Film Screening

Q & A following the screening led by Karen Denker, daughter and granddaughter of Sousa Mendes visa recipients.

Tickets:  $10

Organized by the Association of Portuguese Speakers in Switzerland. Event in French and Portuguese. Special guest Gerald Mendes.

Camp Gibraltar, on the island of Jamaica, was a safe haven during World War II for Jews escaping Nazi-occupied Europe.  Some of the refugees who found respite there were Sousa Mendes visa recipients.  Accordingly, Aristides de Sousa Mendes will be honored during a reunion of the families who once called Camp Gibraltar home.

Presented by the Jewish Federation of Ottawa
Followed by Q&A with Louis-Philippe Mendes, grandson of Aristides de Sousa Mendes
Tickets by donation.

For more information contact: emoscoe@jewishottawa.com

The American Jewish Committee and the Holocaust Museum Houston are jointly sponsoring a commemoration of Aristides de Sousa Mendes in conjunction with International Holocaust Remembrance Day.  Louis-Philippe Mendes, grandson of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, will speak.  All events will be held at the Holocaust Museum Houston.

Schedule:

Thursday, January 26, 2017, 6:30 p.m.

Screening of Disobedience: The Sousa Mendes Story at the Holocaust Museum Houston.  Free and open to the public.

Friday, January 27, 2017, 10 a.m.

Ceremony “Remembering Aristides de Sousa Mendes” with Houston Diplomatic Consular Corps and remarks by Louis-Philippe Mendes.  Free and open to the public, but seating is limited.

January 26-February 26, 2017

In conjunction with the above events, the Sousa Mendes Foundation presents an exhibition of original artifacts, “Sousa Mendes and his Visas to Freedom.” On view will be passports with the original Sousa Mendes visas along with personal items of refugees rescued by Aristides de Sousa Mendes.

For more information, call (713) 942-8000.

The New Jersey Film Festival presents Semyon Pinkhasov‘s must-see documentary about Aristides de Sousa Mendes.  In June 2013, Pinkhasov followed a group of visa recipient families, along with members of the Sousa Mendes family, as they embarked on a pilgrimage retracing their families’ footsteps of 73 years earlier.  They were “searching for Sousa Mendes” – looking for traces and clues of a lost history in an effort to understand their personal pasts.  Co-sponsored by the Rutgers University Centers for Global Advancement and International Affairs (GAIA Centers).  47 min. Tickets $12/$10/$9.

For more information: (848) 932-8482 or njmac12@gmail.com

The Moscow War Memorial Synagogue presents Semyon Pinkhasov‘s must-see documentary about Aristides de Sousa Mendes.  In June 2013, Pinkhasov followed a group of visa recipient families, along with members of the Sousa Mendes family, as they embarked on a pilgrimage retracing their families’ footsteps of 73 years earlier.  They were “searching for Sousa Mendes” – looking for traces and clues of a lost history in an effort to understand their personal pasts.  In attendance will be the filmmaker as well as Sousa Mendes visa recipient Sarah Goodman, coming specially from Israel.  47 min.

Congregation Shaarai Shomayim presents a screening of Disobedience: The Sousa Mendes Story. Free admission. For more information: 717-397-5575.

Dr. Michael Rie and the Jewish Federation of the Bluegrass present a screening of Disobedience: The Sousa Mendes Story.  Co-sponsored by the Moosnick Lectureship of the Lexington Theological Seminary and Transylvania University, and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lexington, Kentucky.