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Exhibition: Portugal, the Last Hope: Sousa Mendes’ Visas to Freedom
Exhibition including original artifacts such as dolls, passports, and identification cards carried by Sousa Mendes visa recipients as they fled Nazi-occupied Europe via Portugal with help from Aristides de Sousa Mendes.
Leon Levy Gallery and Mezzanine Gallery, 2nd floor
Sunday, 11:00am – 5:00pm
Monday and Wednesday, 9:30am – 8:00pm
Tuesday and Thursday, 9:30am – 5:00pm
Friday: 9:30am – 4:00pm.
Free and open to the public
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.
Film Screening: Disobedience: The Sousa Mendes Story
Presented by the Jewish Federation of Ottawa
Followed by Q&A with Louis-Philippe Mendes, grandson of Aristides de Sousa Mendes
Tickets by donation.
For more information contact: emoscoe@jewishottawa.com
Film Screening: With God Against Man
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The American Club of Lisbon is organizing this “Dinner with a Movie” event to support travel-study grants to the United States. This year’s study topics include American perspectives on the Sousa Mendes story. €35/ €50 For more information: office@americancluboflisbon.com or (+351) 21352-9308. |
Holiday Dinner
Aroma Restaurant in London, Ontario is hosting a festive holiday party to benefit the Sousa Mendes Foundation. Minimum donation $30. Reservation must be made by December 16. For more information: enquiry@bellnet.ca or (519) 435-0616.
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 New Jersey Film Festival presents Semyon Pinkhasov‘s must-see documentary about Aristides de Sousa Mendes. In June 2013, Pinkhasov followed a group of visa recipient families, along with members of the Sousa Mendes family, as they embarked on a pilgrimage retracing their families’ footsteps of 73 years earlier. They were “searching for Sousa Mendes” – looking for traces and clues of a lost history in an effort to understand their personal pasts. Co-sponsored by the Rutgers University Centers for Global Advancement and International Affairs (GAIA Centers). 47 min. Tickets $12/$10/$9.
For more information: (848) 932-8482 or njmac12@gmail.com
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.
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