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SUMMARY:Music as Resistance — Reconstructing the Lost Music of Auschwitz
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nThe Lost Music of Auschwitz tells the remarkable story of British composer Leo Geyer’s 8-year long mission to piece together a treasure-trove of forgotten fragments of music manuscripts found in the archives of the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum. \n \nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\nxxxxx \n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ October 17-20\, watch the film The Lost Music of Auschwitz on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, October 19 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\n\n\n\nCaroline Kennedy is a British soprano who appears in The Lost Music of Auschwitz and is celebrated for her versatility and warmth on stage. A graduate of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama\, she has performed roles across the UK\, including Despina in Così fan tutte\, Olympia in The Tales of Hoffmann\, and Adriana in The Boys from Syracuse. She recently performed music from The Lost Music of Auschwitz at London’s Bloomsbury Theatre. Beyond the stage\, Caroline is dedicated to community engagement\, regularly performing in care homes and leading singing groups for people living with dementia\, using music to connect\, uplift\, and inspire.\nLeo Geyer\, left\, is a young composer\, conductor and presenter. He began his career at the Royal Opera House as a Cover Conductor for The Royal Ballet and is now the Founder and Artistic Director of Constella OperaBallet. Following his traineeship with the BBC\, Leo has presented for BBC Radio 3 and Sky Arts TV. He has also contributed to Add to Playlist and Archive on Four on BBC Radio 4. In addition\, he has appeared as an artist on BBC Radio 3 and 4 and discussed musical matters on BBC News. As a guest conductor\, he has collaborated with the BBC Concert Orchestra\, English National Opera\, Birmingham Contemporary Music Ensemble\, the National Theatre and other ensembles.\n\nAntal Zalai\, right\, is a classical concert violinist who appears in the film The Lost Music of Auschwitz\, performing in tribute to a young Roma victim of the Holocaust. He was born in Budapest in a poor family of Roma ethnicity\, and he first became famous for his interpretations of the music of Bartók. His father\, grandfather and great-grandfather were also musicians. He has performed in forty countries on four continents\, and his playing has been praised by the legendary violinists Isaac Stern\, Yehudi Menuhin and Igor Oistrakh. He was trained in Brussels and is a professor at the Brussels Conservatory of Music.\n\n\n\n\nDr. Jud Newborn\, left\, who will moderate\, was the Founding Historian of New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage and is co-author of the acclaimed Sophie Scholl and the White Rose. A dramatic multimedia lecturer\, he has spoken throughout North America\, at the UN and worldwide. He was awarded his PhD with Distinction by the University of Chicago following three years of adventurous fieldwork as a Fulbright and Woodrow Wilson National Fellow\, including hunting down former SS officers and working undercover during communist martial law in Poland. He was honored with the Anne Frank Center’s prestigious “Spirit of Anne Frank Award” and is the two-time Emmy Award-winning Producer of Special Programs for Long Island’s Cinema Arts Centre.\nxxxxx\nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/the-lost-music-of-auschwitz/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250928
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250929
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SUMMARY:Walter Winchell and the Defeat of the German American Bund
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nWalter Winchell\, the newspaper columnist\, radio commentator and television personality\, pioneered the fast-paced\, gossip-driven\, politically charged journalism that dominates today. His on-air activism to his 50 million listeners during World War II helped to defeat the German American Bund\, the US version of the Nazi party. While his post-war legacy is much more problematic\, his enormously impactful wartime efforts are worthy of being remembered and celebrated. \n \nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ September 26-29 view the film Walter Winchell — The Power of Gossip on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, September 28 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\n\n\n\nBen Loeterman produced and directed Walter Winchell: The Power of Gossip for the PBS series American Masters. He holds two Emmy awards for directing and investigative journalism\, two Columbia duPont Awards for his films about the 9/11 attacks\, and Amnesty International’s Humanitarian Spotlight award for The Triumph of Evil\, about how US policy actively enabled the genocide in Rwanda. His work appeared on the first twenty seasons of the PBS series Frontline. His PBS specials include The People v. Leo Frank\, about an infamous case of antisemitism in the South and 1913: Seeds of Conflict\, about the impact of European Jewish migration to Palestine during the Ottoman Empire. His current film is about US propaganda\, censorship and the atomic bomb.\nArnie Bernstein is a historian and author with a passion for uncovering overlooked stories from America’s past. His critically acclaimed works include Swastika Nation: Fritz Kuhn and the Rise and Fall of the German-American Bund and Bath Massacre: America’s First School Bombing. His work has been honored by the Illinois State Library Center for the Book and the State Library of Michigan. He appears as an expert in the PBS American Experience episode Nazi Town\, USA and in Germany’s national public television documentary The American Führer: Hitler’s Deputy in America. He has served as a panelist for webinars hosted by New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage and was interviewed on the podcast Star-Spangled Fascism.\n\n \nFelix Etienne-Edouard Pfeifle\, right\, who will moderate\, is an architectural designer with considerable expertise in World War II. He graduated cum laude from UC-Berkeley and was a Fulbright Fellow in Vienna. He has taught at the New School for Social Research and was President of the Fulbright Association (Los Angeles) and the Los Angeles Bach Festival. He previously moderated our Sunday programs on Otto von Habsburg\, the Dutch heroine Hannie Schaft\, and the monarchies during World War II\, and he facilitated our program on the late Russian resistance hero Alexei Navalny. \nxxxxx \n\n\n\nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/walter-winchell-and-the-german-american-bund/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250914
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250915
DTSTAMP:20260421T044225
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SUMMARY:Operation Wedding — The Story of Soviet Jews Who Cracked the Iron Curtain
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nLeningrad\, 1970. A group of Soviet Jews who were denied exit visas plots to hijack an empty plane and escape the USSR. 45 years later\, filmmaker Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov reveals the compelling story of her parents\, leaders of the group\, “heroes” in the West but “terrorists” in Russia\, even today. \n \nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ September 12-15 view the film Operation Wedding on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, September 14 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\nAnat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov was born and raised in Israel and studied filmmaking in Israel and in England before embarking on a film career\, achieving success in both popular media and promotional productions. She is best known for her award-winning documentary Operation Wedding\, winner of 21 international awards. The film tells the story of her parents\, leaders of the 1970 Soviet “plane hijacking” plot that drew global attention to the plight of Soviet Jews and helped crack the Iron Curtain. She also developed the educational program Let My People Go\, created for the Prime Minister’s Office (Nativ) and the Ministry of Education\, which provides lesson plans and activities on the Soviet Jewry struggle to educators in Israel and beyond. \nGlenn Richter\, a political science graduate of Queens College in New York\, helped found the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry (SSSJ) in 1964 under the leadership of Yakov Birnbaum\, whose grandfather coined the term “Zionism.” Drawing on civil rights movement tactics\, SSSJ led innovative demonstrations\, lobbied Congress and coordinated with global activists to support Jews oppressed in the USSR. Following the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991\, SSSJ shifted to supporting Soviet Jewish immigration to Israel and rebuilding Jewish life in Russia for those who chose to stay. Glenn now devotes himself to Jewish volunteer work\, including monitoring court cases involving antisemitic violence. \n \nJanna (Lipmanova) Kaplan\, who will moderate\, is a Senior Research Scientist at Brandeis University\, specializing in Neuropsychology and Space Research. Her degrees are from the University of Leningrad. A former refusenik\, she came to the United States from the Soviet Union in 1982 at the age of 28 as a Jewish political refugee\, fleeing state sponsored antisemitic violence and intellectual and cultural suppression. In the United States\, she was able to rebuild her life\, find personal fulfillment and professional success. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed. \nxxxxx\nThis program is co-sponsored by the Soviet Jewry Movement Archives Project.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/operation-wedding-the-story-of-soviet-jews-who-cracked-the-iron-curtain/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250824
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250825
DTSTAMP:20260421T044225
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SUMMARY:Women's Resistance at Auschwitz
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nSabotage tells the dramatic and unknown story of the women’s underground operation in Auschwitz-Birkenau. It is a story of feminine heroism\, resistance\, hope and tragedy\, told through the eyes of Anna Heilman\, sister of Estera Wajcblum\, the youngest member of the women’s resistance group\, that also included Róza Robota\, Ella Gärtner and Regina Safirsztajn. These heroic women\, whose names we should remember\, helped plan and implement the Sondercommando Revolt of October 7\, 1944. \n \nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ August 22-25\, watch the film Sabotage on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, August 24 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nNoa Aharoni is an award-winning filmmaker known for her compelling documentaries and storytelling. Her documentary\, Shadows explores the complex legacy of the Holocaust through the experiences of the second generation\, garnered significant attention\, premiering at festivals such as Docaviv and IDFA and earning her a nomination for the Israeli Academy Award for Best Documentary. Shadows also received the Best Documentary Film Award at the Israeli Documentary Awards. Her debut feature film\, By Summer’s End\, was also recognized with a Distribution Award and an Israeli Academy Award nomination\, further showcasing her talent.\n\n\n\nDr. Jud Newborn\, left\, who will moderate\, was the Founding Historian of New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage and is co-author of the acclaimed Sophie Scholl and the White Rose. A dramatic multimedia lecturer\, he has spoken throughout North America\, at the UN and worldwide. He was awarded his PhD with Distinction by the University of Chicago following three years of adventurous fieldwork as a Fulbright and Woodrow Wilson National Fellow\, including hunting down former SS officers and working undercover during communist martial law in Poland. He was honored with the Anne Frank Center’s prestigious “Spirit of Anne Frank Award” and is the Emmy Award-winning Producer of Special Programs for Long Island’s Cinema Arts Centre.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAllan Eliyahu Mallenbaum has been a student\, researcher\, and educator of Holocaust Resistance since 1994 when he discovered that his 2nd cousin\, Rosa Robota\, had been the heroic leader of the women’s resistance at Auschwitz. A native of Brooklyn\, NY\, he is retired from a career as a marketing and advertising executive in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. Along the way he fought for Jewish causes in the JDL\, where he created the slogan “Never Again!” He also founded the Rosa Robota Foundation\, Jewish Survival Legion\, and Long Island Genealogy Federation\, and served as president of The Computer Genealogy Society. A Plainview\, NY resident\, he remains active in the Jewish War Veterans and other groups.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nxxxxx\nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/the-women-heroes-of-the-auschwitz-revolt/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening,Lecture
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250727
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250728
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SUMMARY:The Daring Rescue of Denmark’s Jewish Community
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nThe collective rescue action that saved about 95% of the Danish Jewish population in October 1943 is a unique story in the annals of Holocaust rescue. New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage currently has on view a must-see exhibition about this story\, designed for young people\, ages 9 and up\, and their families. Meet the curator who created this exhibition\, the historian who consulted on it and a Holocaust survivor who was himself born in Denmark. \n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ July 25-28 view the film Voices in the Void on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, July 27 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\n\nEllen Bari is the curator and project director of the landmark exhibition Courage to Act: Rescue in Denmark on view at New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage and designed especially for young people\, ages 9 and up\, and their families. She is an award-winning museum exhibit curator\, multi-media producer and children’s book author. She was instrumental in developing the Learning Center for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Over the years\, her projects have often pioneered new technologies for such clients as the Children’s Museum of Manhattan\, Sesame Workshop\, Nickelodeon\, American Express\, HarperCollins Interactive\, WNET and others. She holds an M.A. from Columbia University\, Teacher’s College.\nSteen Metz was one of the few Danish Jews not to escape in 1943. Instead\, at age eight\, he and his family were deported to Theresienstadt\, where his father died. Steen and his mother were liberated by the Red Cross in April 1945. They returned to their hometown and resumed their lives\, with Steen even returning to his old school. As an adult\, he left Denmark for England and then moved to Canada before settling in the United States. He now frequently speaks to the public about his Holocaust experiences in an attempt to prevent the occurrence of future Holocausts. He is a retired executive in the food service industry.\nTherkel Straede is a professor of contemporary history at the University of Southern Denmark and one of the world’s leading experts on the 1943 rescue of the Jews of Denmark. His newest book\, about the networks and motives of Jewish and non-Jewish rescuers\, will be published in August of this year. He worked with the Museum of Jewish Heritage on their landmark exhibition about the Danish rescue story. He operates a website about the Danish deportees in the Theresienstadt ghetto and has received a congressional citation by the U.S. Congress for his achievements in Holocaust research and education.\nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/the-daring-rescue-of-denmarks-jewish-community/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250622
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250623
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SUMMARY:The Last Nazi Hunter
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nThe film The Last Nazi Hunter tells the dramatic true story of Dr. Efraim Zuroff and his decades long efforts to bring Nazi war criminals to justice. See the film and then meet him in person. A rare opportunity!  Zuroff will be in dialogue with Dr. Mordecai Paldiel\, who will also speak about a few individuals who were both Nazi collaborators and rescuers of Jews\, and how Yad Vashem handled such cases. \nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ June 20-23\, watch the film The Last Nazi Hunter on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, June 22 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\n\nDr. Efraim Zuroff was the Director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Jerusalem. As the world’s last Nazi hunter\, he co-created the project\, “Operation Last Chance” that investigates and convicts Nazi war criminals. He is internationally recognized for his role in the arrest\, extradition and prosecution of Dinko Šakić\, the fascist commandant of Jasenovac Concentration Camp. Dr. Zuroff is the author of 500 scholarly articles\, publications\, and books about the Holocaust and related subjects. His works include: Occupation Nazi-Hunter\, Operation Last Chance\, Our People\, and the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s “Annual Status Report on the Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals.” \nDr. Mordecai Paldiel headed the Righteous Among the Nations Department at Yad Vashem from 1982-2007. His books include The Path of the Righteous\, Sheltering the Jews\, Saving the Jews\, Diplomat Heroes of the Holocaust\, and Saving One’s Own. He serves on the B’nai B’rith Commission to honor Jewish rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. He is also on the Board of the Sousa Mendes Foundation and\, thanks to his efforts\, there is now a square named for Aristides de Sousa Mendes in Jerusalem. He provided the list of 60 diplomat-rescuers honored by the US Congress in 2024 in the Forgotten Heroes of the Holocaust Congressional Gold Medal Act. \n  \n\nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/the-last-nazi-hunter/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250601
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250602
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SUMMARY:Aristides de Sousa Mendes -- The Angel of Bordeaux
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nThe film The Consul of Bordeaux is a semi-fictionalized feature film based on the story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes and the families he saved. Please join us for this free program on our inspiring hero! \n \nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ May 30-June 2\, watch the film The Consul of Bordeaux on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, June 1 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\n\n\nElizabeth Eames is a retired professor of cultural anthropology at Bates College in Lewiston\, Maine. Her mother\, along with four siblings and their parents\, fled from Lille\, France in 1940 and received life-saving visas from Aristides de Sousa Mendes. Then\, from Lisbon\, they sailed to the Caribbean before eventually landing in New York. She has been volunteering with African refugees\, immigrants\, and asylum seekers in Maine\, thereby manifesting both her African Studies background and her own mother’s history.\n\nJan de Moncada is a great-grandson of Aristides de Sousa Mendes. He grew up in Portugal\, and is currently an English teacher working in France. During his childhood and adolescence he watched his father António working hard for the recognition of the action of Aristides de Sousa Mendes\, which meant that there was a lot of discussion in his household about human rights and the suffering of the Jewish people. That upbringing helped him develop a moral and ethical compass that he hopes to transmit to his children and their generation.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGerald Mendes is the grandson of Aristides and Angelina de Sousa Mendes. Gerald was born in Montreal and lives in France. He worked all his professional life as an Industrial Engineer\, mostly in the pharmaceutical industry. Now retired\, he continues to do professional training in the areas of Supply Chain and Logistics. He first learned of his grandfather’s action in 1967\, after his father returned home from the ceremony in New York where the Yad Vashem medal was conferred. Gerald is a former Board member of the Sousa Mendes Foundation and has been promoting his grandfather’s legacy since the 1980s. He is a triathlete as well as a new grandfather to baby Jacob\, born in 2020.\n\n\n\n\nxxxxx\n\n\n\nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/aristides-de-sousa-mendes-the-angel-of-bordeaux/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250511
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250512
DTSTAMP:20260421T044225
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SUMMARY:Family Treasures Lost & Found — One Woman's Search for Answers
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nOn this Mother’s Day film-and-discussion program we present Family Treasures Lost & Found — exploring the quest of journalist Karen Frenkel to learn the stories that remained untold about her mother’s Holocaust survival experience.  \n \nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \n\nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ May 9-12\, watch the film Family Treasures Lost and Found on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, May 11 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\n \nKaren A. Frenkel\, right\, is an award-winning journalist\, author\, and documentary producer whose story is told in Family Treasures Lost & Found. She blogs for The Times of Israel about her parents’ World War II survival experiences\, fascism\, and political parallels today. Her previous award-winning documentaries include Minerva’s Machine: Women and Computing and Net.LEARNING\, both of which aired on public television.Her articles have appeared in Bloomberg BusinessWeek\, Discover\, Essence\, Forbes\, Scientific American and The New York Times among others. She co-authored with Isaac Asimov the book Robots: Machines in Man’s Image. \n \nMarcia Rock\, left\, is a documentary filmmaker whose films cover international dilemmas\, women’s issues and personal perspectives. Aside from Family Treasures Lost & Found\, her other award-winning films include UnReined\, about an Israeli equestrian champion who built the first Palestinian equestrian team\, SERVICE: When Women Come Marching Home\, Daughters of the Troubles: Belfast Stories and Dancing with My Father. She founded and directs the News and Documentary program at the NYU Carter Journalism Institute and co-authored with Marlene Sanders Waiting for Primetime: The Women of Television News. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/family-treasures-lost-and-found-one-womans-search-for-answers/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250505
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SUMMARY:Fred Korematsu — An American Hero
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nFred Korematsu defied the US government in 1942 when he refused to be incarcerated as a Japanese American. His case went all the way to the Supreme Court\, which ruled against him. He was finally exonerated in 1983\, in a landmark case that restored his civil rights and helped lead to reparations for all Japanese Americans who had been incarcerated during World War II. In 1998\, Korematsu received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The film Of Civil Wrongs and Rights tells his powerful and important story. \n \nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ May 2-5\, watch the film Of Civil Wrongs and Rights on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, May 4 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nDr. Rafael Medoff is the founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies and the author of more than twenty books about the Holocaust\, Zionism\, and American Jewish history. He has written extensively on the connection between the internment of the Japanese-Americans and the Roosevelt administration’s policy toward Jewish refugees. Dr. Medoff has taught Jewish history at Ohio State University\, Purchase College of the State University of New York\, and (currently) Yeshiva University. \n\n \nLorraine K. Bannai is Professor Emerita at Seattle University School of Law and Director Emerita of the Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality. After earning her J.D. from the University of San Francisco School of Law\, she served on the legal team that represented Fred Korematsu and successfully challenged his World War II conviction for refusing to comply with orders that resulted in the mass removal of Japanese Americans from the West Coast. She is the author of Enduring Conviction: Fred Korematsu and His Quest for Justice. \nEric Paul Fournier is a San Francisco-based filmmaker. His theatrically released documentary film\, Of Civil Wrongs and Rights\, tells the story of Fred Korematsu’s 40-year struggle for justice and Supreme Court challenge of the constitutionality of the Japanese American internment camps during World War II. Short listed for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature\, it won two Emmy Awards\, for Directing and Editing\, following its national television broadcast on PBS in 2002. The film\, which was named one of the 15 Best Films of the First 20 Years POV/PBS\, was rereleased by PBS in an anniversary box set. \nxxxxx\n\nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/fred-korematsu-an-american-hero/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Let My People Go -- The Women Who Began the Movement to Rescue Soviet Jews
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nThis film-and-discussion program tells the story of how a group of young Jewish women\, in Britain\, Ireland and several other western countries\, known as the “35s” because of their median age\, created an international movement to rescue persecuted “refusenik” Jews from the Soviet Union. In the new film Iron Ladies\, these remarkable women share their untold story on film\, joined by Natan Sharansky and others. \n \nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ April 4-7\, watch the film Iron Ladies on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, April 6 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\n\n\n\nSharon Rosen (right) is the former global Director of Religious Engagement at Search for Common Ground\, the world’s largest non-governmental organization dedicated to peacebuilding. She is featured in the film Iron Ladies as one of the activists in the group\, “the 35s.” A facilitator in interreligious programming and advancing religious freedom and reconciliation\, she worked with field offices in over 20 countries. She co-created the Universal Code of Conduct on Holy Sites for the protection of sacred spaces and for the past eight years\, directed a Jewish-Muslim religious leaders’ initiative to expand peace within religious communities in Israel. Born in the UK\, Sharon has lived in Jerusalem for 43 years.\nJanna Kaplan (left) is a Senior Research Scientist at Brandeis University\, specializing in Neuropsychology and Space Research. Her degrees are from the University of Leningrad. A former refusenik\, she came to the United States from the Soviet Union in 1982 at the age of 28 as a Jewish political refugee\, fleeing state sponsored anti-Semitic violence and intellectual and cultural suppression. In the United States\, she was able to rebuild her life\, find personal fulfillment and professional success.\n\n\n \nRoger Childs is the Senior Production Executive and Commissioning Editor of Religious Content at Ireland’s national broadcaster\, RTÉ and he is the Producer of the film Iron Ladies. A graduate of Cambridge University\, he has over 30 years’ experience as a producer\, executive producer and commissioning editor\, delivering a wide variety of award-winning content across many genres and all media\, for broadcasters including the BBC\, Channel 4 (UK)\, ARTE (Europe)\, PBS (USA)\, ABC (Australia) and RTÉ (Ireland). \n \nDr. Shulamit Reinharz\, who will moderate\, is the Jacob Potofsky Professor Emerita of Sociology at Brandeis University. While at Brandeis\, she created a graduate program in Women’s Studies as well as the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute for the study of the intersection between Jews and gender. She was born in Amsterdam and grew up in the United States with intermittent stays in Israel. She is the author or editor of sixteen books\, including the recent 100 Jewish Brides: Stories from Around the World and Hiding in Holland: A Resistance Memoir. She has participated in numerous programs of the Sousa Mendes Foundation.  \n\nxxxxx\nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/let-my-people-go-the-women-who-began-the-movement-to-rescue-soviet-jewry/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Sugihara Survivors
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nFleeing from Kaunas\, Lithuania in 1940\, thousands of Jewish refugees escaped by train across Russia and then by boat to Japan thanks to visas from the Japanese diplomat\, Chiune Sugihara. Many years later — as told in the film Sugihara Survivors — a Japanese writer\, Akira Kitade\, inherits a photo album with pictures of some of these refugees. He sets out on a mission to discover what became of these Sugihara visa recipients. \n \nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ March 21-24\, watch the film Sugihara Survivors: Jewish and Japanese\, Past and Future on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register.  \n⇒ Sunday\, March 23 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nSylvia W. Smoller\, who appears in the  film Sugihara Survivors\, is Distinguished University Professor Emerita in the Department of Epidemiology & Population Health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine\, where she first joined the faculty in 1969. She also serves as Dorothy and William Manealoff Foundation and Molly Rosen Chair in Social Medicine Emerita at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine\, as a principal investigator of their Women’s Health Initiative\, and as co-principal investigator for their site in the Hispanic Community Health Study. She is a fellow of the American College of Epidemiology\, the New York Academy of Sciences\, and the American Heart Association.\n \nRichard Hurowitz is a writer\, investor\, and the publisher of The Octavian Report\, the quarterly magazine of ideas. His article on Aristides de Sousa Mendes appeared in The New York Times\, and his book In the Garden of the Righteous has just been released in paperback by HarperCollins. He serves on the governing board of the Yale University Art Gallery and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was a co-founder of the Renew Democracy Initiative. He received his BA in history from Yale University\, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He earned a JD from Columbia University School of Law\, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and the editor-in-chief of the Columbia/VLA Journal of Law & the Arts.  He is a member of the New York State Bar Association. \n\n\n\nMadoka Sugihara is the granddaughter of Chiune Sugihara. She is the Chairwoman of the non-profit organization Chiune Sugihara Visas for Life. This Tokyo-based group aims to perpetuate the legacy of Sugihara’s humanitarian acts and support related activities at home and abroad promoting human rights and peace. It operated Tokyo’s only Holocaust-related museum from 2019-21. Madoka is actively involved in panel exhibitions and lectures across Japan and elsewhere to promote greater awareness of the deeds of her illustrious grandfather.\n\n\n\nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/sugihara-survivors/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:NOVA's Holocaust Escape Tunnel
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nIn this film produced by the NOVA science series and directed by Paula S. Apsell and Kirk Wolfinger\, cutting-edge technology reveals a Holocaust escape tunnel in a forest outside Vilnius\, Lithuania. Meet the lead scientist who discovered the escape tunnel and the daughter of one of the survivors who tunneled his way to freedom. \n \nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \n\nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ March 7-10\, watch the film Holocaust Escape Tunnel on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, March 9 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\n\nPaula S. Apsell\, left\, got her start in broadcasting at WGBH Boston\, where she joined NOVA\, a documentary series that has set the standard for science programming. In 1985\, she was asked to take over the reins at NOVA which she then ran for 33 years. During her tenure\, NOVA won every major broadcasting award\, most many times over. She has been recognized with numerous individual awards for her work\, including the 2018 Lifetime Achievement Emmy. She holds honorary doctorates from Southern Methodist University and Dickinson College. She founded Leading Edge Productions to make documentaries of scientific\, cultural\, and historical importance. Her feature documentary Resistance – They Fought Back was broadcasted nationally on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.\n\nHana Amir\, right\, is the daughter of one of the protagonists of the Holocaust tunnel story\, a story she first learned on a class trip to Yad Vashem when she was a senior in high school. Her father was one of the people who dug the tunnel and survived. Her family history led her to become a nurse\, specializing in psychiatric care. Every year during Yom Hashoah\, “Memory in the Living Room” takes place across Israel\, where second generation Holocaust survivors tell their family stories to the next generation. This is something that Hana does every year to keep her family’s history alive.\nKirk Wolfinger\, left\, is an Emmy and Peabody Award winning filmmaker who has produced\, directed and executive produced over 200 hours of series and specials including Holocaust Escape Tunnel. His forte is adventure and science programming\, a genre he has worked in since the 1990s. He has produced more than 30 NOVA specials on topics ranging from biological weapons to lost Nazi U-boats to climate change in Antarctica. He has worked closely with Nobel laureates\, renowned oceanographers\, archeologists\, historians\, astronauts and undersea explorers. In addition to Resistance: They Fought Back\, His other independent documentary feature\, The Rivals\, received numerous film festival accolades including Best Documentary Feature at the Phoenix International Film Festival.  \nHarry Jol\, right\, earned his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Simon Fraser University and Ph.D. from the University of Calgary. Harry is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America and is presently a Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire within the Department of Geography and Anthropology. He has conducted research with ground penetrating and other methods at over 1400+ sites around the world. In the past 10 years\, he has developed a unique Holocaust Mapping Program in the Baltics that includes undergraduate student investigating mass execution/burial sites. His research has been highlighted by multiple news outlets such as New York Times\, CNN\, Fox Science News as well as numerous documentaries including BBC and NOVA.\nDr. Jud Newborn\, left\, who will moderate\, was the Founding Historian of New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage and is co-author of the acclaimed Sophie Scholl and the White Rose. A dramatic multimedia lecturer\, he has spoken throughout North America\, at the UN and worldwide. He was awarded his PhD with Distinction by the University of Chicago following three years of adventurous fieldwork as a Fulbright and Woodrow Wilson National Fellow\, including hunting down former SS officers and working undercover during communist martial law in Poland. He was honored with the Anne Frank Center’s prestigious “Spirit of Anne Frank Award” and is the Emmy Award-winning Producer of Special Programs for Long Island’s Cinema Arts Centre. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/novas-holocaust-escape-tunnel/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:The Eichmann Trial
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nOn May 11\, 1960\, Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was captured in Argentina after a fifteen-year manhunt and whisked to Jerusalem to stand trial for his crimes against humanity. Told entirely through archival footage of the trial itself and contemporaneous news coverage\, The Eichmann Trial documents one of the most shocking trials in history and the birth of Holocaust awareness and education. \n \nxxxxx \n“As I stand here before you\, judges of Israel\, to lead the prosecution of Adolf Eichmann\, I do not stand alone. With me\, in this place and at this hour\, stand six million accusers.” — Gideon Hausner\, prosecutor of the Eichmann trial \nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \n\nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ February 21-24\, watch the film The Eichmann Trial on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, February 23 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nTamar Hausner-Raveh\, lawyer and daughter of Gideon Hausner\, the trial’s chief prosecutor\, remembered when she was 14 years old\, the day her father was appointed to the case and Eichmann entered her life. “My father shared with us his doubts about whether he could represent the victims without being a survivor himself\,” she said. But he found the inner strength to do so\, as reflected in his opening remarks of the trial: “As I stand here before you\, judges of Israel\, to lead the prosecution of Adolf Eichmann\, I do not stand alone. With me\, in this place and at this hour\, stand six million accusers.” \nElliot Levitt is a freelance documentary film director and editor who has been editing documentaries of all kinds for several years.  His work has been awarded with an Emmy\, aired on television and screened at festivals worldwide. The Eichmann Trial marks his directorial debut. He holds a B.A. in film from the University of Michigan\, and his previous documentary film projects include The Passengers\, The Last Signal and Elvis\, Rocky and Me. The Eichmann Trial premiered in 2023 at the Miami Jewish Film Festival\, and has been shown worldwide to great acclaim. It combines footage of the trial with contemporaneous news coverage to document how the trial was received by the public as it unfolded. \n \nDr. Shulamit Reinharz\, who will moderate\, is the Jacob Potofsky Professor Emerita of Sociology at Brandeis University. While at Brandeis\, she created a graduate program in Women’s Studies as well as the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute for the study of the intersection between Jews and gender. She was born in Amsterdam and grew up in the United States with intermittent stays in Israel. She is the author or editor of sixteen books\, including the recent 100 Jewish Brides: Stories from Around the World and Hiding in Holland: A Resistance Memoir. She has participated in numerous programs of the Sousa Mendes Foundation. \n \nDr. Mordecai Paldiel headed the Righteous Among the Nations Department at Yad Vashem from 1982-2007. His books include The Path of the Righteous\, Sheltering the Jews\, Saving the Jews\, Diplomat Heroes of the Holocaust\, and Saving One’s Own. He serves on the B’nai B’rith Commission to honor Jewish rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. He is also on the Board of the Sousa Mendes Foundation and\, thanks to his efforts\, there is now a square named for Aristides de Sousa Mendes in Jerusalem. He provided the list of 60 diplomat-rescuers honored by the US Congress in 2024 in the Forgotten Heroes of the Holocaust Congressional Gold Medal Act. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/the-eichmann-trial/
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SUMMARY:The Girl Who Wore Freedom
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nThe Girl Who Wore Freedom tells the story of D-Day as experienced and remembered by the local population of Normandy\, France. This film\, featuring a French girl paying tribute to her American liberators\, reminds us of the historic alliance between the two countries in defense of universal values. \n \nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ February 7-10\, watch the film The Girl Who Wore Freedom on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, February 9 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nChristian Taylor is an award-winning director\, producer\, writer\, and actor best known for her acclaimed documentary The Girl Who Wore Freedom\, which shares the powerful and emotional stories of D-Day from the perspective of those who lived through it. She hosts the Documentary First Podcast\, featuring conversations with filmmakers and industry professionals. The podcast offers a behind-the-scenes look at real-life storytelling and engages listeners from filmmakers to documentary enthusiasts. With upcoming film projects like Heroes of Carentan and The Brave Dutch\, she continues her dedication to historical preservation and meaningful storytelling. See: documentaryfirst.com. \n \nThomas Voisin (right)\, a Normandy native\, has been passionate about World War II history from a young age. He has traveled across Normandy\, meeting civilian witnesses of the June 6\, 1944\, Allied parachute drops and landings. Driven by a deep commitment to preserving this history\, he became actively involved in local associations\, using historical reenactments and events as tools to share the stories of those who lived through this pivotal time. In collaboration with Flavie Poisson\, he founded Normandy Discovery Tours\, a specialized guided tour company offering immersive experiences on the D-Day beaches\, using both vans and World War II jeeps. He appears in the film\, The Girl Who Wore Freedom. \nDavid Chapman (left) served in the US Army for 30 years\, retiring at the rank of Colonel. From 2015-19\, he served as the Defense and Army Attaché in Paris\, where he managed all military commemorative activities. He was responsible for organizing WWII D-Day commemorations in both Normandy and the South of France for the 72nd to 75th anniversaries. Now as Vice President of Public Affairs at Michelin\, he spearheads the company’s initiative to bring WWII Veterans back to Normandy\, having facilitated battlefield returns for over 100 veterans during D-Day commemorations for the 78th\, 79th\, and 80th anniversaries. He appears in the film\, The Girl Who Wore Freedom.  \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/the-girl-who-wore-freedom/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Unbroken — One Family's Story
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nOn May 20\, 1946\, after fleeing Nazi Germany\, the Weber siblings made headlines when they arrived in the United States by boat. The press reported with amazement that these seven Jewish siblings managed to survive the Holocaust together. But soon after\, in a twist of fate\, they were split up by the United States foster care system. More than forty years later\, the siblings finally reunited\, and began piecing together memories of their unlikely journey to freedom. \n \nBest Documentary Premiere — Heartland International Film Festival \nAudience Choice Best Documentary — Julien Dubuque International Film Festival \nAudience Choice Best Documentary — River Run International Film Festival \nBest First Time Filmmaker— Hot Springs Women’s International Film Festival \nAudience Choice Best Documentary — Berkshire International Film Festival \nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \n\nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ January 24-27\, watch the film UnBroken on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, January 26 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\n \nGinger Lane (right) is the youngest of the siblings whose story is told in UnBroken. She is an award-winning dancer and choreographer. She appeared in WTTW’s film Dance From The Heart\, won a 3Arts Award and a UIC fellowship\, was named one of Chicago’s notable women by the Mayor in 2022\, and received a Distinguished Service to the Dance Field Award from See Chicago Dance. She has served on the Board of Directors of the Ronald McDonald House Charities\, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago\, and ReinventAbility. In 2008 she conceived and produced Counter Balance: the Power of Integrated Dance. She serves on the Cultural Advisory Council for the City of Chicago. \n \nA life-long actress\, Beth Lane (left) finally stepped on the other side of the camera with her feature documentary film\, UnBroken\, as executive producer\, director\, and writer. Her directorial debut premiered in Indianapolis in October 2023\, followed by the West Coast premiere at the 24th Annual Newport Beach Film Festival and the East Coast premiere at the DOC NYC Film Festival. Beth established The Weber Family Arts Foundation\, whose mission is to combat antisemitism\, bigotry and hate through the arts by shining a light on stories of hope\, courage and bravery. A museum exhibition is in the works as well as a one-woman play\, titled LINA. \nAaron Soffin (right) is a documentary film editor whose award-winning films include Sebastian Junger and Nick Quested’s Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of Isis; DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus’ The Return of the War Room; Andrew Jacobs’ uplifting tale of a community of Holocaust survivors refusing to surrender their joie-de-vivre\, Four Seasons Lodge; and Andrew Berends’ verité portraits of Iraqi families\, Blood of My Brother and When Adnan Comes Home. He recently edited Ramona Diaz’ And So It Begins which premiered at Sundance and Beth Lane’s multiple audience-award winning portrait of her family history\, UnBroken. \nJonathan Snipes (left) is a composer and sound designer for film\, television and theater living in Los Angeles\, and he composed the soundtrack to the film UnBroken. He teaches sound design in the theater and film departments at UCLA\, and is a member of the rap group CLIPPING\, an American experimental hip hop group with Daveed Diggs and William Huston. CLIPPING is currently signed to Sub Pop Records. Jonathan has served as a composer and sound editor within a wide variety of visual media\, including documentaries\, narrative films\, short films\, television\, and music videos. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/unbroken-one-familys-story/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Here Lived...
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK \n\n\n\nIn our year-end program\, we honor the German artist Gunter Demnig\, creator of the Stolpersteine project. The film Here Lived opens as Demnig lays his 100\,000th stone in Nuremberg. It retraces his work\, journey and impact\, through the stories of families of Holocaust victims and survivors. As their stories merge\, we come to understand how the art project Demnig calls “social sculpture” has created a new way to help heal the Nazi horrors. This is one of the most unusual story-telling projects in history.\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nxxxxx\n\nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \n\nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ December 6-9\, watch the film Here Lived on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, December 8 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\n\n\n\n\nJane Wells is an Emmy-award nominated filmmaker\, best known for Tricked\, a documentary about sex trafficking in the USA\, and for the groundbreaking documentary feature The Devil Came on Horseback\, about the genocide in Darfur. As the founder of 3 Generations\, she has written\, produced and directed over 50 short films and videos. Her films have been selected by film festivals including Sundance\, AFI/Silverdocs\, Hotdocs\, Tribeca\, Montclair\, Nashville\, Thessaloniki\, Aspen Shorts Fest\, Red Nation and The American Indian Film Festival. Her award-winning shorts A System of Justice\, Native Silence\, Preserving the Holocaust\, and most recently A Kaddish For Selim have played widely on the festival circuit.\nAlexander Stukenberg\, featured in the film Here Lived\, manages the Stolpersteine project’s production and coordination in Belgium\, the Netherlands and Luxembourg and delivers public presentations to raise awareness about Stolpersteine. Born in Bad Harzburg\, Germany\, he has a broad professional background in logistics\, project management and global partnerships. After serving in the German Navy he joined the company TNT Express Worldwide\, where he managed special services and logistics\, including sponsorship coordination for the European and German Film Awards. Today he is proud to be working on the Stolpersteine project full-time.  \nJane Friedman is a long-time journalist with more than eighteen years’ experience as a foreign correspondent. She reported from Paris (for Newsweek)\, in Jerusalem (for The New York Times) and in Beirut and Cairo (for CNN and The Washington Post). She grew up on Long Island\, near New York City\, and had no idea she had any relation to the Holocaust because her parents\, refugees from Belgium\, repressed everything. The discovery\, in recent years\, has changed her life and her sense of who she is. She continues to write – but mostly now about her encounter with her family’s World War II reality. She recently traveled to Germany for the embedding of four stumbling stones to memorialize relatives who were either persecuted or murdered by the Third Reich\, an experience she chronicled in Moment magazine. \n\n\n\n Ulrika Grünwald Citron\, a daughter of a Holocaust survivor from Amsterdam\, was born in Sweden and moved to the US to pursue college. Her story is told in the film\, Here Lived. Upon graduating from Temple University\, she worked at WNET/Great Performances in New York\, followed by Swedish Broadcasting\, New York. Ulrika has chaired and co-chaired committees at the USC Shoah Foundation and the United Jewish Appeal of New York. She has pursued involvements in organizations aiming to educate about the Holocaust and genocide. She serves on the Board of Governors of the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam and supports the Stolpersteine Project in Amsterdam.\n\n\n\nxxxxx\n\nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/here-lived/
CATEGORIES:Award Ceremony,Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Royals at War
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK \nThis program examines the actions of the royal families of Europe during the Holocaust. The film Royals at War is in two episodes\, both of which will be available to all who register. \n \nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ November 17-25\, watch the films Royals at War\, Episodes I and II on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. The first episode will be available starting on November 17\, and the second episode will be available starting on November 22. \n⇒ Sunday\, November 24 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\n \nDr. Mordecai Paldiel\, right\, headed the Righteous Among the Nations Department at Yad Vashem from 1982-2007. Some of his books on rescue during the Holocaust include The Path of the Righteous\, Sheltering the Jews\, Saving the Jews\, Diplomat Heroes of the Holocaust\, and Saving One’s Own. He taught at Yeshiva University and Touro College and serves on the Board of the Sousa Mendes Foundation. Thanks to his efforts\, there is now a square named for Aristides de Sousa Mendes in Jerusalem. One of the chapters in his book Saving One’s Own is devoted to the Perelman couple\, Jewish rescuers in Belgium. \nMarc D’Antin\, left\, is the eldest son of Michaela von Habsburg and grandson of Otto von Habsburg\, Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary. Marc spent his childhood living in the United States\, Germany\, and Spain. He received a master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling in 2011 from the University of Central Florida and has spent his career working in education as a behavior analyst. He currently lives in Washington\, D.C.\, where he owns an educational psychology company\, Fit Learning DC. Marc spent many summers with his grandfather\, and even accompanied him as an aide on trips throughout Eastern Europe\, where Otto gave talks for the Paneuropean Union. These trips were some of the most formative experiences of his youth.\n \nFelix Etienne-Edouard Pfeifle\, right\, who will moderate\, is an architectural designer with considerable expertise in World War II. He graduated cum laude from UC-Berkeley and was a Fulbright Fellow in Vienna. He has taught at the New School for Social Research and was President of the Fulbright Association (Los Angeles) and the Los Angeles Bach Festival. He previously moderated our Sunday programs on Otto von Habsburg and the Dutch heroine Hannie Schaft\, and he facilitated our program on the late Russian resistance hero Alexei Navalny. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/royals-at-war/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241111
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SUMMARY:The Zookeeper's Wife
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK \nJan and Antonina Zabinski were the managers of the Warsaw Zoo.  There\, thanks to their efforts\, 300 Jewish men\, women\, and children were hidden in animal cages and in their home from 1939 to 1945. This remarkable couple was named Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem. On the panel will be Diane Ackerman\, author of the bestselling book The Zookeeper’s Wife\, filmmaker Slawomir Grunberg and Stefania Sitbon\, a living witness to this story. \n \nxxxxx \nTo order a signed and inscribed copy of the New York Times best-selling book\, scroll down to the bottom of this page. \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ November 8-11\, watch the short film Hiding Like Animals on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, November 10 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nxxxxx \nDiane Ackerman is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Zookeeper’s Wife\, that was made into a feature film. Several of her books have been Pulitzer Prize and National Book Circle Critics Award finalists. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences\, received an honorary doctorate from Kenyon College\, and was named a Literary Lion by the New York Public Library. She holds MFA and PhD degrees from Cornell University\, and has taught at Columbia and Cornell. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times\, The New Yorker\, American Scholar\, Smithsonian\, National Geographic and many other journals. She hosted a five-hour PBS television series inspired by her book\, A Natural History of the Senses. \nSlawomir Grunberg\, director of Hiding Like Animals\, is an Emmy-Award winning documentary filmmaker and a graduate of the Polish Film School in Lodz. His films include: Everything is in Your Hands\, Still Life in Łódź\, Karski & The Lords of Humanity\, Shimon’s Returns\, Castaways\, and many more. His film School Prayer: A Community At War\, screened on PBS\, received an Emmy Award and the Jan Karski Award for moral courage. Grunberg is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and New York Foundation for the Arts and Soros Justice Media Fellowships. His credits as director of photography include: Legacy (Academy Award nomination for best documentary feature) and Sister Rose’s Passion\, which won best short doc at the Tribeca Film Festival and received an Academy Award nomination for best documentary short. \n \nStefania Sitbon was born in Warsaw\, Poland in 1939 and grew up in the Warsaw Ghetto. In 1942\, her family was smuggled into the Warsaw Zoo by Jan and Antonina Zabinski. From there Stefania and her family were separated and sent to convents and surrounding villages. They were liberated in 1945 and reunited in Austria and Poland. In 1957 they emigrated to Israel\, Stefania was married. and she later moved to Canada. In 2014 she went back to the Warsaw Zoo for an emotional meeting with Teresa\, the Zabinskis’ daughter. Stefania and her brother Moshe are the only Warsaw Zoo survivors known to be alive today. She has three children and seven grandchildren. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed. \nSigned and inscribed books available! \nFor more information\, click here.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/zookeepers/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241027
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241028
DTSTAMP:20260421T044225
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SUMMARY:The Paper Brigade -- Cultural Resistance in Vilna
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK \nThis film-and-discussion program tells the story of the cultural resistance group in Vilna known as “The Paper Brigade.” Led by the famed Yiddish poet Avrom Sutzkever\, they risked their lives to rescue the cultural and literary heritage of the Jewish community in the “Jerusalem of Lithuania.” \n \nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ October 25-28\, watch the film The Paper Brigade on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, October 27 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nxxxxx \nHadas Kalderon (right) is an Israeli theater\, television and film actress\, a screenwriter and producer\, and she appears in the film\, The Paper Brigade. She is the granddaughter of the famed Yiddish poet Avrom Sutzkever\, who was the leading figure in this cultural resistance network. She studied acting in Moscow with Anatoly Vasiliev. When she returned to Israel\, she joined Rina Yerushalmi’s Itim Ensemble. Among her many roles is Clytemnestra in the Mythos project and Stella in Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire at the Beit Lessin Theater. In 2009\, she won the Rosenblum Award for Excellence from the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality. \nElisabeth Gallas (left) is the author of A Mortuary of Books. The Rescue of Jewish Culture after the Holocaust\,  published in 2019 and winner of a National Jewish Book Award. She is Deputy Director of the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture in Leipzig\, Germany. She received her Ph.D in Modern History from the Universität Leipzig in 2011. She was a Research Fellow at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute of Holocaust Studies\, and held a Minerva Research Fellowship at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Recently she was a fellow at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on Modern Jewish Legal and Cultural History\, the Holocaust and Aftermath Studies.  \nJonathan Brent is a historian\, publisher\, translator\, writer\, and teacher. In 2009\, he became Executive Director and CEO of The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research where he initiated The Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collection Project\, an international project to conserve and digitize all of YIVO’s pre-World War II collections in New York City and Vilnius\, Lithuania. In 2018\, he initiated the development of the YIVO Digital Museum of East European and Russian Jewish Life. In 2019 he received the Cross of the Knight of the Order for Merits to Lithuania by the President of the Republic of Lithuania in recognition of his work in promoting cooperation between Lithuania and YIVO and for the preservation of the prewar Jewish archives of Lithuania. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed. \nxxxxx \nThis program is co-sponsored by
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/the-paper-brigade/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:"We were the lucky ones" -- The Psychology of Kindertransport Survivors
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK \nInto the darkness of the Holocaust it is important to add true tales that are life affirming. My Knees Were Jumping; Remembering the Kindertransports was screened at the Sundance Film Festival and was short-listed for an Academy Award nomination. This film\, by Melissa Hacker\, focuses on the psychology of the child survivors and the transmission of memory from one generation to the next. The filmmaker’s mother\, the Academy Award nominated costume designer Ruth Morley (Taxi Driver\, Annie Hall\, The Hustler\, The Miracle Worker\, Tootsie\, and many more classic American movies) fled Vienna on a Kindertransport in January of 1939. She is a strong presence in the film talking about her experiences alongside other former child refugees. \n \n“Intimate… heartfelt…” — The New York Times \n“Unashamedly emotional.” — Newsday \n“A film of exceptional depth and resonance.” — The Forward \nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \n  \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ September 27-30\, watch the film My Knees Were Jumping on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, September 29 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\n  \nMelissa Hacker\, left\, is the Executive Director of the Kindertransport Association. She is a filmmaker whose documentary My Knees Were Jumping; Remembering the Kindertransports was short-listed for an Academy Award nomination and shown worldwide. A sought-after speaker\, she has consulted on the exhibits Rescuing Children on the Brink of War at the Center for Jewish History in New York and the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Without a Home: Kindertransports from Vienna at the Vienna Jewish Museum. She is the editor of two Academy Award nominated documentary films and serves on the Executive Committee and Governing Board of the World Federation of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Descendants. \nRachel Dahill-Fuchel\, right\, is a career educator\, native New Yorker\, and the daughter of a Kindertransport survivor. She and her father\, Kurt Fuchel\, are featured in the film My Knees Were Jumping; Remembering the Kindertransports. Her father’s story is considered a “happy” one\, as both his parents survived\, although the family was separated for nearly ten years. Unlike other children of Kindertransport survivors\, Rachel knew of her grandparents’ and father’s wartime experiences from an early age. Despite having had the gift of knowing her grandparents\, ripples from the trauma of those times has exacted a price. Opportunities to teach and discuss our shared history are necessary and invaluable\, towards better understanding and preventing future atrocities.  \nSusan Mirow\, Ph.D.\, M.D.\, left\, is a psychiatrist and medical researcher. She is on faculty at the University of Utah School of Medicine and former Clinical Director of Utah State Hospital and Utah’s Psychiatric Consultant for Youth Corrections treating at-risk youth. In her private practice she treats trauma survivors. She has interviewed Holocaust survivors and hidden children for Steven Spielberg’s Shoah project. As the daughter of a Holocaust refugee\, Dr. Mirow didn’t know her cousins\, aunts\, uncles and grandparents\, yet their silent screams from Auschwitz were given voice in her nightmares. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/lucky-ones/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240916
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SUMMARY:Sousa Mendes Museum Virtual Tour
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK \n\nThe Aristides de Sousa Mendes Museum is open! Please join us for this behind-the-scenes look at the exciting new museum in Portugal devoted to the Holocaust rescuer Aristides de Sousa Mendes. This program comes with the rare opportunity to view the film Disobedience: The Sousa Mendes Story free of charge! \n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ September 13-16\, watch the film Disobedience: The Sousa Mendes Story on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, September 15 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nMariana Abrantes\, who will moderate\, is a Board member and the Portugal representative of the Sousa Mendes Foundation. She has been the main liaison between the Sousa Mendes Foundation and the Aristides de Sousa Mendes Museum. A dual US-Portuguese citizen\, she studied Economics at UC-Berkeley and earned an MA from Princeton University. After training and working in Chase Manhattan Bank in New York\, she returned to Portugal\, where she worked at the European Investment Bank. She also served in the Portuguese government’s Ministries of Transport and Health and on the Boards of international investment funds and the Fulbright Commission Portugal.   \nJose Maria Lobo de Carvalho\, right\, is a Portuguese architect based in Lisbon. He was the Project Coordinator in the creation of the Aristides de Sousa Mendes Museum. He has a PhD in Architecture from the Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisbon)\, a Master of Arts in Conservation Studies from the University of York (UK) and a degree in Architecture from the Universidade Lusíada (Lisbon)\, having done part of his architectural studies at the Polytechnic of Milan in Italy. He has been a professor at the university for more than 20 years and currently teaches at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon. In 2015 he founded the heritage consultancy firm Conservation Practice. \nBritish artist Allan Drummond\, left\, designed and installed the Curious George room in the Aristides de Sousa Mendes Museum\, based on his acclaimed book\, The Journey That Saved Curious George\, with text authored by Louise Borden. He studied illustration at the Royal College of Art\, and graphic design at the London College of Printing. His many awards and accolades for illustration include a D&AD yellow pencil for his Royal Mail millennium postage stamp titled ‘the right to learn’ and awards from the National Science Teachers Association and the National Council for Social Studies. His latest books feature a pioneering mix of journalism and reportage drawing to create what he calls his ‘non-fiction reportage picture books’. \n\n\nJason Abranches\, right\, is a great-grandson of Aristides de Sousa Mendes After five years of working in Emergency Medicine\, Jason began pursuing other passions in the marine field and is now sailing for charter companies all over the world in places like Hawai’i\, the Caribbean\, Florida\, and most recently Portugal. Jason watched from a young age as his grandfather\, alongside others\, fought fiercely against all odds to restore the legacy and former estate of Aristides de Sousa Mendes before time ran out. Now as an adult\, he is here to share his perspective on what the historic grand opening of the Aristides de Sousa Mendes Museum means to him as well as the large overjoyed family who have seen decades of consequences for Aristides’ heroic actions in 1940 finally become reconciled.\n\nLuis Medeiros\, left\, was born in Carregal do Sal\, Portugal\, and moved to Canada as a teenager\, joining his father and brother there. He later relocated to Mexico\, in search of new challenges and a deeper understanding of the rich cultures the world has to offer. His curiosity and his passion for people led him to a career in journalism of more than 25 years\, covering politics\, sports\, current affairs and arts in both entertainment and news formats for television. After returning to Portugal ten years ago\, he joined TVI\, one of Portugal’s main television stations\, producing a variety of shows. In 2023\, he returned to his hometown\, and a happy coincidence led him to become part of the Aristides de Sousa Mendes Museum team. A dream job for a storyteller at heart!\n \n xxxxx\n\nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/sousa-mendes-museum-virtual-tour/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Heroes of the Jewish Resistance
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK \nPaula Apsell‘s stunning new documentary film\, Resistance – They Fought Back\, will be the basis of this film-and-discussion program. This groundbreaking film uncovers a deeper and fuller story than has yet been told\, using cutting edge techniques of documentation\, including forensic archeological investigation. Meet the filmmaker and two of the people interviewed in the film\, Dr. Steven Meed and Prof. Yoel Yaari\, whose mothers were the real-life heroes Vladka Meed and Bela Hazan. Dr. Jud Newborn\, a leading world authority on Jewish resistance during the Holocaust\, will moderate. \n \nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \n\nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ August 23-26\, watch the film Resistance – They Fought Back on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, August 25 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nxxxxx \nPaula S. Apsell got her start in broadcasting at WGBH Boston\, where she joined NOVA\, a documentary series that has set the standard for science programming. In 1985\, she was asked to take over the reins at NOVA which she then ran for 33 years. During her tenure\, NOVA won every major broadcasting award\, most many times over. She has been recognized with numerous individual awards for her work\, including the 2018 Lifetime Achievement Emmy. She holds honorary doctorates from Southern Methodist University and Dickinson College. She founded Leading Edge Productions to make documentaries of scientific\, cultural\, and historical importance. She has now completed a feature documentary about Jewish resistance during the Holocaust entitled Resistance – They Fought Back. \n \nSteven D. Meed\, MD (left) is the son of Vladka and Benjamin Meed\, Jewish resistance heroes. He was raised in a Yiddish-speaking secular Jewish home where the responsibility for preserving Holocaust memory and Yiddish culture was part of the family ethos. From high school on\, he was asked to translate his parents’ speeches from Yiddish to English. He is featured in the film\, Resistance – They Fought Back. Dr. Meed received his MD from the NYU School of Medicine\, and post-doctoral training in rheumatology and pain management. After retiring from practice in 2020\, he has been involved in retranslating his mother’s memoir\, On Both Sides of the Wall\, from the original Yiddish. \n\n\n\n \nProf. Yoel Yaari (right) is the son of the Jewish resistance hero Bela Hazan and he appears in the film Resistance – They Fought Back. He is the Henri and Erna Leir Professor for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases at the Hebrew University Faculty of Medicine in Jerusalem. Since 2015 he has been investigating Holocaust-related topics\, focusing on Jewish women serving as couriers and Jewish women interned in SS camps. He has published several articles and podcasts on these topics in public media. His documentary book Portrait of a Woman was recently published in Hebrew and is currently being translated into English. \n \n\n\n\nDr. Jud Newborn (left\, moderator) was the Founding Historian of New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage and is co-author of the acclaimed Sophie Scholl and the White Rose. A dramatic multimedia lecturer\, he has spoken throughout North America\, at the UN and worldwide. He was awarded his PhD with Distinction by the University of Chicago following three years of adventurous fieldwork as a Fulbright and Woodrow Wilson National Fellow\, including hunting down former SS officers and working undercover during communist martial law in Poland. He was honored with the Anne Frank Center’s prestigious “Spirit of Anne Frank Award” and is the Emmy Award-winning Producer of Special Programs for Long Island’s Cinema Arts Centre. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/heroes-of-the-jewish-resistance/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240811
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240812
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SUMMARY:The Egyptian Doctor Named Righteous Among the Nations
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK \nThe documentary film Anna and the Egyptian Doctor tells the extraordinary story of Dr. Mohamed Helmy\, who rescued a Jewish teenager in Berlin by disguising her as his Muslim assistant. He is the first and only Arab to be recognized as Righteous Among the Nations\, but his family refused to accept the award for decades out of fear of reprisal. Helmy’s nephew\, Dr. Nasser Kotby\, who finally accepted the award over his family’s objections\, is the first Arab Muslim to commemorate the Holocaust on film. Anna and the Egyptian Doctor presents a story that transcends the boundaries of time\, religion\, and politics. \n \nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \n  \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ August 9-12\, watch the film Anna and the Egyptian Doctor on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, August 11 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nxxxxx \n\n\n\nTaliya Finkel is an award-winning independent filmmaker and multi-disciplinary artist. She has written and directed seven films that have been broadcast and screened in festivals and on television worldwide. She has won seventeen international prizes for her work. Finkel earned a B.A in Literature and Cinema from the Open University in Israel. She specialized in acting for cinema at the Ruth Dayches acting school. She is also a graduate of the Alma School for Cultural Studies where she was the recipient of the AMITIM scholarship. She is a three-time winner of the America-Israel Cultural Fund for the Arts\, and also studied photography at Bezalel Academy of Art. After spending several years in Vienna\, she currently resides in Jerusalem. \nArtist Yaron Shin provided the animation for the historical sequences in Anna and the Egyptian Doctor. He has worked on TV\, film and cultural projects as Project Manager\, Art Director\, designer (Print/Motion)\, illustrator\, animator and artist\, particularly on subjects of Israeli politics and society. He holds degrees in Visual Communication and Design from the University of Haifa and HKU Utrecht\, The Netherlands. From 2013-23 he chaired the Department of Graphic Design and Animation at the NB School of Design (WIZO)\, University of Haifa. He is a member of the Saloona Art Group. His works have been presented in exhibitions worldwide and published in books and magazines of art and design. He is the founder and director of Jewboy animation studios. \nCarla Gutman Greenspan is the daughter of Anna Gutman\, the German Jewish teenager whose story is featured in Anna and the Egyptian Doctor. A native New Yorker\, Carla is a retired nurse. She is a graduate of Queens College and Downstate Nursing School\, and an ardent supporter of Jewish charities. In her free time\, Carla enjoys traveling across the globe\, hosting\, cooking\, baking\, and doting on her six grandchildren. Carla strives each day to honor the memory of Dr. Mohamed Helmy\, who risked so much\, so that Carla\, her children\, and her children’s children could live a full and prosperous life. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/egyptian-righteous/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240714
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240715
DTSTAMP:20260421T044225
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SUMMARY:The Vanished World of Roman Vishniac
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nNot to be missed! The photographer Roman Vishniac captured iconic images of Jewish life\, from the cafes of pre-war Berlin to the shtetls of Eastern Europe. His book A Vanished World\, produced in collaboration with Elie Wiesel\, is widely known. This film-and-discussion program presents the story of the fascinating man behind the photographs. \n \nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ July 12-15\, watch the film Vishniac on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, July 14 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \n \nEthan Vishniac is the grandson of Roman Vishniac and appears in the film Vishniac. He is a theoretical astrophysicist on faculty at Johns Hopkins University. He obtained his PhD from Harvard University and was a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton. He conducts research on cosmology\, large scale structure formation in the universe\, and the dynamics of shock waves. He has also taught at The University of Texas\, McMaster University and The University of Saskatchewan. He has been awarded a Presidential Young Investigator Award\, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship\, and the Helen P. Warner Prize of the American Astronomical Society. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. \n \nLaura Bialis is the award-winning documentary filmmaker of Vishniac. She directed and produced the critically acclaimed Refusenik\, a seminal film about the movement to free Soviet Jews\, which was released theatrically in fifteen cities\, broadcast on Israeli television\, and was released on Netflix. Her film Tak For Alt\, about Holocaust survivor turned Civil Rights activist Judy Meisel\, was honored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences\, broadcast on PBS\, and has been used extensively in Holocaust education classes. She holds a BA in History from Stanford University and an MFA from the USC School of Cinema Arts. \n \nDr. Jud Newborn (moderator) was the Founding Historian of New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage and is co-author of the acclaimed Sophie Scholl and the White Rose. A dramatic multimedia lecturer\, he has spoken throughout North America\, at the UN and worldwide. He was awarded his PhD with Distinction by the University of Chicago following three years of adventurous fieldwork as a Fulbright and Woodrow Wilson National Fellow\, including hunting down former SS officers and working undercover during communist martial law in Poland. He was honored with the Anne Frank Center’s prestigious “Spirit of Anne Frank Award” and is the Emmy Award-winning Producer of Special Programs for Long Island’s Cinema Arts Centre. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/vishniac/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240701
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SUMMARY:The Ritchie Boys
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nThe Ritchie Boys is a term used for American soldiers who trained at Camp Ritchie during World War II. At Camp Ritchie\, military instructors taught intelligence gathering and analysis to approximately 20\,000 soldiers. Several thousand of these soldiers were Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany who had immigrated to the United States and were then put in the position of interrogating Nazis captured by the Allies. This fascinating film-and-discussion program tells their story. \n \nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ June 28-July 1\, watch the film The Ritchie Boys on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, June 30 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \n \nBernie Lubran is the President of the Friends of Camp Ritchie\, a non-profit organization that seeks to educate the public on the achievements of the Ritchie Boys\, a unique US Army unit that trained in top secrecy and made valuable contributions during WWII. Bernie’s late father was a Ritchie Boy who fled Nazi Germany in 1938. Like most Ritchie Boys\, he rarely talked about his experiences\, and Bernie has devoted the past 20 years to researching and telling their stories. Bernie holds a bachelor’s degree from Kent State University and an MBA from New York University in international economics. He had a career at the Export Import Bank and the Treasury Department in Washington\, DC. \nKaty Self is the Director and Curator of the Ritchie History Museum. She worked at the McKissick Museum at the University of South Carolina from 2018-21. Her primary focus there was digitizing the university’s natural history collection. Since then\, she has worked and volunteered with several small museums. She holds a master’s in museum studies and a post-baccalaureate certificate in digital curation from Johns Hopkins University. Her research focuses on smaller institutions’ management\, best practices\, and digitization processes. She began working at the Ritchie History Museum in September of 2023\, and since then has thoroughly enjoyed learning about the deep history of Fort Ritchie. \n \nMark S. Zaid (moderator) is a Washington\, D.C. based national security attorney. He is repeatedly named a “Best Lawyer” in Washingtonian Magazine’s bi-annual designation for his national security or whistleblower work.  In 2017\, Mr. Zaid co-founded Whistleblower Aid\, a non-profit law firm that provides pro bono legal representation to whistleblowers\, particularly in the national security arena. He is the grandson of the late Rabbi David Max Eichhorn\, who with U.S. forces liberated Dachau Concentration Camp\, and he co-edited the book The GI’s Rabbi: World War Two Letters of Rabbi David Max Eichhorn (Univ. Press Kansas\, 2004). \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/the-ritchie-boys/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240609
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240610
DTSTAMP:20260421T044225
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SUMMARY:Randy Schoenberg's Time Travel Through Jewish History
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nA very special event! In the new award-winning documentary film Fioretta\, famed attorney Randy Schoenberg embarks with his son Joey on a journey across Europe in a quest to find their family roots. Schoenberg\, whose success in forcing Austria to return five Nazi-looted paintings to their rightful Jewish owner was told in the Academy Award-winning film Woman in Gold\, will be joining us in person and answering your questions. Moderating will be the celebrated genealogist Adam Brown. Not to be missed!\n \nxxxxx \nWATCH THE TRAILER\nxxxxx \n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ June 7-10\, watch the film Fioretta on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, June 9 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \n \nRandol “Randy” Schoenberg\, right\, was a founding partner of the law firm of Burris\, Schoenberg & Walden. There\, he specialized in cases involving looted art and the recovery of property stolen by the Nazis from Jewish families. Among his most prominent cases is that of “Republic of Austria v. Altmann” which resulted in the successful return of five paintings by Gustav Klimt\, including the “Woman in Gold\,” to their rightful owner\, Maria Altmann. Randy served as president of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust from 2005 to 2015. \nAdam Brown\, left\, is a frequent lecturer on genealogical subjects at conferences all over the world. He is Managing Editor of AvotaynuOnline.com\, is Project Manager of the worldwide Avotaynu DNA Project\, and was National Co-Chair of the IAJGS 2017 conference in Orlando. A strategic planner and attorney by profession\, he has led numerous boards and commissions pertaining to municipal planning and finance\, Jewish education\, and scientific research in Israel. \n\nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/randy-schoenberg/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240519
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240520
DTSTAMP:20260421T044225
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SUMMARY:Victory in Algiers! The Jewish Heroes of North Africa who Changed the Course of World War II
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nThis film and discussion program tells the extraordinary unsung story of how the Jewish resistance in Algeria\, led by José Aboulker\, ushered in the Allied capture of North Africa in November of 1942.  This was the first major Allied victory of World War II  (codename: “Operation Torch”) — an event that changed the course of the war and saved the Jews of North Africa from potential deportation. The film Shadows of Freedom tells the dramatic true story.\n \nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ May 17-20\, watch the film Shadows of Freedom on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, May 19 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nxxxxx \nFilmmaker and composer Amos Carlen (left) is an alumnus of the University of Toronto\, the Berklee School of Music and The Academy of Design. Films he has been a part of have been screened at Cannes\, Sundance and the Toronto International Film Festival. His music has appeared on the Grammys\, the Emmys and multiple TV shows including Big Love (HBO)\, VICE docs\,  Access Hollywood (NBC/Universal)\, Catfish (MTV)\, Two Broke Girls (NBC) and Care Bears: Big Wish\, to name just a few. His most recent documentary\, Shadows of Freedom\, co-directed by Aline Robichaud\, was an official selection of the Toronto Jewish Film Festival. \nDr. Robert Satloff (right) is the Segal Executive Director of The Washington Institute and the Institute’s Howard P. Berkowitz Chair in U.S. Middle East Policy. He is the author of Among the Righteous: Lost Stories of the Holocaust’s Reach into Arab Lands. He serves as advisor to the director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Middle East initiatives\, including service as vice-chair of the Museum’s Committee on Holocaust Denial and State-Sponsored Anti-Semitism. This has included breakthroughs in Holocaust awareness and recognition in countries from Morocco to Egypt to the United Arab Emirates.  He is the creator and host of Dakhil Washington (“Inside Washington”)\, a weekly news and interview program broadcast throughout the Arab world.  \n \nDr. Jud Newborn (left\, moderator) was the Founding Historian of New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage and is co-author of the acclaimed Sophie Scholl and the White Rose. A dramatic multimedia lecturer\, he has spoken throughout North America\, at the UN and worldwide. He was awarded his PhD with Distinction by the University of Chicago following three years of adventurous fieldwork as a Fulbright and Woodrow Wilson National Fellow\, including hunting down former SS officers and working undercover during communist martial law in Poland. He was honored with the Anne Frank Center’s prestigious “Spirit of Anne Frank Award” and is the Emmy Award-winning Producer of Special Programs for Long Island’s Cinema Arts Centre. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/jewish-heroes/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240505
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240506
DTSTAMP:20260421T044225
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SUMMARY:Crypto-Jews and the Search for Identity
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nA new documentary film Between the Stone and the Flower: The Duality of the Conversos profiles the life and work of the renowned genealogist Genie Milgrom. After successfully tracing her Jewish roots to pre-Inquisition Spain and Portugal\, she founded the Converso Genealogy Project. In this capacity she helps other “crypto-Jews” or “conversos” to reclaim their Jewish roots and is now overseeing the vast international effort to digitize the Vatican’s Jewish records.\n \nxxxxx \nWATCH THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \n  \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ May 3-6\, watch the film Between the Stone and the Flower on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, May 5 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nxxxxx \nGenie Milgrom was born in Havana\, Cuba\, into a Roman Catholic family of Spanish ancestry. In an unparalleled work of genealogy\, she was able to fully document her unbroken maternal lineage 22 generations going back as far as 1405 to her Jewish ancestors in pre-Inquisition Spain and Portugal. She is the past president of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami and past president of the Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies. She is the author of My 15 Grandmothers\, as well as How I found My 15 Grandmothers: A Step by Step Guide\, and Pyre to Fire. She brings awareness to the topic of people tracing their Jewish roots to the time of the Inquisition who are returning to Judaism. Genie is director of the Converso Genealogy Project\, digitizing Inquisition files around the world. \nDrora Arussy is the Executive Director of the Jewish Unity Through Diversity Institute\, unitytdiversity.com where she coordinates the Certificate of Sephardic Ancestry together with Genie Milgrom and Reconectar. She has produced eight online courses and organized international academic conferences in New York\, across Israel\, in Cambridge (UK) and in Rabat (Morocco) during her time as Senior Director of the American Sephardi Federation’s Institute of Jewish Experience. Drora is the co-editor of Jews and Muslims in Morocco: Their Intersecting Worlds (Lexington Press\, 2021) and author of Leah Nassi of Lisbon\, an historical novel (Amazon\, 2022). Her passion for pride in one’s identity is at the core of her endeavors.\n \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed. \nxxxxx \nThis program is co-presented with the Jewish Unity Through Diversity Institute and the Certificate of Sephardic Ancestry.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/crypto-jews/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240421
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240422
DTSTAMP:20260421T044225
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SUMMARY:The Courage to Care
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nIn this touching program\, author Peter Hellman tells the story of the Holocaust rescuer Leokadia Jaromirska\, Righteous Among the Nations. She rescued Shifra\, a Jewish baby girl who had been abandoned near the fence of a convent in Poland and sheltered her during the war\, sometimes in very perilous circumstances. Today\, Shifra Ivri is in her 80s and lives in Israel. Before the program\, see the touching film The Courage to Care\, narrated by Elie Wiesel\, about rescue throughout Europe during the Holocaust.  \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ April 19-22\, watch the film The Courage to Care on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, April 21 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\n\nxxxxx \n\n\n\nOmer Kotzer (left) is the Chief Design Officer of Nuance Audio\, a Tel Aviv-based startup\, and the son of the little girl in the story\, Shifra Ivri. He has told his mother’s story to numerous audiences. He met his mother’s rescuer\, Leokadia Jaromirska\, and heard many stories about her from his mother and grandfather\, who reunited with Shifra after the war. A Bezalel Academy of Art & Design graduate in industrial design\, he participated in an exchange program at the Parsons School of Design and Columbia University Business School.  \n\n\n\nPeter Hellman (right) is a journalist and author of seven books\, including When Courage was Stronger than Fear\, which profiles Christian and Muslim rescuers of Jews from countries under Nazi thrall. Originally published in 1980 as Avenue of the Righteous\, after the tree-lined path at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem that honors rescuers\, the book has gone through multiple American editions as well as British\, Italian\, Dutch\, Polish\, and Hebrew editions. The book includes an early description in English of the heroism of Aristides de Sousa Mendes\, Portuguese Consul in Bordeaux in 1940. Hellman also wrote the text for The Auschwitz Album\, reproducing the only known photographs showing newly arriving Jewish deportees at the killing camp in the spring of 1944. He lives in New York. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/the-courage-to-care/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240414
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240415
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SUMMARY:The Jewish Defense Committee of Belgium and the Rescue of 3000 Children
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nThe Comité de Défense des Juifs was established in Brussels\, Belgium in 1942 in order to protect the Jewish population from Nazi persecution. They assisted and hid approximately 10\,000 adults and 3000 children\, from 1942-44. Eighteen members of this group were honored in 2018 by B’nai B’rith International with the Jewish Rescuer Citation.  See a touching film about this heroic group and their legacy. \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ April 12-15\, watch the film Just a Link on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, April 14 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nWATCH THE TRAILER\n \nJust a Link – Teaser from Les Films de la Mémoire on Vimeo. \nxxxxx\nMEET THE PANEL\nBelgian filmmaker Willy Perelsztejn (left) is the producer of over forty films on the themes of history\, memory and identities through his production company\, Les Films de la Mémoire. The films cover a wide range of subjects on the memory of the Shoah\, the struggles of Judaism in the second half of the 20th century including Israel\, the liberation of Jews from the USSR\, the peace process between Israelis and Palestinians\, the restitution of property stolen during the Second World War\, the presence of the Carmelites at Auschwitz\, Yiddish song\,  and more. Aside from Just a Link\, some titles include: The Paper Brigade\, Modus Operandi\, Heim ins Reich\, Yiddish Soul and David Susskind: Story of a Mensch. \n \nDr. Mordecai Paldiel (right) headed the Righteous Among the Nations Department at Yad Vashem from 1982-2007. Some of his books on rescue during the Holocaust include The Path of the Righteous\, Sheltering the Jews\, Saving the Jews\, Diplomat Heroes of the Holocaust\, and Saving One’s Own. He taught at Yeshiva University and Touro College and serves on the Board of the Sousa Mendes Foundation. Thanks to his efforts\, there is now a square named for Aristides de Sousa Mendes in Jerusalem. One of the chapters in his book Saving One’s Own is devoted to the Perelman couple\, Jewish rescuers in Belgium. \nDr. Noémi Perelman Mattis is a retired psychologist in Salt Lake City\, Utah. She was a hidden child in Brussels during the Holocaust\, while her parents Chaim and Fela Perelman founded and led the Jewish Resistance there. She earned a JD from the University of Brussels and a Ph.D. in Psychology from Columbia University. She specializes in the treatment of adult survivors of childhood trauma. She has been a member of the Governor’s Commission on the Status of Women and a Co-Chair of the Utah State Task Force on Ritual Abuse. Dr. Mattis lectures widely and gave an invited address at the international gathering in Jerusalem in 2007 of the hidden children of Belgium. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/the-jewish-defense-committee/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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