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Film screening and ceremony: Remembering Aristides de Sousa Mendes
Camp Gibraltar, on the island of Jamaica, was a safe haven during World War II for Jews escaping Nazi-occupied Europe. Some of the refugees who found respite there were Sousa Mendes visa recipients. Accordingly, Aristides de Sousa Mendes will be honored during a reunion of the families who once called Camp Gibraltar home.
Lecture: Journey to Freedom
Monique Rubens Krohn, SMF Board secretary, speaks about how Aristides de Sousa Mendes saved her family. In the presentation, she describes the Foundation’s Journey on the Road to Freedom tour and raises thought-provoking and timely questions about refugees and moral choices.
For more information: (215) 968-9110.
Houston Honors Aristides de Sousa Mendes
Refugees in Lisbon, 1940
The American Jewish Committee and the Holocaust Museum Houston are jointly sponsoring a commemoration of Aristides de Sousa Mendes in conjunction with International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Louis-Philippe Mendes, grandson of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, will speak. All events will be held at the Holocaust Museum Houston.
Schedule:
Thursday, January 26, 2017, 6:30 p.m.
Screening of Disobedience: The Sousa Mendes Story at the Holocaust Museum Houston. Free and open to the public.
Friday, January 27, 2017, 10 a.m.
Ceremony “Remembering Aristides de Sousa Mendes” with Houston Diplomatic Consular Corps and remarks by Louis-Philippe Mendes. Free and open to the public, but seating is limited.
January 26-February 26, 2017
In conjunction with the above events, the Sousa Mendes Foundation presents an exhibition of original artifacts, “Sousa Mendes and his Visas to Freedom.” On view will be passports with the original Sousa Mendes visas along with personal items of refugees rescued by Aristides de Sousa Mendes.
For more information, call (713) 942-8000.
Event WebsiteFilm screening: With God Against Man
The Moscow War Memorial Synagogue presents Semyon Pinkhasov‘s must-see documentary about Aristides de Sousa Mendes. In June 2013, Pinkhasov followed a group of visa recipient families, along with members of the Sousa Mendes family, as they embarked on a pilgrimage retracing their families’ footsteps of 73 years earlier. They were “searching for Sousa Mendes” – looking for traces and clues of a lost history in an effort to understand their personal pasts. In attendance will be the filmmaker as well as Sousa Mendes visa recipient Sarah Goodman, coming specially from Israel. 47 min.
Event WebsiteLecture: Aristides de Sousa Mendes — A Holocaust Hero and the Lives He Saved
Joan Arnay Halperin and Monique Rubens Krohn, both daughters and granddaughters of Sousa Mendes visa recipients, share their family histories to tell the story of how a single act of moral courage reverberates through the generations.
Free and open to the public.
Event WebsiteCeremony and testimonial: Remembering Aristides de Sousa Mendes
Monique Rubens Krohn will share the moving true story of how her family escaped Nazi-occupied Europe with the help of Aristides de Sousa Mendes.
Event WebsiteConference: Refugees, Statelessness, Migration, and the Work of the Joint”
Joan Halperin and Diana Cooper-Clark will speak about Polish refugees who escaped Nazi-occupied Europe via Portugal, many with visas from Aristides de Sousa Mendes, and found refuge on the island of Jamaica. The talk is part of a two-day conference organized by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
Event WebsiteFilm screening and presentation in Chicago, IL
Anshe Emet Synagogue presents excerpts from the film Disobedience: The Sousa Mendes Story. Paulette Freed, whose family was saved by Aristides de Sousa Mendes, will present the story of her family’s escape from Nazi-occupied Europe and her own pilgrimage to retrace her family’s footsteps to freedom. To register for the event, and purchase optional memorial candles, please go here: http://tinyurl.com/yomhashoah5778.
Event WebsitePresentation in Pinecrest, FL: “Leah’s Journey”
The Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami, in collaboration with Temple Beth Am, presents “Leah’s Journey” — a presentation by Rebecca Barber telling the dramatic true story of a 19-year old German teen who keeps a diary while she and her family desperately flee across Europe. Rebecca will recount the rescue by Aristides de Sousa Mendes of her mother, Leah Steppel, along with thousands of others.
Event WebsitePresentation in Wynnewood, PA: “Two Righteous Gentiles: Sousa Mendes and Sugihara”
The Jewish Genealogical Society of Philadelphia presents a program on the Holocaust rescuers Aristides de Sousa Mendes and Chiune Sugihara. Monique Rubens Krohn, Board Member of the Sousa Mendes Foundation, will speak about Sousa Mendes. Open to the public. $5 for non-members.
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