullstein\, 2002). Photo: Eva Mueller \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed. \n\n 
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/woman-of-valor-mildred-fish-harnack/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Abba Kovner\, Hero and Witness
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\n7 PM LISBON • 9 PM JERUSALEM\nxxxxx \nAbba Kovner was the leader of the Partisan resistance fighters in Vilna during World War II. He made aliyah in 1947 and became a celebrated Israeli poet. In 1961 he was a star witness during the trial of Adolf Eichmann. He is one of the great Jewish figures of the twentieth century.\n \nxxxxx \nSEE THE TRAILER\nxxxxx \n\n \n  \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ July 30-August 2\, watch Aviva Kempner‘s celebrated film Partisans of Vilna on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, August 1 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of guests.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \n \nMichael Kovner is the son of Abba and Vitka Kovner and is a celebrated Israeli painter. He was born in Kibbutz Ein Hahoresh in 1948. During his military service he fought alongside Benjamin Netanyahu\, Ehud Barak and other future national leaders. In 1972 he moved to New York to study art with Philip Guston at the New York Studio School\, returning in 1975. In 2015 the Abba Kovner Museum opened at Givat Haviva\, and Michael worked to restore the office and living room of Abba Kovner. He wrote and illustrated the graphic novel Ezekiel’s World\, based on the life and work of Abba Kovner.  Michael says of his father: “My father was a resistance fighter\, a partisan\, a poet\, and an historian. His many-sided personality exerted a strong influence on all who surrounded him.” \nProf. Dina Porat is the author of The Fall of a Sparrow\, the Life and Times of Abba Kovner (Stanford University Press\, 2010\, winner of National Jewish Book Award)\, Vengeance and Recompense are Mine — the Yishuv\, the Holocaust and Abba Kovner’s Avengers Group (2019) and numerous other books. She is Professor Emeritus of Modern Jewish History at the Department of Jewish History\, Head of the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry\, and holds the Alfred P. Slaner Chair for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism at Tel Aviv University. Since 2011 she has served as Chief Historian of Yad Vashem.  \n \nDr. Mordecai Paldiel\, who will moderate\, headed the Righteous Among the Nations Department at Yad Vashem from 1982-2007. His books include The Path of the Righteous\, Sheltering the Jews\, Diplomat Heroes of the Holocaust\, Saving One’s Own: Jewish Rescuers During the Holocaust and The Righteous Among the Nations. He teaches at Stern College and Touro College and serves on the Board of the Sousa Mendes Foundation. Thanks to his efforts\, there is now a square named for Aristides de Sousa Mendes as well as a street named for Raoul Wallenberg\, both in Jerusalem. He is a member of the B’nai Brith committee in Israel honoring Jewish rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed. \nxxxxx \nThis program is co-presented with the Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/abba-kovner-hero-and-witness/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Salud y Shalom: American Jews in the Spanish Civil War
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nIn the 1930s\, nearly 3\,000 Americans embarked for Europe to join the democratically elected Spanish Republic in its effort to repel a military coup led by Francisco Franco. Franco had the support of Nazi Germany and fascist Italy.  Nearly one-third of the Americans who went to Spain to fight fascism were Jews. This program presents their story. \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\nxxxxx \n⇒ July 23-26\, watch the film The Good Fight on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, July 25 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the discussion with our distinguished panelists.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \n \nDr. Gina Herrmann\, who will moderate\, is Professor of Romance Languages and Judaic Studies at the University of Oregon. She is the author of Written in Red: The Communist Memoir in Spain and editor and co-author of Spain\, The Second World War and the Holocaust. Her new research focuses on cultural memory and literary engagement with French concentration camps of WWII and the mosaic of victims and administrators whose experiences in these camps constitute a laboratory of 20th century migrant and refugee internment. She is a member of the ALBA Executive Committee. \n \nDr. Joseph Butwin is recently retired from the English Department at the University of Washington where he also taught courses on Jewish-American Literature and Culture at the University’s Stroum Center for Jewish Studies. In the early 1990s he interviewed 40 Jewish veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. He is currently preparing transcripts of these conversations for publication in Spain and the United States under the title Salud y Shalom: American Jews in the Spanish Civil War\, 1936-1939. Selections from these interviews along with audio cuts can be seen and heard at this link. \n \nNancy Wallach is an award-winning art educator who will speak about her father\, Hy Wallach\, a volunteer fighter in Spain who served for many years as the treasurer\, as well as corresponding secretary\, of the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. She is a member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA) Board of Governors. At a program organized by the Burgos Anti-Fascist Committee around the exhumations of the mass graves and prisons in Burgos\, Spain\, she provided testimony as to her own father’s incarceration at the fascist concentration camp for International Brigade prisoners at San Pedro de Cardena.  \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed. \n\nxxxxx \nThis program is co-presented with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA).
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/salud-y-shalom/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210718
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210719
DTSTAMP:20260421T152430
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SUMMARY:Let my people go! The Rescue of Soviet Jewry
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nThe rescue of Soviet Jewry in the 1970s and 80s was a vast project involving grassroots initiatives working in partnership with the organized Jewish community and government officials. Meet Jerry Goodman\, the founder and Executive Director of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry\, and other activists who struggled on behalf of refuseniks trapped behind the Iron Curtain.  \nxxxxx \nWATCH THE TRAILER\n  \nTHE SCHEDULE\nxxxxx \n⇒ July 16-19\, (optional) rent/watch the film Refusenik on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, July 18 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the discussion with our distinguished panelists.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANELISTS\nxxxxx \nJerry Goodman\, left\, was the founding executive director of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry\, a national agency established to coordinate the grassroots efforts of American Jews on behalf of refuseniks. He co-established the organization in 1971 and directed it until 1988. Goodman acted as a consultant to the U.S. Congress in creating the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe and helped the passing of the Jackson-Vanik Amendment\, a 1974 provision in United States federal law intended to restrict U.S. trade relations with USSR. He was one of the coordinators of the 1987 Freedom Sunday for Soviet Jews\, the largest human rights national manifestation for Soviet Jews in the history of the Soviet Jewry movement. \n \nBorn in the Soviet Union\, Semyon Pinkhasov\, right\, immigrated to the United States in 1976. After his arrival in the United States\, he coordinated the campaign to rescue the famous pianist and Soviet refusenik Vladimir Feltsman. A championship fencer\, Pinkhasov was the Fencing Coach for U.S. Pan American\, Olympic\, and Maccabiah Teams. Later he became a documentary filmmaker specializing in stories of individuals who act heroically in the face of totalitarianism. One such film is With God Against Man telling the story of the Holocaust rescuer Aristides de Sousa Mendes. His inspiration derives from the interplay between the various aspects of his background\, including sports\, politics and the arts.  For more information see www.semyonpinkhasov.com. \nAttorney Dorit Perry serves on the HIAS Board of Directors. She served as Chief Legal Counsel for HIAS in Rome in 1989-90 and assisted in the mass migration of 42\,000 Soviet and Iranian Jewish refugees. She has practiced international and corporate law and and led global initiatives at Intel Corporation. She has served on the Adjunct Faculty of Santa Clara University Law School and Leavey Business School. She has been appointed to the California State Bar Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution and is a Fulbright Specialist. She is a graduate of Boalt Hall Law School at the University of California\, Berkeley. \nRobert Jacobvitz\, who will moderate\, serves on the Sousa Mendes Foundation Board and chairs its Advisory Council. In the 1980s he traveled to Russia to meet refuseniks on behalf of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry. At that time he directed the Jewish Community Relations Council of the Greater East Bay\, and it was in this capacity that he also began championing the cause of Aristides de Sousa Mendes. In 2005 he received the Aristides de Sousa Mendes Humanitarian Medal from the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation. He wrote a seminal article on Aristides de Sousa Mendes that can be read at this link. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed. \nxxxxx \nThis program is co-presented with HIAS. \n \nxxxsss
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/let-my-people-go-the-rescue-of-soviet-jewry/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210711
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SUMMARY:Weapons of the Spirit
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nPierre Sauvage‘s acclaimed film Weapons of the Spirit tells the dramatic true story of the area of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon\, France\, where as many as 5\,000 Jews may have been sheltered by some 5\,000 Christians during World War II. This is a story Sauvage was born to tell: born in Le Chambon as a hidden child in 1944\, he returned to the village as an adult to probe and recount this unique “conspiracy of goodness.” \nxxxxx \n“Astonishing. Olympian. Emotionally wrenching. Bulging with profound questions of morality\, responsibility and religion.”\n– Desmond Ryan\, The Philadelphia Inquirer \n“An absolutely extraordinary story. Could not be more timely… and yet in a hundred years it is likely to be timely still.” \n– Tom Shales\, The Washington Post \n“An inquiry into the nature of goodness and a personal odyssey.  Moving and provocative.  Enormously uplifting.  What an extraordinary story.”\n– David Ansen\, Newsweek \nxxxxx \nTHE TRAILER\nxxxxx \n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ July 9-12\, watch Pierre Sauvage‘s film Weapons of the Spirit on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, July 11 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program to watch an interview of the filmmaker by Bill Moyers from the 1980s along with highlights from a recent interview.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nTHE FILMMAKER\n  \nPierre Sauvage\, an Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker\, is one of a pioneering handful of experts on rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust — “righteous Gentiles” — and contends that they still have much to teach us. Born into hiding in Le Chambon\, France\, Sauvage was four when he and his parents moved to New York City in 1948\, his parents choosing to hide the fact that they were Jewish. Described by Tablet magazine as “a filmmaker of rare moral perception\,” Sauvage is the President of the Chambon Foundation. In addition to Weapons of the Spirit\, his films include Not Idly By — Peter Bergson\, America and the Holocaust\, Yiddish: the Mother Tongue\, and We Were There: Christians and the Holocaust.  \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed. \nxxxxx \nThis program is presented in partnership with the Chambon Foundation.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/weapons-of-the-spirit/
CATEGORIES:Film Screening
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210613
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210614
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SUMMARY:The Rescuers
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\n7 PM LONDON • 9 PM JERUSALEM\nxxxxx \nWhat is the mystery of goodness?  This question is at the core of the film The Rescuers by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Michael King who examines the stories of a dozen diplomat rescuers during the Holocaust. The film follows Stephanie Nyombayire\, a young Rwandan anti-genocide activist\, and Sir Martin Gilbert\, the renowned Holocaust historian\, as they travel across 15 countries and three continents interviewing survivors and descendants of the diplomats. A powerful and important film!\n \nxxxxx \nSEE THE TRAILER\nxxxxx \n\nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ June 11-14\, watch Michael King‘s film The Rescuers on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, June 13 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of guests.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \n \nEmmy Award-winning filmmaker Michael King has produced\, directed and written films for three decades. He is an Adjunct Professor of Film at Arizona State University\, The Sidney Poitier New American Film School. His film Rapping with Shakespeare examines how an inner city English teacher used hip-hop and rap to help his students access the works of Shakespeare. King holds film degrees from the University of Amsterdam and the Amsterdam Academy of Arts. He is currently developing the Rescuers Last Chance project — to tell the stories of all 35+ diplomats recognized as Righteous Among the Nations. King is a member of the Directors Guild of America. In 2009\, he was awarded Switzerland’s Carl Lutz Medal of Freedom. \n \nJoyce D. Mandell\, the Executive Producer of The Rescuers\, is a successful businesswoman and philanthropist who is actively involved in civic\, arts and cultural organizations. She and her son\, Bruce\, have a long-time relationship with film director Michael King. She is past President and Chairman of the Board of the Greater Hartford Jewish Community Center\, the first woman to serve in those positions\, and presently serves as a Trustee for the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Hartford. She is also involved in the Koby Mandell Foundation\, whose goal is to help Israeli families cope with the emotional and psychological trauma that affects victims of terrorism. \n \nDr. Mordecai Paldiel headed the Righteous Among the Nations Department at Yad Vashem from 1982-2007. His books include The Path of the Righteous\, Sheltering the Jews\, Saving the Jews\, Diplomat Heroes of the Holocaust\, Saving One’s Own: Jewish Rescuers During the Holocaust and The Righteous Among the Nations. He teaches at Stern College and Touro College and serves on the Board of the Sousa Mendes Foundation. Thanks to his efforts\, there is now a square named for Aristides de Sousa Mendes as well as a street named for Raoul Wallenberg\, both in Jerusalem. He is a member of the B’nai Brith committee in Israel honoring Jewish rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed. \nxxxxx \nThis program is co-presented with the Carl Lutz Circle.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/the-rescuers/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210606T160000
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SUMMARY:Ben Ferencz\, World War II Veteran and the Last Surviving Prosecutor of the Nuremberg Trials\, Interviewed by Dr. Yael Danieli
DESCRIPTION:Special D-Day program! Benjamin Ferencz was the Chief Prosecutor for the United States in the Einsatzgruppen Case\, which the Associated Press called “the biggest murder trial in history.” Twenty-two defendants were charged with murdering over a million people. He was only twenty-seven years old\, and it was his first case.   \nAfter Ben graduated from Harvard Law School in 1943\, he joined an anti-aircraft artillery battalion preparing for the invasion of France. As an enlisted man under General Patton\, he fought in most of the major campaigns in Europe. As Nazi atrocities were uncovered\, he was transferred to a newly created War Crimes Branch of the Army to gather evidence of Nazi brutality and apprehend the criminals. Ferencz was sent with about fifty researchers to Berlin to scour Nazi offices and archives. In their hands lay overwhelming evidence of Nazi genocide by German doctors\, lawyers\, judges\, generals\, industrialists\, and others who played leading roles in organizing or perpetrating Nazi brutalities. All twenty-two of the defendants whom Ferencz put on trial were convicted. Thirteen were sentenced to death. The verdict was hailed as a great success for the prosecution. Ferencz’s primary objective had been to establish a legal precedent that would encourage a more humane and secure world in the future. \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\nxxxxx \n⇒ June 4-7 watch the film Law\, Not War: Ben Ferencz’s Fight for Justice ($2.99 rental) on your home device. A link to the amazon rental page will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, June 6 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the conversation. Dr. Yael Danieli will introduce her interview with Ben Ferencz\, recorded specially for this program. Following the interview\, she will be joined by Professor Jennifer Trahan\, Clinical Professor at NYU’s Center for Global Affairs\, to answer any questions on the Nuremberg trials\, reparations\, or the crime of aggression. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE DISTINGUISHED INTERVIEWER\nxxxxx \n \nDr. Yael Danieli\, a clinical psychologist\, victimologist and pioneer traumatologist\, is the founder of the International Center for Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma. Founder/Director of the Group Project for Holocaust Survivors and their Children since the mid-1970s and an expert on reparative justice\, she has published\, consulted\, and received awards worldwide\, including in South Africa\, Rwanda\, Bosnia & Herzegovina\, and Northern Ireland. The Danieli Inventory for Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma allows scientifically valid assessment and comparative international study. She participated in creating all international instruments on behalf on victims’ rights and optimal care. In 2008 she was appointed Advisor on Victims of Terrorism for the office of the UN Secretary-General.  \nxxxxx \nJOINING THE PROGRAM FOR THE Q&A\nxxxxx \n \nJennifer Trahan is Clinical Professor at NYU’s Center for Global Affairs where she directs the Concentration in International Law and Human Rights and teaches International Law. Her book Existing Legal Limits to Security Council Veto Power in the Face of Atrocity Crimes was published in 2020 by Cambridge University Press. She is on the Use of Force Committee of the International Law Association. She has served as an amicus curiae to the International Criminal Court on the appeal of the situation regarding Afghanistan\, and serves on the Council of Advisers on the Application of the Rome Statute to Cyberwarfare. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed. \nxxxxx \nThis program is co-presented with the International Center for the Study\, Treatment and Prevention of Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/ben-ferencz-prosecutor-at-nuremberg/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210530
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210531
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SUMMARY:Sousa Mendes Remembered
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nOn this Memorial Day program we honor the memory of the Holocaust rescuer Aristides de Sousa Mendes with a panel featuring former Congressman Tony Coelho\, who was instrumental in bringing justice for this hero in his home country of Portugal\, and two granddaughters of Sousa Mendes: Sheila Abranches-Pierce and Angelina Mendes Muetzel. The program will be moderated by Robert Jacobvitz\, a pioneer in the effort to have Sousa Mendes recognized for his action to save Jews and other refugees from the Holocaust. \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\nxxxxx \n⇒ May 28-31 (optional) watch the film Disobedience: The Sousa Mendes Story ($6.99) on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register\, with film rental instructions. \n⇒ Sunday\, May 30 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the free presentation by our distinguished panel. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \n \nThe Honorable Anthony “Tony” Coelho is a former six-term United States Congressman from California\, and House Majority Whip\, the third most powerful position in the House of Representatives. It was thanks to his intervention in the Sousa Mendes case as a Portuguese-American leader that Portugal finally reversed its punishment of the Holocaust rescuer and declared him a national hero. He was the primary author and sponsor of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) — the most important piece of civil rights legislation in the last 30 years. In 2018\, Mr. Coelho founded The Coelho Center for Disability Law\, Policy and Innovation at Loyola Marymount University. \n \nSheila Abranches-Pierce (right) is a granddaughter of the Holocaust rescuer Aristides de Sousa Mendes and his wife Angelina. Her father John Paul\, their 14th child\, was instrumental in the effort to have Portugal recognize Sousa Mendes as a national hero. She is a former Board member of the Sousa Mendes Foundation and has been active in telling her grandfather’s story since the 1990s. Born and raised in the East Bay\, she spent 27 years working in the banking industry in New York before moving home to California to marry her high school sweetheart. Over the years\, she has enjoyed the privilege of representing the Sousa Mendes family at various events in the tri-state area\, Portugal\, France and California.   \n \nAngelina “Gigí” Mendes Muetzel (left) is a granddaughter of Aristides and Angelina de Sousa Mendes. Her father was Carlos Francisco Fernando\, their 11th child. Gigí attended school in the US\, Mexico\, Portugal and England. She has participated along with her family in various Sousa Mendes events in CA\, Mexico\, the United Nations in NY\, and the European Parliament in France. She also has shared her grandfather’s story with local media and different groups. She is now retired and living with her husband Duane at their ranch in Oregon. They have two daughters María\, AmyLea and a grandson Joaquín\, who is the light of her life.  \nRobert Jacobvitz\, who will moderate\, is a Board member of the Sousa Mendes Foundation and Chair of its International Advisory Council. He is a graduate of Yeshiva University’s Wurzweiler School of Social Work and holds an MSW in Community Social Work. For ten years he directed the Jewish Community Relations Council of the Greater East Bay\, and it was in this capacity in the 1980’s that he began championing the cause of Aristides de Sousa Mendes. He wrote a seminal article on Aristides de Sousa Mendes that can be read at this link. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/sousa-mendes-remembered/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210523
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210524
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SUMMARY:Mendelssohn\, the Nazis and Me
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\n7 PM LONDON\nxxxxx \nFelix Mendelssohn was a child prodigy pianist and composer who was famous from a young age. Born into an illustrious Berlin Jewish family (his grandfather was the theologian Moses Mendelssohn who began the assimilation of Jews into German society)\, Felix was baptised Lutheran\, along with his siblings\, at the age of seven\, in part because at that time Jews in Germany did not have full civil rights. For the rest of his short life (he died at age 38)\, Mendelssohn strove to unite the two religions in his music\, continuing what his grandfather had begun. He became one of Germany’s most beloved composers\, and millions of brides have walked down the aisle to his Wedding March. One hundred years later the Nazis came to power\, banned Mendelssohn’s music in Germany and re-classified his (mainly Lutheran) descendants as Jews\, threatening their lives. One of these descendants\, the filmmaker Sheila Hayman\, decided to tell her family’s story on screen. Her wide-ranging and fascinating film is about the madness of labels and the unifying power of music. \n\n \nWATCH THE TRAILER\nxxxxx \n \n  \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ May 21-24\, watch Sheila Hayman‘s film Mendelssohn\, the Nazis and Me on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, May 23 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of guests.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \nSheila Hayman has written and directed films for the BBC\, ARTE\, Beijing TV and others\, winning a BAFTA and Time Out Documentary Series of the Year\, and a Robert Kennedy award. She has been UK Young Journalist of the Year\, the BAFTA/Fulbright Fellow in Los Angeles\, a columnist for The Guardian\, and is a Director’s Fellow of the MIT Media Lab. She has also worked with the UK NGO Freedom from Torture on behalf of refugees. Mendelssohn\, the Nazis and Me was nominated for the Grierson Arts Documentary of the Year. She is now working on a film about Fanny Mendelssohn\, her conflicted relationship with her own extraordinary talent\, and the part Felix played in its suppression. \n \nR. Larry Todd is Arts & Sciences Professor at Duke University. His books include Mendelssohn: A Life in Music\, described as “likely to be the standard biography for a long time to come” (New York Review of Books)\, and Fanny Hensel: The Other Mendelssohn\, which received the ASCAP Slonimsky Prize. A fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation and National Humanities Center\, he edits the Master Musician Series (Oxford University Press). As a pianist\, he has recorded the complete cello/piano works of the Mendelssohns for JRI Recordings. Among his recent books are Discovering Music and\, with co-author Marc Moskovitz\, Beethoven’s Cello: Five Revolutionary Sonatas and Their World. \nLily E. Hirsch is an expert on Jewish musical life under the Nazi regime. She is a Visiting Scholar at California State University\, Bakersfield. Previously\, she taught as Assistant Professor of Music at Cleveland State University. She holds a Ph.D. in musicology from Duke University and is the author of A Jewish Orchestra in Nazi Germany: Musical Politics and the Berlin Jewish Culture League\, Music in American Crime Prevention and Punishment\, Anneliese Landau’s Life in Music: Nazi Germany to Émigré California\, Weird Al: Seriously\, and\, as co-editor\, Dislocated Memories: Jews\, Music\, and Postwar German Culture\, winner of the American Musicological Society’s Ruth A. Solie Award. She is working on a study of humor in music as well as a book about the connection between music and insult. \nxxxxx \nWe have a generous benefactor for this program who is offering sponsored tickets to those who need it. Thank you to our benefactor!xxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/mendelssohn-the-nazis-and-me/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210509
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210510
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SUMMARY:Faye Schulman\, Partisan and Photographer
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nThis Mother’s Day program remembers the brave partisan Faye Schulman\, whose photographs are the only visual record of the resistance action of the Polish partisans. The program is co-presented with the Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation (JPEF) and will be moderated by Mitch Braff.\n \nxxxxx \n\n\n\n\n\n \nBOOKS AVAILABLE — PERFECT FOR MOTHER’S DAY!  \nxxxxx \nGet yours today! We are offering books by Joanne Gilbert and Faye Schulman in conjunction with this program. A rare opportunity!  For details and to order yours\, click here. \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ May 7-10\, watch Shelley Saywell‘s film Out of the Fire on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, May 9 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of guests.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx\n \nShelley Saywell\, director of Out of the Fire\, has directed and produced twenty independent documentary films. She has won an Emmy for Investigative Journalism\, two Best Canadian Documentary Awards at Hot Docs International Festival\, and her feature documentary A Child Century of War was shortlisted for an Academy Award. WIFT presented her with the Creative Excellence Award in 2010. Saywell is the author of Women in War and contributing editor to Ourselves Among Others.  She has written for The Huffington Post\, Chatelaine\, Women’s World\, and other publications. She is currently writing a memoir. Her website is: www.bisharifilms.com \n \nAuthor Joanne D. Gilbert was profoundly affected by the stories told by her grandmother\, who had been able to leave Vilna\, Lithuania before the Nazis destroyed the Jewish community there. Joanne became dedicated to finding and celebrating the truth of Jewish heroism during the Holocaust. Her books Women of Valor: Polish Jewish Resisters to the Third Reich (2018) and A Victory for Miriam! The Little Jewish Girl Who Defied the Nazis (2019) have received outstanding reviews. Her next book is Women of Valor: German\, French\, & Dutch Resisters to the Third Reich. She is currently developing a walking tour of the Jewish Resistance in Paris. \nMitch Braff\, founder of the Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation (JPEF)\, will moderate the discussion. Over the past 20 years\, in collaboration with a committed staff and board\, he has built JPEF into a world-renowned organization\, impacting more than one million students and over 20\,000 educators annually through the history and life lessons of the Jewish partisans. JPEF’s innovative educational materials are used by Holocaust\, social studies\, English\, and Jewish studies educators everywhere. JPEF is recognized as one of the most innovative Jewish organizations in the world\, and its online learning platform is a model for both Jewish and secular education. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.xxxxx \nThis program is co-presented with the Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation. Photo credit of Faye Schulman with a rifle:  JPEF/A Partisan’s Memoir\, Second Story Press\, p. 115.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/faye-schulman-partisan-and-photographer/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210502
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SUMMARY:Captain Barros Basto\, the Portuguese Dreyfus
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\n7 PM LISBON • 9 PM JERUSALEM\nxxxxx \nArtur Carlos de Barros Basto was a captain in the Portuguese military who was discharged as a Jew despite having been raised as a Catholic. Descended from a family forcibly converted during The Inquisition\, he rediscovered his Judaism and underwent a formal conversion. Then he built the largest synagogue in the Iberian peninsula in order to attract other “conversos” to reclaim the religion of their ancestors. A remarkable story!  \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ April 30-May 3\, watch Luis Ismael‘s film Sefarad on your own (available on Amazon Prime). \n⇒ Sunday\, May 2 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of guests.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \n \nInacio Steinhardt was born in Lisbon\, Portugal in 1933 and made aliyah in 1976. He co-authored with Elvira Mea a biography of Captain Barros Basto and authored many articles in several languages. He is a retired journalist representing the Portuguese News Agency LUSA in Israel. He was given a “lifetime achievement” award from the Institute for the Research of Judaism in Spain and Portugal of Natanya College in Israel. He was President of the Israel-Portugal Friendship Association. In 2002 he was decorated by the President of Portugal as Commander of the Order of Merit. \n \nDara Jeffries (left)\, a dual-national who splits her time between the United States and Portugal\, will speak about Jewish life in Porto today. She chairs the Supervisory Board of the Jewish Community of Porto\, of which she has been a member since childhood. She speaks at international film festivals and conferences about the Community’s films\, museums and educational programs. Dara holds a Masters in languages from Oxford University\, a Portuguese Law degree and a US Law degree\, and is a practicing attorney.  \nMariana Abrantes (right)\, who will moderate the panel\, is the Board Treasurer of the Sousa Mendes Foundation. Coming from a village in central Portugal\, she studied Economics at UC-Berkeley and earned an MA from Princeton. 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 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 \nJeannette V. Fischer (Cookie) (left) will speak about Samuel van den Bergh\, her great-grandfather from the Netherlands. He was an active benefactor of Captain Barros Basto and supported the construction of the Porto synagogue. Cookie grew up in Peru of European parents. She has lived and worked in the US\, Asia\, Europe\, Mexico\, South America\, Cuba and Israel. Her Dutch mother escaped from Bayonne\, France\, June 22\, 1940 on a sardine schooner with a visa issued by Aristides de Sousa Mendes. Cookie is a teacher\, trainer\, coach and global intercultural consultant.  She speaks nine languages and works in six. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/captain-barros-basto-the-portuguese-dreyfus/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210411
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210412
DTSTAMP:20260421T152430
CREATED:20210325T195129Z
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SUMMARY:Hava Nagila -- Anthem of Jewish Rejoicing
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nJoin us for a celebration!\nxxxxx \nHava Nagila (The Movie) is a documentary romp through the history\, mystery and meaning of the great Jewish standard. Featuring interviews with Harry Belafonte\, Leonard Nimoy\, Connie Francis\, Glen Campbell\, Regina Spektor and more\, the film follows the ubiquitous party song on its fascinating journey from the shtetls of Eastern Europe to the kibbutzim of Palestine to the cul-de-sacs of America. High on fun and entertainment\, Hava Nagila (The Movie) is also surprisingly profound\, tapping into universal themes about the importance of joy\, the power of music and the resilient spirit of a people.  \n“When you find a song that says ‘Let us rejoice\,’ there’s no better song to leave an evening with. Hava Nagila tells us who we should be and what we\, in a fundamental sense\, aspire to be – peoples of love and joy and peace.” – Harry Belafonte\n  \nxxxxx \nWATCH THE TRAILER\n  \n \nxxxxx\nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ April 9-12\, watch Roberta Grossman‘s film Hava Nagila (The Movie) on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, April 11 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of guests.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \nPianist Richard Glazier has performed in almost every state and has been a soloist with Pops orchestras across the country. He has won several major international piano competitions including the National Federation of Music Clubs Young Artist Competition and the Pro Musicis International Award. He was invited by the Gershwin family to tour across the country in Rhapsody and Rhythm: The Gershwin Concert Experience. Glazier has had three nationally broadcast television specials on PBS. The shows have won multiple awards\, including four Telly Awards for Outstanding Achievement in entertainment\, documentary and cultural programming. He has been featured on the PBS NewsHour and records exclusively for Centaur Records. \n \nFilmmaker Roberta Grossman received the 2018 Washington Jewish Film Festival’s Annual Visionary Award for “creativity and insight in presenting the full diversity of the Jewish experience through the moving image.” Her feature documentaries about Jewish history and culture include Blessed is the Match (2008); Hava Nagila (The Movie) (2012); Above and Beyond (2014) and Who Will Write Our History (2018). She is a three-time recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and is the co-founder of the non-profit production company Katahdin Productions. \nHenry Sapoznik is an award-winning record and radio producer\, author\, and ethnomusicologist in the fields of Yiddish and American popular and traditional culture. He is featured in the film Hava Nagila (The Movie). A five-time Grammy-nominated producer\, he won the 2002 Peabody award for his 13-part NPR series “The Yiddish Radio Project” — the collection of which was acquired by the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress in 2011. Sapoznik’s most recent reissue box set is  Protobilly: The Minstrel and Tin Pan Alley Roots of Country Music 1892-2017 (2019). He is working on a book about the shvartze khazonim — the Black cantors.  \nxxxxx \nIs cost an issue?  We have a generous benefactor for this program who is offering sponsored tickets to those who need it.   \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/hava-nagila-anthem-of-jewish-rejoicing/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210314
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210315
DTSTAMP:20260421T152430
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SUMMARY:Dear Fredy
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\n6 PM LONDON • 7 PM PARIS • 8 PM JERUSALEM\n(Please note: Daylight Savings Time in the United States) \n“We Jews don’t have saints\, but we do have tzaddikim\, righteous people\, people of tzedek\, of justice. Perhaps the word could also be translated as ‘decency.’” \n– Zuzana Růžičková\, Holocaust survivor\, speaking about Fredy Hirsch\n \nFredy Hirsch was a revered Jewish sportsman and youth leader who brightened the lives of children at Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. Born in Aachen\, Germany\, he was 19 years old when the Nuremberg Laws were imposed\, and he fled to Prague. There he began activities as a sports teacher and youth counselor in the Maccabee Hashomer Hatzair Zionist youth movement\, and soon became his students’ object of admiration. Together with members of the underground in Auschwitz\, he planned a revolt that never came to pass. Using rare photographs\, archival footage\, the testimonies of survivors\, and animation\, Dear Fredy is a celebration of a heroic figure who died in the Holocaust fighting for the betterment of others. He has been recognized posthumously by B’nai B’rith International as a Jewish rescuer of Jews. \nxxxxx \nSEE THE TRAILER\nxxxxx \n\nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ March 12-15\, watch Rubi Gat‘s film Dear Fredy on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, March 14 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of guests.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \n \nRubi Gat is an editor and documentary filmmaker based in Jerusalem. He has presented Dear Fredy at numerous film festivals\, to wide acclaim. The film won the Houston Film Critics Society Award Grand Jury Prize\, the Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature at the Festival Vues d’en Face in Grenoble\, France\, in 2019\, and other international recognitions. His previous film Not a Hero depicts the journey of his son\, a teenager in a wheelchair\, to be accepted to the army like his peers. From 1994 until 2010 he was Chief Video Editor at the BBC bureau in Jerusalem. He is writing a novel on the “first intifada” in Israel. \nDr. Inge Auerbacher (right) is a chemist and Holocaust child survivor who met Fredy Hirsch during her imprisonment at Theresienstadt and recalls learning from him how to perform a handstand. A prolific author and sought-after speaker\, she is the author of I am a Star\, Beyond the Yellow Star\, Finding Dr. Schatz\, Children of Terror\, Running Against the Wind\, and Highway to New York. She is a recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor\, the Louis E. Yavner Citizen Award and a Doctor of Humane Letters honoris causa from Long Island University. She was honored by the German government and delivered the keynote address during the United Nations Days of Remembrance in 2019. \n \nDr. Nili Keren (left) is an expert on the action of Fredy Hirsch to ease the trauma of children incarcerated in Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. She is the author of “Children” in The Holocaust Encyclopedia published by Yale University Press. A disciple of the Holocaust studies pioneer Yehuda Bauer\, she taught for many years in the Kibbutzim College of Education in Tel Aviv. She was a visiting professor at Stockton University in New Jersey. Her books include Shoah: A Journey into Memory\, Fragments of Memory. A History of the Holocaust (with Yehuda Bauer)\, a book about the children of Theresienstadt\, and a Holocaust textbook for high schools in Israel. \n\n \nDr. Mordecai Paldiel headed the Righteous Among the Nations Department at Yad Vashem from 1982-2007. His books include The Path of the Righteous\, Sheltering the Jews\, Saving the Jews\, Diplomat Heroes of the Holocaust\, Saving One’s Own: Jewish Rescuers During the Holocaust and The Righteous Among the Nations. He teaches at Stern College and Touro College and serves on the Board of the Sousa Mendes Foundation. Thanks to his efforts\, there is now a square named for Aristides de Sousa Mendes as well as a street named for Raoul Wallenberg\, both in Jerusalem. He is a member of the B’nai Brith committee in Israel honoring Jewish rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. \nxxxxx \n  \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/dear-fredy/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210307T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210307T170000
DTSTAMP:20260421T152430
CREATED:20210204T073610Z
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SUMMARY:Bulgarian Miracle
DESCRIPTION:In 1943\, during the darkest times of human history\, a handful of people in tiny Bulgaria stood up against Hitler… and succeeded. This is a true story about the remarkable rescue of 49\,172 people — the entire Jewish population of Bulgaria. Plamen Petkov‘s documentary film 49\,172 tells the story. \n \nxxxxx \nWATCH THE TRAILER\nxxxxx \n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ March 5-8\, watch Plamen Petkov‘s film 49\,172 on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, March 7 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our panel of distinguished guests.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\n  \n \nPlamen Petkov is a Bulgarian-born documentary filmmaker based in Boston\, MA. His 10-episode documentary The Bulgarians was aired by the largest Bulgarian broadcaster and sold close to 500\,000 copies on DVD. His film The Liberators of Bulgaria received the award for “Best Historical Documentary” in Bulgaria. His film 49\,172 is a gripping story of the rescue of Bulgaria’s entire Jewish population. He is the author of The Bulgarians and The Bulgarians Before Bulgaria. He was an adjunct professor of Mass Communications at New Bulgarian University. He holds an MA in Psychology (The University of Sofia) and an MFA in Visual and Media Arts (Emerson College\, Boston). \n \nDr. Alice Handel Eichenbaum was born in Vienna in 1928 and moved to Sofia\, Bulgaria in 1934. She attended German and French private schools until March 1942. She was then forced to wear the yellow star and to move to the town of Karnobat in May 1943 with her family. They were liberated by the Russian Army on September 9\, 1944. Dr. Eichenbaum received her Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry in Graz\, Austria in 1954. She married Raymond Eichenbaum (an Auschwitz survivor) and moved to the US\, where she worked as a chemist. Dr. Eichenbaum lives in Rhode Island and is a frequent speaker on her wartime experience in Bulgaria. \n\n \nDr. Mordecai Paldiel headed the Righteous Among the Nations Department at Yad Vashem from 1982-2007. His books include The Path of the Righteous\, Sheltering the Jews\, Saving the Jews\, Diplomat Heroes of the Holocaust\, Saving One’s Own: Jewish Rescuers During the Holocaust and The Righteous Among the Nations. He teaches at Stern College and Touro College and serves on the Board of the Sousa Mendes Foundation. Thanks to his efforts\, there is now a square named for Aristides de Sousa Mendes as well as a street named for Raoul Wallenberg\, both in Jerusalem. He is a member of the B’nai Brith committee in Israel honoring Jewish rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/bulgaria/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210228T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210228T170000
DTSTAMP:20260421T152430
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SUMMARY:Nobody Wants Us
DESCRIPTION:In 1940\, a ship called the S.S. Quanza left the port of Lisbon carrying several hundred Jewish refugees to freedom. Most of them held life-saving visas issued by the Holocaust rescuer Aristides de Sousa Mendes. But events went terribly wrong\, and the passengers became trapped on the ship when no country would accept them. Nobody Wants Us tells the gripping true story of how Eleanor Roosevelt stepped in to save the passengers on board. Other heroes of the Quanza were the lawyers Jacob and Sallie Morewitz and members of the National Council of Jewish Women. This is an episode in American history that everyone should know!\n \nxxxxx \nSEE THE TRAILER\nxxxxx \n\nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\nxxxxx \n⇒ February 26-29\, watch Laura Seltzer-Duny‘s film Nobody Wants Us on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, February 28 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our panel of guests.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \n \nLaura Seltzer-Duny is an award-winning PBS filmmaker who has a special interest in producing documentary films about communities and unsung heroes. She is drawn to the topic of migration and has produced numerous stories about the plight of refugees and their stories of resettlement. Laura is based in the Washington\, DC area and will travel around the globe for a cause she believes in. Her work has aired on PBS\, CNN\, MSNBC\, CBS\, NBC and The Discovery Channel. She has produced films for the National Library of Medicine\, the National Institutes of Health\, and the Department of Education. She is a member of the Educational Initiatives Committee of the Sousa Mendes Foundation.  \n \nBlanche Wiesen Cook is a Distinguished Professor of History and Women’s Studies at the John Jay College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.  She is the author of the three-volume definitive biography of Eleanor Roosevelt. Volume One was awarded the 1992 Biography prize from the Los Angeles Times. NPR included the third volume in its “Best books of 2016.” Cook co-founded the Freedom of Information and Access Committee of the Organization of American Historians and was chair of the Fund for Open Information and Accountability. \n \nRebecca N. Eichler is an immigration attorney and refugee advocate. She lives and works in Mexico\, advising deportees from the U.S\, migrants in transit\, and asylum seekers at the US border. In fall 2018\, she spearheaded central Mexico’s legal aid response to the migrant caravans\, providing consultations and know-your-rights presentations to hundreds of migrants on what to expect at the border. She holds a J.D. from William & Mary Law School and a Masters of Law in International Human Rights from the University of London. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/nobody-wants-us/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210221
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210222
DTSTAMP:20260421T152430
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SUMMARY:Soros
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nBillionaire activist George Soros is one of the most influential and controversial figures of our time. Famous for betting against the Bank of England in 1992 and making a billion dollars in one day\, he is maligned by ideologues on both the left and the right for daring to tackle the world’s problems and putting his money behind his fight – from free elections and freedom of the press to civil rights for minorities. With unprecedented access to the man and his inner circle\, filmmaker Jesse Dylan\, the son of music icon Bob Dylan\, follows Soros across the globe and pulls back the curtain on his personal history\, private wealth\, and public activism. The resulting filmed portrait reveals a complicated genius whose experience as a Jew during the Holocaust gave rise to a lifelong crusade against authoritarianism and hate. \nxxxxx \nWATCH THE TRAILER\n\nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ February 19-22\, watch Jesse Dylan‘s film Soros on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, February 21 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our all-star panel of guests.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \n \nA prolific director\, immersive storyteller\, and visionary problem-solver\, Jesse Dylan strives to be in service of ideas that change the world both inside and outside of his creative agency Wondros. Vibrant in his passions and dedicated to creating thoughtful\, engaging content\, he is the energy behind his projects’ mission to break barriers and generate large-scale impact. As the mind behind some of the most successful campaigns in commercial television\, print and interactive advertising\, Jesse has dedicated his career to telling the stories of some of the world’s most innovative individuals and organizations. \n \nProducer Priscilla Cohen has created award-winning content that is both socially responsible and visually compelling\, bringing an authentic and compassionate voice to each new project. In 2008 she worked alongside filmmaker Jesse Dylan to produce the Emmy-Award winning Yes We Can video on behalf of then-candidate Barack Obama. Some of the films that she worked on include: Interview with a Vampire\, A River Runs Through It\, The Cider House Rules and Within the Whirlwind which won the European Time For Peace award. She is the Chief Creative Officer at the Wondros creative agency. \n \nDr. Michael Berenbaum is Director of the Sigi Ziering Institute and co-founder of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. His books include A Promise to Remember: The Holocaust in the Words and Voices of Its Survivors; The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum;A Mosaic of Victims: Non-Jews Persecuted and Murdered by the Nazis and Witness to the Holocaust: An Illustrated Documentary History of the Holocaust in the Words of Its Victims\, Perpetrators\, and Bystanders. He serves on the Advisory Council of the Sousa Mendes Foundation. \nxxxxx \n\nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/soros/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210131
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210201
DTSTAMP:20260421T152430
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SUMMARY:Woman of Valor -- The Story of Hannah Senesh
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK • 9 PM JERUSALEM\nxxxxx \nThere are few figures in world history like Hannah Senesh. Possessed at a young age by the mission to save the Jewish people\, she was an ardent Zionist who moved to Palestine to help establish a Jewish homeland. Then\, in the midst of the Nazi genocide in Europe she volunteered to parachute into Yugoslavia en route to Hungary in an effort to warn and rescue Hungary’s Jews. Today she is remembered and revered in Israel — the land she helped build. Her poem “Eli\, Eli” was set to music\, and is widely known. This program will include a screening of Roberta Grossman‘s Blessed is the Match about Hannah’s life and action. Then meet the filmmaker who will be in dialogue with historians Dr. Michael Berenbaum and Dr. Mordecai Paldiel. Also joining the program will be the Israeli pop singer Avaya to speak about what Hannah Senesh means to her. A story everyone should know! \n  \nLISTEN TO THE SONG “ELI\, ELI” WITH WORDS BY HANNAH SENESH\, SUNG BY ISRAELI POP SINGER AVAYA\nxxxxx \n\n \n  \nWATCH THE TRAILER TO BLESSED IS THE MATCH\n\nxxxxx \n\n  \nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \nPhoto credit: Sundance Institute \nFilmmaker Roberta Grossman received the 2018 Washington Jewish Film Festival’s Annual Visionary Award for “creativity and insight in presenting the full diversity of the Jewish experience through the moving image.” Her feature documentaries about Jewish history and culture include Blessed is the Match (2008); Hava Nagila (The Movie) (2012); Above and Beyond (2014) and Who Will Write Our History (2018). She is a three-time recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and is the co-founder of the non-profit production company Katahdin Productions. \nDr. Michael Berenbaum is Director of the Sigi Ziering Institute and co-founder of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. His books include A Promise to Remember: The Holocaust in the Words and Voices of Its Survivors; The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum;A Mosaic of Victims: Non-Jews Persecuted and Murdered by the Nazis and Witness to the Holocaust: An Illustrated Documentary History of the Holocaust in the Words of Its Victims\, Perpetrators\, and Bystanders. He serves on the Advisory Council of the Sousa Mendes Foundation. \nAvaya is a singer\, songwriter\, and producer living in Israel. She is inspired by Hannah Senesh and proudly sings her poem\, Eli\, Eli. Throughout her musical career\, Avaya has pulled from an array of influences; her style has been described as a mixture of Adele\, Birdy\, and Freya Ridings. She was trained as a classical singer and has performed in countless venues across Israel and in the U.S. Avaya released her debut album\, Paper Cranes\, in 2017 (under her former artist’s name ‘AVIVA’). Avaya realized her musical passions early\, memorizing and singing Disney songs before she learned to speak. She began taking private vocal lessons when she was nine years old and majored in Classical Vocals and Music Theory at the Conservatory of Music of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her newest single\, B.B.\, was released on November 29\, 2020 on all platforms.  www.avayaofficial.com \nDr. Mordecai Paldiel headed the Righteous Among the Nations Department at Yad Vashem from 1982-2007\, and he is a prime mover in the effort to honor Jewish rescuers of Jews. His books include The Path of the Righteous\, Sheltering the Jews\, Saving the Jews\, Diplomat Heroes of the Holocaust\, Saving One’s Own: Jewish Rescuers During the Holocaust and The Righteous Among the Nations. He currently teaches at Stern College and Touro College and serves on the Board of the Sousa Mendes Foundation. Thanks to his efforts\, there is now a square named for Aristides de Sousa Mendes as well as a street named for Raoul Wallenberg\, both in Jerusalem. \n\n\nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/the-story-of-hannah-senesh/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210124T160000
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DTSTAMP:20260421T152430
CREATED:20201228T080003Z
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SUMMARY:Escape to Ecuador -- a Jewish Safe Haven
DESCRIPTION:Eva Zelig‘s documentary An Unknown Country tells the story of European Jews who fled Nazi persecution to find refuge in an unlikely destination: Ecuador. This small South American country\, barely known at the time\, took them in when most had closed their doors. Featuring first hand accounts\, family photos and archival material\, the film opens a window on the exiles’ perilous escape and difficult adjustment as they remade their lives in what was for them an exotic\, unfamiliar land. \nxxxxx \nWATCH THE TRAILER\nxxxxx \n\n \n\n  \n\nTHE SCHEDULE\nxxxxx \n⇒ January 22-25\, watch Eva Zelig’s film An Unknown Country on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒  Sunday\, January 24 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the discussion with our distinguished panelists. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \nDr. Abramo Ottolenghi was born in Turin\, Italy in 1931. After Mussolini promulgated the racial laws\, his family emigrated to Ecuador in 1939. His family\, together with other Italian Jewish refugees\, founded LIFE — a pharmaceutical laboratory in Quito\, Ecuador. After pursuing his Masters Degree at the University of Pennsylvania he returned to Quito to work at LIFE. He then returned to the University of Pennsylvania\, obtaining his Ph.D. in 1956 in the department of Medical Microbiology. Today he is Professor Emeritus of the department of Medical Microbiology in the College of Medicine at The Ohio State University. Dr. Ottolenghi is active in Rotary projects in Ecuador and the Dominican Republic. Married for 63 years\, he and his wife Joan have four grown children\, 7 grandchildren\, and 5 great-grandchildren.  \nEva Zelig\, born in Ecuador\, is an award-winning producer/writer whose work has appeared on PBS\, The Learning Channel\, ABC\, and National Geographic TV. An Unknown Country was nominated for a New York Emmy award and best documentary by Barcelona Planeta Film Festival. She has won two Emmys: for the Learning Channel documentary\, Killer Virus\, and for her work on the PBS series\, Innovation. She has also been honored with awards from CINE\, National Educational Media Network\, American Women in Radio & TV\, International Film & TV Festival of New York. For the American Museum of Natural History she produced the first multimedia exhibition on climate change — winner of the American Association of Museums’ Curators Award. \nDaniel Subotnik\, who will moderate the discussion\, serves on the Sousa Mendes Foundation’s Board of Directors. The son of two Sousa Mendes visa recipients\, he is a Professor of Law at the Touro Law Center in Central Islip\, New York. He worked in the investment banking field before undertaking teaching positions in law and business at Northwestern University College of Law\, the University of Illinois\, Chicago\, Santa Clara University School of Law\, Seton Hall University School of Law and the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. In 2013 he organized a major event honoring Aristides de Sousa Mendes at the Touro Law Center. He appears in the documentary film\, With God Against Man. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/escape-to-ecuador-a-jewish-safe-haven/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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