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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/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250210
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250126
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250127
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241110
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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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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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240930
DTSTAMP:20260421T060318
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240915
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240916
DTSTAMP:20260421T060318
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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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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
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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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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240610
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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:20260421T060318
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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:20260421T060318
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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:20260421T060318
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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
DTSTAMP:20260421T060318
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240407
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240408
DTSTAMP:20260421T060318
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SUMMARY:The Secret Jews of Mallorca
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nThe Spanish island of Mallorca (or Majorca) has a secret history — a group of families who have been discriminated against for centuries because their surnames connect them to a once-suppressed Jewish heritage. Some members of these families have been inspired to return to the faith of their ancestors. American Jewish filmmaker Dani Rotstein tells their story.  \nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ April 5-8\, watch the film Xueta Island on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n\n⇒ Sunday\, April 7 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 \n\nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \nDani Rotstein moved from New Jersey to the island of Mallorca\, Spain\, in 2014. There\, he learned of the taboo history of the Conversos of the island. In 2018\, he founded Limud Mallorca and has run over 50 successful events promoting diversity and inclusion in the small\, yet growing\, Jewish community. During COVID he broadened the scope and now connects Jewish and non-Jewish guides all over the world with communities that are seeking quality virtual programming. In 2022 he produced and co-directed the documentary film Xueta Island\, which has been making its way through many international film festivals.  \n \nMariana Abrantes\, right\, who will moderate\, is a Board member and the Portugal representative of the Sousa Mendes Foundation. 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\, 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.   \n \nCandela Tzipporah Bonnin\, left\, is a student and aspiring poet who grew up in Mallorca\, Spain in a family of Xuetas (the secret Jews of the island). Candela\, who speaks three languages\, currently lives in Göttingen\, Germany where she is pursuing her international education. She is active with Limmud Mallorca\, an organization devoted to the Jewish life of the island today and its secret Jewish past. She has also organized events for the Göttingen Youth Community. She enjoys spreading awareness of the Jewish history of Mallorca by sharing her personal experiences as a Xueta\, who grew up in a Xueta family. She is currently in the process of writing her first anthology of poems. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/the-secret-jews-of-mallorca/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240324
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240325
DTSTAMP:20260421T060318
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SUMMARY:The Radical Audacity of Rabbi Heschel
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nRabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel fled Nazi Germany and became an authoritative voice not only in the Jewish community but in the religious life of America. His book\, The Prophets\, inspired Martin Luther King\, Jr. to invite him to take a role in the Civil Rights Movement. Heschel was an outspoken critic of the Vietnam War\, an advocate for Soviet Jewry and a pioneer of interfaith dialogue. Join the filmmaker Martin Doblmeier and Heschel’s biographer Rabbi Shai Held\, for a riveting film-and-discussion program moderated by Dr. Shulamit Reinharz. \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ March 22-25\, watch the film Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, March 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 \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n\n \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nxxxxx \nMartin Doblmeier\, right\, has produced and directed 35 feature length documentary films on famous figures of our time. His subjects have included Nobel Laureates Mother Teresa\, Elie Wiesel\, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Lech Walesa; civil rights leaders Andrew Young and Jesse Jackson; Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton and many others. Some of his most celebrated films include Bonhoeffer\, the story of the great German theologian and Nazi resister Dietrich Bonhoeffer. The Power of Forgiveness\, an exploration into the most difficult challenge all of us will face at some point in our lives\, and Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story. Among his many awards are three regional Emmy Awards and three honorary degrees. \nRabbi Shai Held\, left\, is considered one of the most influential Jewish thinkers and leaders in America. He is President and Dean of the Hadar Institute in New York City. Rabbi Held received the prestigious Covenant Award for Excellence in Jewish Education\, and has been named multiple times to Newsweek’s list of the most influential rabbis in America and to The Forward‘s list of the most prominent Jews in the world. He is the author of Abraham Joshua Heschel: The Call of Transcendence and The Heart of Torah: Essays on the Weekly Torah Portion.  His latest book\, Judaism is About Love\, has been published by Farrar\, Straus\, & Giroux. \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 the forthcoming Hiding in Holland: A Resistance Memoir in Four Hands. She has participated in numerous programs of the Sousa Mendes Foundation. \n  \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/radical-audacity/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240304
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SUMMARY:Journey to Freedom
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nFilmmaker Tanja Dammertz followed the Sousa Mendes Foundation’s pilgrimage tour Journey on the Road to Freedom in 2023 and produced this wonderful documentary film for the European cultural television channel\, ARTE. It chronicles both the physical and emotional journeys of the participants as they confront childhood memories and long-buried family secrets. xxxxx \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ March 1-4\, watch the film Saved by Sousa Mendes on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, March 3 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 \nTanja Dammertz (left) is a freelance journalist and the author of TV reports and documentary films including Saved by Sousa Mendes. After studying in Berlin and Montreal\, she worked as an author\, reporter and video journalist at SPIEGEL TV for ten years. Since 2014\, she has been working as a freelance filmmaker for documentaries\, which are mainly broadcast on ARTE and ZDF. Her films have taken her to places such as East Greenland\, India\, Brazil and China. She lives in Berlin and has two daughters. \n \nCorinne Zimmerman Maginsky (right) is the daughter and granddaughter of Sousa Mendes visa recipients. Ten members of her family were rescued from Nazi-occupied Europe by Aristides de Sousa Mendes in June of 1940. She participated in the 2023 Journey on the Road to Freedom tour and is profiled in the film Saved by Sousa Mendes. After college she taught Special Education\, and then moved into the garment industry. She worked for Neiman Marcus as a buyer and then transferred to the wholesale industry as a merchandizer and product development manager. Now retired\, she lives in Florida and Pennsylvania. \nDr. Heidi Omlor (left) is a Holocaust educator who was one of the co-leaders of the Sousa Mendes Foundation’s 2023 Journey on the Road to Freedom tour. She earned a PhD in Holocaust and Genocide studies in 2021 from Gratz College. She has been a member of the Sousa Mendes Foundation’s Educational Initiative Committee since 2019\, currently serving as its Chair. She is the author of “Aristides de Sousa Mendes do Amaral e Abranches: Diplomat\, Christian\, Savior\, Hero.” She has been teaching for 25 years\, currently teaching Social Studies in Ellsworth\, Maine.  \nDr. Shulamit Reinharz\, right\, 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 the forthcoming Hiding in Holland: A Resistance Memoir in Four Hands. She has spoken on numerous programs of the Sousa Mendes Foundation and participated in the 2023 Journey on the Road to Freedom.\n \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/journey-to-freedom/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240205
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SUMMARY:Curious George Escapes the Nazis
DESCRIPTION:2 PM LOS ANGELES • 5 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nThis is a film-and-discussion program about the movie version of Louise Borden‘s book The Journey that Saved Curious George. The delightful film Monkey Business: The Adventure of Curious George’s Creators explores the extraordinary lives of Hans and Margret Rey\, the authors of the beloved Curious George children’s books. See the film\, then join filmmaker Ema Ryan Yamazaki and historian Dr. Susan Zuccotti for a lively discussion. \n \nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\nxxxxx \n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ February 2-5\, watch the film Monkey Business on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, February 4 at 5:00 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 \nRaised in Osaka\, Japan\, by a Japanese mother and British father\, filmmaker Ema Ryan Yamazaki (right) grew up navigating between Japanese and Western cultures. After graduating from NYU\, she became the assistant to documentary mogul Sam Pollard. Her work has been shown on HBO\, PBS\, CNN\, and numerous festivals around the world. Her first feature documentary\, Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George’s Creators\, premiered at the LA Film Festival and won the Audience Award at the Nantucket Film Festival. She lives in Japan. \n\nHistorian Dr. Susan Zuccotti (left) is the author of the groundbreaking book The Holocaust\, the French and the Jews. She holds a PhD in Modern European History from Columbia University. She has won a National Jewish Book Award and the Premio Acqui Storia – Primo Lavoro for Italians and the Holocaust (1987). She also received a National Jewish Book Award and the Sybil Halpern Milton Memorial Prize of the German Studies Association for Under His Very Windows (2000) on Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust. She has taught courses on Holocaust history at both Barnard and Trinity Colleges. She has appeared as a historical expert in numerous documentary films. \n\n\nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/curious-george-escapes-the-nazis/
CATEGORIES:Book signing,Discussion,Film Screening
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240122
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SUMMARY:Who will write our history? ... and Other Heroic Tales of Jewish Resistance
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nThis program features the award-winning film Who will write our history? on the true story of the resistance fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto who\, in the face of certain death\, systematically and heroically assembled and buried an archive to preserve the memories of their lives. In conjunction with the film screening\, the Holocaust scholar Dr. Jud Newborn will put this inspiring story in the context of the wide variety of forms of Jewish spiritual and physical resistance practiced all across Nazi-occupied Europe.  \n  \nWATCH THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ January 19-22\, watch the film Who will write our history? on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n\n⇒ Sunday\, January 21 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished speaker.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \n\nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \n \nDr. Jud Newborn was the Founding Historian of New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust\, and 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. \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 forthcoming 100 Jewish Brides: Stories from Around the World and Hiding in Holland: A Memoir in Four Hands. She is a sought-after speaker and has participated in numerous programs of the Sousa Mendes Foundation. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/who-will-write-our-history/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:KLARSFELD — A Love Story
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nSerge and Beate Klarsfeld are best known to the public as Nazi hunters. Thanks to their heroic efforts\, Nazi criminals Klaus Barbie\, Alois Brunner\, Kurt Lischka and many others were brought to justice in Germany and France. In parallel with this effort is their tireless work to document the names\, faces and lives of the murdered Jews of France. They also continue to speak up for an inclusive multi-ethnic Europe and against the rising tide of extremist right-wing political figures and parties. The new documentary film\, KLARSFELD — A LOVE STORY\, documents their extraordinary partnership for justice. They will be interviewed on this program by Peter Hellman. Not to be missed! \n \nxxxxx \nWATCH THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ December 1-4\, watch the film KLARSFELD — A LOVE STORY on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, December 3 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 (IN ADDITION TO THE KLARSFELDS)\n\nxxxxx \nPeter Hellman (left) is a journalist and author of seven books\, including 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.\nMike Lerner (right) is the co-director of KLARSFELD — A Love Story. He is a multiple Oscar\, BAFTA and Emmy nominated documentary filmmaker with a career spanning four decades. He has produced films for Starz\, HBO\, Netflix\, Amazon\, BBC\, Channel 4\, Arte and many others. In 2007\, Lerner alongside Martin Herring and Ian Wright launched Roast Beef Productions\, a production company focusing on documentary films. His 2012 film Hell and Back Again (Oscar Nominated Best Feature Documentary\, Sundance Grand Jury Award)\, assessed the human consequences of the US invasion of Afghanistan. His latest film Defiant\, on the war in Ukraine\, is premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2023. \n\nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/klarsfeld-a-love-story/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231119
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SUMMARY:Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nWho Shall Live and Who Shall Die? is a 1982 documentary film that asks whether the United States could have stopped the Holocaust. The film combines previously classified information\, rare newsreel footage\, and interviews with the politicians who were in office at the time\, to tell a behind-the-scenes story of secret motives and inane priorities that allowed for the deaths of millions. \n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ November 17-20\, watch the film Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die? on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, November 19 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of guests.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \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. Dr. Medoff has taught Jewish history at Ohio State University\, Purchase College of the State University of New York\, and (currently) Yeshiva University. He is a Fellow of the Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research at Bar-Ilan University. His latest book is America and the Holocaust: A Documentary History (Jewish Publication Society & University of Nebraska Press). \nLaurence Jarvik is the son of Dr. Lissy F. Jarvik\, who was rescued from Nazi-occupied Europe by Aristides de Sousa Mendes. He produced and directed WHO SHALL LIVE AND WHO SHALL DIE? He is the author of PBS: Behind the Screen and Masterpiece Theater and the Politics of Quality\, and has taught at Johns Hopkins University’s Carey Business School; University of Maryland Global Campus; American University; UCLA; Cal State\, Northridge; Russian State Humanitarian University\, Moscow and as a Fulbright Professor at the University of World Economy and Diplomacy in Tashkent\, Uzbekistan. He received his MFA and PhD from UCLA and a BA in Philosophy from UC Berkeley. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed. \n 
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/who-shall-live-and-who-shall-die/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Among the Righteous — Arab Rescuers of Jews
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \n*** PLEASE NOTE DATE OF NOVEMBER 12 (CHANGED FROM OCTOBER 15) *** \nNot to be missed! Few people know that the Holocaust extended beyond the European continent\, into the North African countries of Morocco\, Algeria\, Tunisia and Libya. There\, Nazi Germany\, Vichy France and Fascist Italy sent thousands of Jews to forced labor and set up dozens of concentration camps for both local Jews and Jewish refugees from Europe. For 20 years\, Dr. Robert Satloff has been on a quest to find Arabs who rescued Jews from this persecution. The result is the powerful film\, Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust in Arab Lands\, and a companion book. \n \nxxxxx \nWATCH THE TRAILER\nxxxxx \n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ November 10-13\, watch the film Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust in Arab Lands on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n\n⇒ Sunday\, November 12 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. \n\nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nxxxxx \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.  \nDr. Mordecai Paldiel (left) 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. He is a member of the B’nai B’rith committee in Israel honoring Jewish rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/among-the-righteous-arab-rescuers-of-jews/
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Return to Life! The Story of Lena's 100 Children
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nThe film My 100 Children tells the story of Lena Kuchler-Silberman\, a Holocaust survivor and teacher in Poland who established an orphanage for 100 Jewish children in Zakopane\, Poland in 1945 and later brought them to Israel. Lena was a surrogate mother to these children — she clothed them\, fed them\, listened to their stories and gave them hope again. \n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ November 3-6\, watch the film My 100 Children on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n\n⇒ Sunday\, November 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 \n\nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \nOshra Schwartz Reim\, left\, is an independent Israeli filmmaker and the director of the film My 100 Children about Lena Kuchler-Silberman. She is also a screenwriter (Tied Hands\, The Komediant)\, and a film lecturer at the Open University and Tel Aviv University. She holds degrees from Haifa University and Tel Aviv University. She edited the film periodical Sratim and worked as a reporter and film critic in newspapers and magazines. She serves as a consultant on feature films and documentary projects for various film funding agencies and festivals in Israel. \nDr. Shulamit Reinharz\, right\, 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 forthcoming 100 Jewish Brides: Stories from Around the World and Hiding in Holland: A Memoir in Four Hands. She is a sought-after speaker and has participated in numerous programs of the Sousa Mendes Foundation. \nDr. Noémi Perelman Mattis\, left\, is a psychologist in private practice 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 of the hidden children of Belgium.  She will discuss the psychological aspects of Lena Kuchler-Silberman‘s action. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/return-to-life/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Lisbon — Harbor of Hope
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nView Pavel Schnabel‘s award-winning film\, Lisbon — Harbor of Hope\, then join us for the discussion. The film follows several Jewish families who escaped Nazi Germany to Lisbon from 1933-38\, before the outbreak of war.  For those families it was still permissible to settle in Portugal\, and the film interviews several of these survivors. The Sousa Mendes story is also told\, through the diplomat’s son\, Pedro Nuno de Sousa Mendes\, who was a witness and participant in his father’s rescue action. \n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ October 27-30\, watch the film Lisbon — Harbor of Hope on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, October 29 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of guests.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nxxxxx \nDocumentary filmmaker Pavel Schnabel was born in 1946 in Olomouc\, Czechoslovakia and studied at the Film and Television Academy in Prague. He emigrated in 1968 and settled in Germany. Pavel Schnabel has worked for many years as a freelance director and cameraman in Germany and has been awarded several international and German prizes and nominations for his films. In addition to Lisbon — Harbor of Hope\, his award-winning films include Now… After All These Years\, The Violin\, and many others. \nVivian Shapiro\, right\, from Toronto\, was born in Portugal to German Jewish parents. Her family’s story of escape is depicted in the film Lisbon — Harbor of Hope. She is a co-author of Entangled No More and the author of Go Vibrant!… notes and anecdotes on loving and living the joie de VIVre. As a teacher\, vice principal and principal\, and later Education Director of a charity for youth\, she spearheaded programs and conferences to empower disenfranchised young people. She is a recipient of the 2012 Amazing Aces in Action Award and the 2018 Celebrating Outstanding Women Award for Philanthropy\, for her work with the Herbert H. Carnegie Future Aces Foundation and the Toronto community. \n \nMariana Abrantes\, left\, is a Board member and the Portugal representative of the Sousa Mendes Foundation. Coming from a village in central Portugal\, she studied Economics at UC-Berkeley and earned an MA from Princeton University. After training and working in Chase Manhattan Bank\, she returned to Portugal\, where she worked at the European Investment Bank. She also served in the Portuguese government’s Ministries of Transport and Health\, and on the Boards of international investment funds and the Fulbright Commission Portugal.  She is a dual Portuguese-US citizen. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/lisbon-harbor-of-hope/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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