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SUMMARY:Resistance of the Heart - A Valentine's Day Program
DESCRIPTION:The Rosenstrasse Protest is the nearly-forgotten story of a group of women in Berlin who faced down the Third Reich — and won! In February of 1943\, several hundred non-Jewish wives of Jewish men faced down Hitler’s genocidal policy and the SS to secure the release of their captured husbands. Nathan Stoltzfus is the world’s expert on this history\, and he will be in dialogue with historian Mordecai Paldiel as well as Ruth Wiseman\, whose family lived this story. \n\n\n xxxxx\nMEET THE PANEL\n xxxxx\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nNathan Stoltzfus is the Rintels Professor of Holocaust Studies at Florida State University. His book Resistance of the Heart: Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Nazi Germany won numerous prestigious awards. His other books include Hitler’s Compromises: Coercion and Consensus in Nazi Germany\, Protest in Hitler’s National Community: Social Unrest and the Nazi Response\, Nazi Crimes and the Law and Courageous Resistance: The Power of Ordinary People. He is currently co-editing a book titled Women Defying Hitler. He has established the Rosenstrasse Foundation to document this forgotten history. \nRuth Wiseman graduated from U.C. Davis in 1992 with a B.A. in International Relations and Russian. After college she spent a year in Russia\, where she interviewed Jews born in pre-Soviet times. Upon returning to her hometown of Berkeley\, CA\, she interviewed Russian survivors for the Holocaust Oral History Project. She was later approached by Survivors of the Shoah to be an interviewer and conducted more than three dozen interviews for the organization. Ruth is the daughter of Dr. Rita Jenny Kuhn\, a Shoah survivor from Berlin\, Germany who was detained at Rosenstrasse in February 1943 and released through the brave efforts of the women who protested the arrests. Ruth is the author of How the Moon Became Dim (Saturn’s Moon Press\, 2017). She is working on a version of the Rosenstrasse Protest for children.  \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\, Saving One’s Own: Jewish Rescuers During the Holocaust and The Righteous Among the Nations. He teaches at Stern College 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 as well as a street named for Raoul Wallenberg\, both in Jerusalem. He is a member of the B’nai Brith committee in Israel honoring Jewish rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. \n\nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed. \n\n 
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/resistance-of-the-heart-a-valentines-day-program/
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion
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SUMMARY:In My Mother's Footsteps
DESCRIPTION:Caught within the ever-approaching steel jaws of Nazi exterminators\, 19-year-old Leah Steppel from Dusseldorf successfully escapes Europe via Portugal — thanks to a precious visa from Aristides de Sousa Mendes. More than seven decades later\, her daughter Rebecca Barber retraces Leah’s footsteps to freedom. \n\n\n xxxxx\nTHE SCHEDULE\nxxxxx \n⇒ February 5-8 (optional) watch the film Disobedience: The Sousa Mendes Story ($6.99) on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register\, with film rental instructions. \n⇒ Sunday\, February 7 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the free presentation by Rebecca Barber in discussion with Robert Jacobvitz. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\n xxxxx\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nRebecca Barber is the author of In My Mother’s Footsteps: An Odyssey of Faith and Courage about her mother’s journey to freedom in 1939-1940 and her own journey in 2017 with the Sousa Mendes Foundation through France\, Spain and Portugal. Using meticulous historical research and clues her mother left behind\, Rebecca solves one mystery after another about her family history. Her presentation will include a dramatic reading from Leah’s exodus diary. She is a frequent public speaker to audiences at Holocaust museums and genealogical societies. Her book is available at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and at this link. \n \nRobert Jacobvitz\, who will be in conversation with Rebecca Barber\, serves on the Sousa Mendes Foundation Board. For ten years he directed the Jewish Community Relations Council of the Greater East Bay\, and it was in this capacity in the 1980’s that he began championing the cause of Aristides de Sousa Mendes. In 2005 he received the Aristides de Sousa Mendes Humanitarian Medal from the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation. He wrote a seminal article on Aristides de Sousa Mendes that can be read at this link.xxxxx \n\nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed. Instructions and links will be sent by email on Friday\, February 5 and again on the morning of the program to all who registered.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/in-my-mothers-footsteps/
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SUMMARY:Woman of Valor -- The Story of Hannah Senesh
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK • 9 PM JERUSALEM\nxxxxx \nThere are few figures in world history like Hannah Senesh. Possessed at a young age by the mission to save the Jewish people\, she was an ardent Zionist who moved to Palestine to help establish a Jewish homeland. Then\, in the midst of the Nazi genocide in Europe she volunteered to parachute into Yugoslavia en route to Hungary in an effort to warn and rescue Hungary’s Jews. Today she is remembered and revered in Israel — the land she helped build. Her poem “Eli\, Eli” was set to music\, and is widely known. This program will include a screening of Roberta Grossman‘s Blessed is the Match about Hannah’s life and action. Then meet the filmmaker who will be in dialogue with historians Dr. Michael Berenbaum and Dr. Mordecai Paldiel. Also joining the program will be the Israeli pop singer Avaya to speak about what Hannah Senesh means to her. A story everyone should know! \n  \nLISTEN TO THE SONG “ELI\, ELI” WITH WORDS BY HANNAH SENESH\, SUNG BY ISRAELI POP SINGER AVAYA\nxxxxx \n\n \n  \nWATCH THE TRAILER TO BLESSED IS THE MATCH\n\nxxxxx \n\n  \nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \nPhoto credit: Sundance Institute \nFilmmaker Roberta Grossman received the 2018 Washington Jewish Film Festival’s Annual Visionary Award for “creativity and insight in presenting the full diversity of the Jewish experience through the moving image.” Her feature documentaries about Jewish history and culture include Blessed is the Match (2008); Hava Nagila (The Movie) (2012); Above and Beyond (2014) and Who Will Write Our History (2018). She is a three-time recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and is the co-founder of the non-profit production company Katahdin Productions. \nDr. Michael Berenbaum is Director of the Sigi Ziering Institute and co-founder of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. His books include A Promise to Remember: The Holocaust in the Words and Voices of Its Survivors; The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum;A Mosaic of Victims: Non-Jews Persecuted and Murdered by the Nazis and Witness to the Holocaust: An Illustrated Documentary History of the Holocaust in the Words of Its Victims\, Perpetrators\, and Bystanders. He serves on the Advisory Council of the Sousa Mendes Foundation. \nAvaya is a singer\, songwriter\, and producer living in Israel. She is inspired by Hannah Senesh and proudly sings her poem\, Eli\, Eli. Throughout her musical career\, Avaya has pulled from an array of influences; her style has been described as a mixture of Adele\, Birdy\, and Freya Ridings. She was trained as a classical singer and has performed in countless venues across Israel and in the U.S. Avaya released her debut album\, Paper Cranes\, in 2017 (under her former artist’s name ‘AVIVA’). Avaya realized her musical passions early\, memorizing and singing Disney songs before she learned to speak. She began taking private vocal lessons when she was nine years old and majored in Classical Vocals and Music Theory at the Conservatory of Music of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her newest single\, B.B.\, was released on November 29\, 2020 on all platforms.  www.avayaofficial.com \nDr. Mordecai Paldiel headed the Righteous Among the Nations Department at Yad Vashem from 1982-2007\, and he is a prime mover in the effort to honor Jewish rescuers of Jews. His books include The Path of the Righteous\, Sheltering the Jews\, Saving the Jews\, Diplomat Heroes of the Holocaust\, Saving One’s Own: Jewish Rescuers During the Holocaust and The Righteous Among the Nations. He currently teaches at Stern College 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 as well as a street named for Raoul Wallenberg\, both in Jerusalem. \n\n\nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/the-story-of-hannah-senesh/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Escape to Ecuador -- a Jewish Safe Haven
DESCRIPTION:Eva Zelig‘s documentary An Unknown Country tells the story of European Jews who fled Nazi persecution to find refuge in an unlikely destination: Ecuador. This small South American country\, barely known at the time\, took them in when most had closed their doors. Featuring first hand accounts\, family photos and archival material\, the film opens a window on the exiles’ perilous escape and difficult adjustment as they remade their lives in what was for them an exotic\, unfamiliar land. \nxxxxx \nWATCH THE TRAILER\nxxxxx \n\n \n\n  \n\nTHE SCHEDULE\nxxxxx \n⇒ January 22-25\, watch Eva Zelig’s film An Unknown Country on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒  Sunday\, January 24 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the discussion with our distinguished panelists. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \nDr. Abramo Ottolenghi was born in Turin\, Italy in 1931. After Mussolini promulgated the racial laws\, his family emigrated to Ecuador in 1939. His family\, together with other Italian Jewish refugees\, founded LIFE — a pharmaceutical laboratory in Quito\, Ecuador. After pursuing his Masters Degree at the University of Pennsylvania he returned to Quito to work at LIFE. He then returned to the University of Pennsylvania\, obtaining his Ph.D. in 1956 in the department of Medical Microbiology. Today he is Professor Emeritus of the department of Medical Microbiology in the College of Medicine at The Ohio State University. Dr. Ottolenghi is active in Rotary projects in Ecuador and the Dominican Republic. Married for 63 years\, he and his wife Joan have four grown children\, 7 grandchildren\, and 5 great-grandchildren.  \nEva Zelig\, born in Ecuador\, is an award-winning producer/writer whose work has appeared on PBS\, The Learning Channel\, ABC\, and National Geographic TV. An Unknown Country was nominated for a New York Emmy award and best documentary by Barcelona Planeta Film Festival. She has won two Emmys: for the Learning Channel documentary\, Killer Virus\, and for her work on the PBS series\, Innovation. She has also been honored with awards from CINE\, National Educational Media Network\, American Women in Radio & TV\, International Film & TV Festival of New York. For the American Museum of Natural History she produced the first multimedia exhibition on climate change — winner of the American Association of Museums’ Curators Award. \nDaniel Subotnik\, who will moderate the discussion\, serves on the Sousa Mendes Foundation’s Board of Directors. The son of two Sousa Mendes visa recipients\, he is a Professor of Law at the Touro Law Center in Central Islip\, New York. He worked in the investment banking field before undertaking teaching positions in law and business at Northwestern University College of Law\, the University of Illinois\, Chicago\, Santa Clara University School of Law\, Seton Hall University School of Law and the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. In 2013 he organized a major event honoring Aristides de Sousa Mendes at the Touro Law Center. He appears in the documentary film\, With God Against Man. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
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SUMMARY:Return to Calais
DESCRIPTION:Return to Calais is a short documentary film linking refugees past and present. In 1940\, Paulette Szafran was a Belgian-Jewish teenager who fled the Nazi invasion of Brussels. She crossed into France and arrived as far as Calais\, where her family found temporary shelter during the catastrophic bombing. After the siege of Calais\, the family was compelled to return to Belgium\, where Paulette spent the war years in hiding. In 2018\, after Paulette died\, her daughter Edith Goldenhar embarked on a journey to retrace her mother’s exodus using her vivid wartime diary as a guide. In Calais\, she met with today’s refugees and with Care4Calais volunteers\, showing how empathy connects the dots of displacement across geography and generations.  \n  \n \nEdith Goldenhar is a writer whose articles and poems have been published widely. Return to Calais is her first film. Following its London premiere during Refugee Week in 2019\, Return to Calais toured U.S. festivals in 2020\, and will screen at the Paris Ethnografilm Festival in April 2020. The film is envisioned as part of a trilogy weaving Paulette’s World War II experiences as a refugee and hidden child to global crises and profound choices in our own times. Edith is co-author of Leveling the Playing Field\, a guide to gender equity and systemic change in the Jewish nonprofit sector. Her father\, Maurice Goldenhar\, was a Sousa Mendes visa recipient and a passenger on the ship SS Quanza that was rescued by Eleanor Roosevelt. \n \nJean-Claude van Itallie is a playwright who received a life-saving visa from Aristides de Sousa Mendes in Bordeaux\, France in 1940 after his family’s escape from Belgium. After growing up on Long Island and graduating from Harvard\, he became a seminal force in the explosive off-Broadway theater of the 1960s. He is the author of many plays\, including the watershed political piece America Hurrah; The Serpent with the Open Theater; Tibetan Book of the Dead or How Not to Do It Again; Light; translations of Chekhov’s major plays\, and his one-man show\, Confessions and Conversation. His latest play is The Fat Lady Sings\, and his latest book is Tea With Demons – Games of Transformation. Jean-Claude is founder of the Shantigar Foundation for Creativity\, Meditation\, and Engagement with Nature\, located on his old farm in Western Massachusetts.  \nMatilda Velevitch is a British playwright\, actress and volunteer for Care4Calais. Her critically-acclaimed play Three Mothers premiered in London in 2017 and completed a UK tour in June 2019.  Other works include After the Blue and The Netherlands. Her most recent projects\, Fabric of Our Lives and Broadway\, have recently been recommissioned. She is currently developing 1974\, a four-part series about the division of Cyprus. For the past five years\, Matilda has worked on the front line with refugees in Calais\, Dunkirk\, and Belgium and currently supports refugees in the UK\, many of them victims of horrific abuse. For refugees and witnesses\, hope is not a strategy. However\, by acting upon conscious instinct\, we can reinstate hopeful futures and form lifelong connections.   \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/return-to-calais/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Broken Branches -- Youth Aliyah and the Rescue of Jewish Teenagers
DESCRIPTION:A beautiful and touching film! This program will present the Youth Aliyah movement of the 1930s and its rescue of thousands of Jewish teenagers from Germany and Poland who would otherwise have been trapped by the Nazis. One of the leaders of this movement was the American-born Henrietta Szold\, who was also the founder of Hadassah. We will watch a short documentary film\, Broken Branches\, about Michla Gelfand\, a Polish girl of fourteen who was saved in this way. The film is gorgeous\, with a mixture of animation and live action\, and this is a rescue operation that is not widely known.  Not to be missed!  \nxxxxx \nSTILLS FROM THE FILM BROKEN BRANCHES\n(click on the thumbnails to enlarge) \n\nBroken Branches is the winner of the Pulcinella Award for Best Educational and Social Film\, Cartoons on the Bay 2015 | Best Short\, Haifa International Film Festival 2014 | Best Women’s Short\, Cleveland International Film Festival 2015 | Best Short Documentary\, Athens Ohio International Film and Video Festival 2014 | Gold Award\, The Robinson International Short Film Competition 2015 | Best Short\, Israeli Film Festival in Nice\, France 2016 | Best Short\, Athens Georgia Jewish Film Festival 2016 \nTHE SCHEDULE\nxxxxx \n⇒ January 8-11\, watch Ayala Sharot’s film Broken Branches on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒  Sunday\, January 10 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the discussion with our distinguished panelists. Dr. Shulamit Reinharz will provide the historical framework\, and filmmaker Ayala Sharot will take us behind the scenes and bring us into her creative process. Marcie Natan will speak about the continuation of Youth Aliyah today. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\nMarcie Natan (right) is the Chair of Youth Aliyah and is the Past National President of Hadassah. She has served the organization since her early twenties. Marcie joined Hadassah and rose to President of the Eastern Pennsylvania Region. A former National Vice President\, she has also served as Chair of Planned Giving & Estates\, Major Gifts\, Unit Assessment\, and Hadassah College. Her positions have included National President’s Training Chair\, National Secretary\, and National Treasurer. Marcie has traveled to Israel more than 100 times\, including visits during both intifadas and the 2006 Lebanon War. Her time in Israel has intensified her passion and honed the perspective she has brought to Hadassah’s National Board and Executive Committee\, and the Hadassah Foundation Board. \nAyala Sharot (left) is an independent film director and animator with a fresh approach to documentary film making. A graduate of Central St. Martin’s College\, in 2006 she directed Foreigners\, a short animated documentary about foreigners who live in London\, which was later adapted for MTV Bloom. Her film Broken Branches\, an animated documentary based on her grandmother’s life story\, has won many awards. Ayala is also an accomplished animation director\, and her work features in animated documentaries\, historical and educational museums\, music videos and title sequences for film and television.  \nDr. Shulamit Reinharz (right) was born in Amsterdam and grew up in the United States with long stays in Israel. She earned her B.A. from Barnard College and her Ph.D. from Brandeis University\, both in sociology. She is the author of thirteen books\, including American Jewish Women and the Zionist Enterprise (Brandeis\, 2005); Observing the Observer (Oxford\, 2011); and One Hundred Years of Kibbutz Life (Transaction\, 2011). Dr. Reinharz is a member of an Israeli research team studying differences in Covid-19 responses on kibbutzim\, moshavim and community settlements. She is completing A Memoir in Four Hands\, a book about her father’s Holocaust experience. Dr. Reinharz is a popular lecturer who has spoken frequently about Israeli films. In 2017\, she retired from Brandeis and became Professor Emerita. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/virtual-program-youth-aliyah-and-the-rescue-of-jewish-teenagers/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:The Jewish James Bond and Other Heroes
DESCRIPTION:Go behind the scenes and get to know some of the colorful characters who participated in Operation Zebra — the 1947-49 mission to help rescue newborn Israel’s 600\,000 Jews and provide a safe haven for Holocaust survivors. The heroes include the Jewish James Bond\, Yehuda Arazi\, the operation’s whimsical chief pilot\, Sam Lewis\, and its cowgirl flight instructor\, Elynor Rudnick. Meet Arazi’s grandson and namesake\, and Lewis’ daughter\, who was a teenager during the operation\, as well as Boaz Dvir\, who captured their tales in the 2015 award-winning PBS documentary A Wing and a Prayer and the 2020 critically acclaimed book Saving Israel. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \nIsraeli-American filmmaker Boaz Dvir tells stories of ordinary people who transform into trailblazers: an inner-city schoolteacher who becomes a disruptive innovator (Discovering Gloria); a truck driver who becomes a child-protection activist (Jessie’s Dad); a Holocaust survivor who sets out to kill his father’s Nazi executioner (Cojot); and a flight engineer who leads a secret\, illegal operation to prevent what he views as a second Holocaust (A Wing and a Prayer\, winner of Best Documentary at the 2016 Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival). He serves on the Journalism faculty of Penn State University\, where he also directs the Holocaust\, Genocide & Human Rights Education Initiative. He is the author of Saving Israel (2020). \n \nSandra Brown is the daughter of Operation Zebra’s chief pilot\, the late Sam Lewis. She was a high school student during the years (1947-49) her father participated in the secret\, illegal operation to provide an air force and weapons to newborn Israel. Before joining the operation\, Sam served as TWA’s first Jewish captain. After the operation\, Sam become El Al’s first chief pilot. Along with nine other members\, he stood trial in 1950 for breaking the US arms embargo and Neutrality Act. Sandra recalls attending the trial in Los Angeles and feeling surprised that her father was the only member of the team to be found not guilty. For 25 years she was the director of North Hollywood Adult Learning Center\, from which she is now retired. \n \nYehuda Arazi is the grandson and namesake of the “Jewish James Bond” and will share stories about his grandfather’s daring exploits. He lives with his wife and two children in Las Vegas\, where he works as a district manager at BenefitMall. A former software associate at Vanguard Integrity Professionals\, he graduated from California State University\, Northridge with a bachelor’s degree in the humanities. “I have felt honored my whole life being named after my grandfather\,” Arazi said. “It has been my privilege to continuously learn of his many contributions\, his daring missions and the bravery he possessed helping the establishment of Israel and arming of its army and air force with their first planes.” \nxxxxx \nRegistration has closed for this program. If you have registered\, you will receive confirmation and instructions on Friday\, January 1\, 2021 and again on the morning of the program.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/virtual-program-the-jewish-james-bond-and-other-heroes/
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion
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SUMMARY:Virtual program: Fiddler - A Miracle of Miracles!
DESCRIPTION:Meet our panel of Fiddler superstars! Join us for a Chanukah program celebrating the triumph of the human spirit. Steven Skybell is the award-winning Tevye of the Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish production that recently took New York by storm\, with musical direction by Zalmen Mlotek. Samantha Massell played Hodel in the recent Broadway revival\, and Mimi Turque performed in the original Broadway cast. We will watch Max Lewkowicz‘s dazzling Fiddler – A Miracle of Miracles produced by Patricia Kenner and then spend an uplifting hour together.  Lechaim! \n \nxxxxx \n \nAbove: Steven Skybell in the role of Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish\nxxxxx \nWATCH THE TRAILER\nxxxxx \n\nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\nxxxxx \n⇒ December 11-19\, watch Max Lewkowicz‘s film Fiddler — A Miracle of Miracles on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, December 13 at 3:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our all-star panel of guests.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \n\n       Photo: Allison Michael Orenstein \nSteven Skybell (left) most recently starred off-Broadway as Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish directed by Joel Grey\, for which he received the Lucille Lortel award for Best Performance by a leading actor in a musical. His Broadway credits include: the 2016 revival of Fiddler on the Roof (Lazar Wolf)\, Pal Joey\, Wicked\, The Full Monty\, Love!Valour!Compassion!\, Café Crown\, Ah\, Wilderness! Additional off-Broadway credits include: Babette’s Feast\, Cymbeline\, Antigone in NY (Obie Award). Other: Camelot (Helen Hayes nomination); Henry V (Shakespeare Globe\, London). TV/Film: Blue Bloods\, Elementary\, Chicago P.D.\, Cradle Will Rock\, Simply Irresistible\, Arthur Miller’s Everybody Wins\, and many other credits. He is a 1984 graduate of Yale University.  \n \nSamantha Massell (right) is a New York based actress and singer who has appeared on Broadway\, on television\, in movies\, in the cabaret scene\, and in commercials. She was last seen on Broadway as Hodel in the acclaimed revival of Fiddler on the Roof. She has originated lead roles in many world premiere musicals including Steven Schwartz and Charles’ Strouse’s Rags at The Goodspeed Opera (Connecticut Critics Circle Award for Best Actress)\, The Flamingo Kid at Hartford Stage\, and Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame at La Jolla Playhouse and Paper Mill Playhouse. On the small screen\, Samantha has held recurring roles on Mr. Mercedes and Chicago Fire and guest starred on NCIS: New Orleans\, The Good Fight\, and Elementary. BFA\, University of Michigan\, Phi Beta Kappa. @smassellsings www.samanthamassell.com \n \nMax Lewkowicz (left) has written\, directed\, and produced hundreds of productions for network and public television. His credits include award-winning films about the Dance Theater of Harlem\, Nelson Mandela’s struggle against Apartheid in South Africa\, as well as Across the Bridge\, a documentary about the American Military Doctrine in Germany during the Cold War and Ours to Fight For\, telling the stories of American GIs in World War II. He has won the Silver Screen Award at the U.S. International Film and Video Festival\, the grand prize of The Chicago International Film Festival\, and the 2003 Award of Excellence from the National Association of Museum Exhibitions. \n \nPatricia Kenner (right) is the Executive Producer of Fiddler – A Miracle of Miracles.  Previously she produced Ahead of Time\, a film that chronicles the astonishing life story of pioneer journalist and photographer Ruth Gruber. Both films have won prizes and critical acclaim. She is a humanitarian and philanthropist who serves on the Boards of the Museum of Jewish Heritage\, the Defiant Requiem Foundation\, Selfhelp Foundation\, Educational Alliance\, Carnegie Mellon University\, and the American Heart Association and is co-chair of the Community Initiative on Holocaust Survivors at UJA. \n \nMimi Turque (left) performed in the original Broadway production of Fiddler on the Roof\, playing Hodel alongside Bette Midler\, who portrayed her sister Tzeitel. Her first major role was as Louise in the 1961 national tour of Gypsy. Her Broadway credits include Lili in Carnival! as well as Antonia Quijana in the original Man of La Mancha. She played Jenny in the revival production of The Threepenny Opera on Broadway and portrayed Molina’s Mother in Kiss of the Spider Woman. She is a co-creator of the musical Blue Roses\, based on The Glass Menagerie. \n \nZalmen Mlotek is an internationally recognized authority on Yiddish folk and theater music as well as a leading figure in the Jewish theater and concert worlds. For the past 20 years\, he has been the Artistic Director and conductor at National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene. His vision brought to New York the critically acclaimed award-winning Fidler Afn Dakh (Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish) directed by Joel Grey\, for which he served as music director\, and will serve as musical supervisor for the international and national tours being planned. He brought Yiddish-Klezmer music to Broadway and Off-Broadway stages with the Tony-nominated Those Were the Days and Drama Desk Nominated Amerike – The Golden Land. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/virtual-program-fiddler-a-miracle-of-miracles/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Virtual program: Women of Valor -- Stories of Resistance in Paris
DESCRIPTION:4 PM US EASTERN TIME\, 1 PM US PACIFIC TIME \nIn February 1943\, at the height of the deportations from France\, a daring group of Jewish and Christian women banded together to stage the largest single rescue operation in wartime Paris. Please join Anne Nelson\, author of Suzanne’s Children\, and Joanne Gilbert\, author of Women of Valor\, as they describe these women — including Suzanne Spaak\, Sophie Schwartz\, Frida Wattenberg and others — who risked everything to fight back against evil.\n \n  \n \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nxxxxx \n \nAuthor Joanne D. Gilbert was profoundly affected by the stories told by her grandmother\, who had been able to leave Vilna\, Lithuania before the Nazis destroyed the Jewish community there. Joanne became dedicated to finding and celebrating the truth of Jewish heroism during the Holocaust. Her books Women of Valor: Polish Jewish Resisters to the Third Reich (2018) and A Victory for Miriam! The Little Jewish Girl Who Defied the Nazis (2019) have received outstanding reviews. Her next book Women of Valor: German\, French\, & Dutch Resisters to the Third Reich will be published in 2021. Along with the Paris walking tour company Sight-Seekers Delight\, Joanne is currently developing a walking tour of the Jewish Resistance in Paris. \nAnne Nelson is a prize-winning author who has written extensively about human rights and freedom of expression. Her 2017 book\, Suzanne’s Children: A Daring Rescue in Nazi Paris\, told the story of Suzanne Spaak and her extensive network to rescue Jewish children from deportation to Auschwitz. It was a finalist in the National Jewish Book Awards. Her previous book\, Red Orchestra\, described a leading anti-Nazi resistance network in Berlin\, and was an Editors’ Choice at The New York Times. Her current work\, Shadow Network\, deals with the political crisis in the United States today. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/virtual-program-women-of-valor-stories-of-resistance-in-paris/
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion
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SUMMARY:Virtual program: Searching for Sousa Mendes
DESCRIPTION:In June 1940\, Aristides de Sousa Mendes\, the Portuguese Consul-General in Bordeaux\, France\, issued life-saving visas to thousands of Holocaust refugees in defiance of his government’s direct orders – an action for which he paid a heavy personal price. In June 2013\, filmmaker Semyon Pinkhasov followed a group of visa recipient families\, along with members of the Sousa Mendes family\, as they embarked on the Sousa Mendes Foundation’s Journey on the Road to Freedom\, retracing their families’ footsteps. They were “searching for Sousa Mendes” – looking for traces and clues of a lost history in an effort to understand their personal pasts.\n \nxxxxx \nWATCH THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\nxxxxx \n⇒ November 27-30\, watch Semyon Pinkhasov’s film With God Against Man on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, November 29 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the discussion with our distinguished panelists.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANELISTS\nxxxxx \n \nBorn in the Soviet Union\, Semyon Pinkhasov immigrated to the United States in 1977. A championship fencer\, he was the Fencing Coach for U.S. Pan American\, Olympic\, and Maccabiah Teams. As a filmmaker he is drawn to stories of individuals who act heroically in the face of totalitarianism\, such as the story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes. His inspiration derives from the interplay between the various aspects of his background\, including sports\, politics and the arts. His award-winning documentaries include Sport and Peace\, What If? The Helene Mayer Story and others. His latest film\, You Be the Judge\, describes how the Nazi occupation of Britain’s Channel Islands tested established notions of leadership and patriotism. Semyon lives in New York. \n \nJoan Arnay Halperin\, daughter of Sousa Mendes visa recipients\, holds a BA in Speech and Drama from the University of Wisconsin and an MA in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages from Adelphi University. In 2013 and 2016 Joan participated in the Sousa Mendes Foundation’s Journey on the Road to Freedom which was the impetus for her book My Sister’s Eyes: A Family Chronicle of Rescue and Loss During World War II. Joan presents her story at synagogues\, middle and high schools\, colleges and Holocaust teacher training workshops. She has served on the Board of the Sousa Mendes Foundation and as the Director of its Educational Initiatives Committee\, on which she continues to serve as a member. \n \nDr. Mordecai Paldiel (left) 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\, Saving One’s Own: Jewish Rescuers During the Holocaust and The Righteous Among the Nations. He teaches at Stern College 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 as well as a street named for Raoul Wallenberg\, both in Jerusalem. He is a member of the B’nai Brith committee in Israel honoring Jewish rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. \nArchitect and designer Eric Moed (right) designed a temporary installation in front of the Sousa Mendes home in Portugal. His projects have been featured in The New York Times\, The International Herald Tribune\, Haaretz\, NPR\, the BBC\, Tablet Magazine\, Architizer\, and Archinect. He holds a Masters in Design Studies from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelors of Architecture from the Pratt Institute School of Architecture. In 2020 he co-founded the design studio Office of Open Practice Studio/Agency (oopsa). The grandson and great-grandson of Sousa Mendes visa recipients\, he is a former Board member of the Sousa Mendes Foundation. \nxxxxx \n \nGive the gift of inspiration! Get your signed and inscribed copy of My Sister’s Eyes for $19.95 plus priority shipping within the US (total: $23.94). This lushly illustrated full-color 96-page book in large format is the perfect holiday gift for young and old! To order the book\, click here. Then send a message to info@mysisterseyes.com indicating how the author’s inscription should read and where to send it. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/searching-for-sousa-mendes/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Virtual program: Safe Haven in Iowa\, an Untold Story
DESCRIPTION:Did you know that there were Jewish refugees in Iowa during World War II?  Tune in to learn about this fascinating and untold story. Meet Edith Lichtenstein Froehlig\, originally from Limburg\, Germany\, who was brought by the Quakers to Iowa\, where she lived in a converted schoolhouse called Scattergood Hostel as one of 185 Jewish refugees. She will be in dialogue with Dr. Michael Luick-Thrams\, the world’s expert on this story\, and they will take your questions. We will also watch a short film on this history called Out of Hitler’s Reach produced by the PBS station in Iowa. \nxxxxx \nAbove:  Edith Lichtenstein (holding kitten) sits with her brother Louis and two other child refugees at Scattergood Hostel\, West Branch\, Iowa\, ca.1942. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nxxxxx \nMichael Luick-Thrams is the leading world authority on the story of how the Quakers brought Jewish refugees to Iowa during World War II and saved their lives. He is the Executive Director of TRACES Center for History and Culture and the author of Out of Hitler’s Reach: The Scattergood Hostel for European Refugees\, 1939-43 (1997) and Creating “New Americans”: World War II-Era European Refugees’ Formation of American Identities (2020). He has also written and spoken about the correspondence between Anne Frank and her Iowa penpal\, 10-year-old Juanita Wagner. Born and raised in Iowa\, Michael Luick-Thrams lives and teaches in Germany. \n \nEdith Lichtenstein Froehlig was born in Limburg\, Germany and found a safe haven in Iowa after escaping Nazi-occupied Europe. In Iowa she and her brother attended public schools while their parents were given English lessons and taught to integrate into American life. When her family was deemed “ready” after ten months in Iowa\, they were relocated by the Quakers to Minnesota\, where she spent the remainder of her childhood. She then attended Macalester College in Saint Paul\, Minnesota\, where her father had joined the faculty. Today she is retired from a career in education. \n \nDonald Davis is the archivist for the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)\, a Quaker organization that promotes lasting peace with justice\, as a practical expression of faith in action. The AFSC archives contain records from its founding in 1917 to current work in immigration\, peace building and social/economic justice. The primary sources contained in the AFSC archives provide a level of forethought\, analysis\, detail\, and perspective that is not often seen in historical documentation. One of his primary goals is to make the historically significant work of the American Friends Service Committee more widely known throughout the world. \nxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed. \n 
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/safe-haven-in-iowa/
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion
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SUMMARY:Virtual film and discussion: Das Kind
DESCRIPTION:LOS ANGELES\, 11 AM • NEW YORK\, 2 PM\nPARIS\, 8 PM • JERUSALEM\, 9 PM\nxxxxx \nNot to be missed! Join us for a remarkable true story told by French-Israeli filmmaker Yonathan Levy in Das Kind\, winner of Best Film at the European Independent Film Festival in Paris. Irma Miko\, a concert pianist born in Czernowitz\, joined the French Resistance in Paris in 1941. Her impossibly dangerous mission was to convert occupying German soldiers to the cause of the French Resistance. She narrates her history to her son\, André Miko\, as the two of them visit places from her past. Then we witness her reunion with one of the Nazi soldiers whom she had successfully transformed into a Resistance fighter during the war. Levy’s cinematically creative approach to storytelling\, which includes photo projections and theatrical set pieces performed by Irma’s granddaughter Sarah Miko\, brings to life one woman’s heroic struggle.  \nxxxxx \nWATCH THE TRAILER\n  \n \n\nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\nxxxxx \n⇒ November 13-16\, any time\, watch the film on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ November 15 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the discussion with our distinguished panelists.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nxxxxx \n \nFrench-Israeli filmmaker Yonathan Levy (right) started making films at a young age. In 2004\, his short film Scope Tour Retour was selected and won prizes in festivals around the world and was presented on French TV. In 2010\, he completed the production and direction of his first feature documentary film\, Das Kind\, which was also selected and won prizes in numerous festivals around the world\, before being theatrically released in France in 2013. Currently\, Levy is completing his new feature documentary film Museum which will be theatrically released in late 2021 and can be supported here. \nAndré Miko (left) is the son of the film’s central character\, Irma Miko (still living in Paris at age 105) and her late husband Julien Miko. André Miko was born in France in 1946. He is retired from a 28-year management career with Unilever in France\, the United Kingdom\, the Netherlands and Hungary. He studied literature at the Sorbonne and economics and finance at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris. He is married to Marise Kepes\, a gynecologist\, and they have two children\, Sarah and David\, one of whom is featured in the film. He established the film production company Blima in 2007 in order to finance the production of the film Das Kind. \nAnne Nelson is a prize-winning author who has written extensively about human rights and freedom of expression. Her 2017 book\, Suzanne’s Children: A Daring Rescue in Nazi Paris\, told the story of Suzanne Spaak and her extensive network to rescue Jewish children from deportation to Auschwitz. It was a finalist in the National Jewish Book Awards. Her previous book\, Red Orchestra\, described a leading anti-Nazi resistance network in Berlin\, and was an Editors’ Choice at The New York Times. Her current work\, Shadow Network\, deals with the political crisis in the United States today. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/virtual-film-and-discussion-das-kind/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Virtual film and discussion: A Wing and a Prayer
DESCRIPTION:An American hero you never learned about in school! This film tells the remarkable yet little known story of Al Schwimmer\, a TWA flight engineer who assembled a group of American pilots and others to rescue the newborn state of Israel. They succeeded in their secret and daring mission but were tried and convicted by the US government.  “Al Schwimmer is the greatest gift America gave Israel.” – David Ben-Gurion \nxxxxx \nWATCH THE TRAILER\nxxxxx \n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\nxxxxx \n⇒ November 6-8\, any time\, watch the film on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ November 8 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the discussion with our distinguished panelists.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\n  \nIsraeli-American filmmaker Boaz Dvir tells stories of ordinary people who transform into trailblazers: an inner-city schoolteacher who becomes a disruptive innovator (Discovering Gloria); a truck driver who becomes a child-protection activist (Jessie’s Dad); a Holocaust survivor who sets out to kill his father’s Nazi executioner (Cojot); and a flight engineer who leads a secret\, illegal operation to prevent what he views as a second Holocaust (A Wing and a Prayer\, winner of Best Documentary at the 2016 Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival). He serves on the Journalism faculty of Penn State University\, where he also directs the Holocaust\, Genocide & Human Rights Education Initiative. He is the author of Saving Israel (2020). \n \nEliyana R. Adler is Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies at Penn State University. Her current work focuses on the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust\, and she is the historical consultant for Penn State’s Holocaust\, Genocide & Human Rights Education Initiative. She is the author of Survival on the Margins: Polish Jewish Refugees in the Wartime Soviet Union (2020) and In Her Hands: The Education of Jewish Girls in Tsarist Russia (2011). She is co-editor of Jewish and Romani Families in the Holocaust and its Aftermath (2020); Reconstructing the Old Country: American Jewry in the Post-Holocaust Decades (2017); Polin 30: Jewish Education in Eastern Europe (2018) and Jewish Literature and History: An Interdisciplinary Conversation (2008). \n \nMarvin Klemow worked at Israel Aircraft Industries International\, now called IAI North America\, from 1969 until 2017. He was hired by IAI’s founding Chairman Al Schwimmer\, and was very proud to be one of the second group of “Al’s boys.” Klemow was responsible for IAI’s activity within the United States government and worked at the highest governmental levels in both the US and Israel. He was interviewed by Mike Wallace on 60 Minutes on IAI exports and has testified before Congress. He spoke at a remembrance service for Schwimmer\, where he said\, “There are dreamers and visionaries. Visionaries make their dreams come true. Al Schwimmer was truly a visionary.” \nxxxxx \nThis program is co-sponsored by the Holocaust\, Genocide & Human Rights Education Initiative at Penn State University. \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/virtual-film-and-discussion-a-wing-and-a-prayer/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Virtual film and discussion: I Shall Not be Silent
DESCRIPTION:An unsung hero who should be widely known! In Berlin in the 1930’s\, the civil rights of Jews were systematically stripped away. A young rabbi refused to be silent. His name was Joachim Prinz and he set out to restore the self-esteem of the German Jews. Expelled from Germany in 1937\, Prinz arrived in the United States\, where he witnessed racism against African Americans and realized that the American ideal was not a reality. Prinz became a leader of the civil rights movement and spoke at the 1963 March on Washington\, declaring\, “Bigotry and hatred are not the most urgent problem. The most urgent\, the most disgraceful\, the most shameful and the most tragic problem is silence.”  \nxxxxx \nWATCH THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\nxxxxx \n⇒ Prior to the November 1 program\, watch the film on your home device. Cost:  $6.99 for a 72-hour rental.  To rent the film please click here. \n⇒ November 1 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the discussion with our distinguished panelists.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\n  \n \nFilmmaker Rachel Eskin Fisher is a Philadelphia native with a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of California\, Santa Barbara. She was the founding Director of the Genealogy Institute at the Center for Jewish History in New York. With Rachel Pasternak\, she co-produced and co-directed the short documentary Remembering Oswiecim and the documentary Joachim Prinz: I Shall Not Be Silent. She is currently working on a screenplay about the first female Cabinet Secretary in the U.S.\, Frances Perkins. She lives in Maplewood\, NJ with her family. \n \nMichael A. Meyer (right) is the editor of Joachim Prinz\, Rebellious Rabbi: An Autobiography–the German and Early American Years. Born in Berlin\, Dr. Meyer grew up in Los Angeles and graduated from UCLA. His doctorate is from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati\, where he served as Professor of Jewish History until his recent retirement. His books include The Origins of the Modern Jew\, Response to Modernity: A History of the Reform Movement in Judaism\, and Rabbi Leo Baeck: Living a Religious Imperative in Troubled Times. \n \nJonathan J. Prinz (left) was ordained at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. He served for nearly a decade alongside his father Joachim Prinz as a rabbi of their 1\,000-family synagogue in Newark\, NJ. While there\, he was a founder of a community action anti-poverty agency. He left the rabbinate for what he expected to be a career in politics\, but changed course in the wake of Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination. He then joined a small Wall Street firm working for one of its founders\, Sanford I. Weill\, who would go on to form Citigroup. Today he lives in North Carolina where he serves as a mentor to young entrepreneurs. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/virtual-film-and-discussion-i-shall-not-be-silent/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Virtual film and discussion: Rosenwald
DESCRIPTION:Aviva Kempner’s Rosenwald tells the inspiring true story of Julius Rosenwald\, the President of Sears\, who was a Jewish hero of African-American history. Rosenwald\, imbued with the value of tikkun olam\, saw parallels between the brutal persecutions of Jews in Eastern Europe and African-Americans in the Jim Crow South\, and he could not stand idly by. His grandest project was to build more than 5\,300 rural schools to educate black children in partnership with Booker T. Washington. Several generations of leaders\, thinkers and scholars were Rosenwald school graduates\, including such luminaries as the late Maya Angelou\, the late Rep. John Lewis\, and Eugene Robinson — all of whom appear in the film. \nxxxxx \nWATCH THE TRAILER\nxxxxx \n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\nxxxxx \n⇒ October 23-26\, any time\, watch the film on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ October 25 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the discussion with our distinguished panelists.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nxxxxx \n \nAward-winning filmmaker Aviva Kempner (left) has been making independent films since 1979. A specialist in bringing to light the stories of little known Jewish heroes\, she is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences\, Kempner is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship\, the DC Mayor’s Art Award\, WIFV Women of Vision Award and a Media Arts Award from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture. Her films include Partisans of Vilna (1986)\, the Peabody Award-winning The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (2000)\, Yoo-Hoo\, Mrs. Goldberg (2009)\, and The Spy Behind Home Plate (2019). \n \nElizabeth R. Varet (right)\, granddaughter of Julius Rosenwald\, has for many years been Principal of the William Rosenwald family office. She also serves as a Director of AMETEK\, Inc.\, an S&P 500 New York Stock Exchange listed global manufacturer of electronic instruments and electromechanical devices. She was a Founding Partner of Circle Financial Group\, a group of women with extensive experience in the financial\, investment and wealth management industries. She is a member of the JDC Executive Committee\, and a Life Trustee of the Central Park Conservancy. Her prior philanthropic Board Memberships include the UJA-Federation of New York.   \nNew York Times best-selling writer Carole Boston Weatherford (left) is the author of Dear Mr. Rosenwald: The School that Hope Built for young readers. Her 50-plus books include the Caldecott Honor winners Freedom in Congo Square\, Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement\, and Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom. She won a Coretta Scott King Author Honor for Becoming Billie Holiday\, and the NAACP Image Award for Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America.  \nxxxxx \nGive the gift of inspiration! Get your signed and inscribed copy of Dear Mr. Rosenwald: The School that Hope Built for an added donation of $18 (with free shipping to any US address). This large format 32-page book is the perfect holiday gift for a young person in your life! Just add it to your ticket order and let us know how the author’s inscription should read and where to send it. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed. 
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/virtual-film-and-discussion-rosenwald/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Virtual program:  The Bystander's Choice
DESCRIPTION:If you are a bystander and witness a crime\, should intervention to prevent that crime be a legal obligation? Or is moral responsibility enough? Law professor Amos Guiora\, the son of Holocaust survivors\, argues provocatively and controversially that we must make the obligation to intervene the law\, and thus non-intervention a crime. He will be in dialogue with Holocaust historians Dr. Victoria Barnett\, formerly of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum\, and Dr. Mordecai Paldiel\, formerly of Yad Vashem. Following our recent program on what makes a hero\, we will examine the dilemma of the bystander and take a close look at the famous assertion by Edmund Burke: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” \n \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANELISTS\nxxxxx \nDr. Victoria J. Barnett was Director of the Programs on Ethics\, Religion\, and the Holocaust at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum from 2004-2019. She also served as one of the general editors of the 17-volume Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works\, the complete English edition of Bonhoeffer’s writings published by Fortress Press. She has lectured and taught about the history of the Protestant churches in Nazi Germany and during the Holocaust. Her books include Bystanders: Conscience and Complicity during the Holocaust (2000) and For the Soul of the People: Protestant Protest against Hitler (1992). Her most recent book is “After Ten Years”: Dietrich Bonhoeffer for Our Times. \nAmos N. Guiora is Professor of Law at the S.J. Quinney College of Law\, the University of Utah and a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the Israel Defense Forces. He is actively involved in bystander legislation efforts in Utah and other states around the country. Guiora holds an A.B. in history from Kenyon College\, a J.D. from Case Western Reserve University School of Law\, and a Ph.D from Leiden University. He has published extensively both in the United States and Europe on issues related to national security\, limits of interrogation\, religion and terrorism\, the limits of power\, multiculturalism and human rights. He is the author of numerous books including The Crime of Complicity: The Bystander in the Holocaust (2017) and Armies of Enablers: Survivor Stories of Complicity and Betrayal in Sexual Assaults (2020). \nDr. Mordecai Paldiel headed the Righteous Among the Nations Department at Yad Vashem from 1982-2007.  His essay “Calling Myself Into Question: How the Bystander Becomes a Rescuer” was published in the Holocaust education journal Prism. His books include The Path of the Righteous\, Sheltering the Jews\, Saving the Jews\, Diplomat Heroes of the Holocaust\, Saving One’s Own: Jewish Rescuers During the Holocaust and The Righteous Among the Nations. He teaches at Stern College 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 as well as a street named for Raoul Wallenberg\, both in Jerusalem. He is a member of the B’nai Brith committee in Israel honoring Jewish rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program has ended.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/virtual-program-the-bystanders-choice/
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200913
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200914
DTSTAMP:20260418T123719
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SUMMARY:Virtual film and discussion: What makes a hero?
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES\, 2 PM NEW YORK\n7 PM LISBON\, 9 PM JERUSALEM\nxxxxx \nAre some people born heroic and others not? Can ordinary people become heroes\, and if so\, under what circumstances? Join us to explore this fascinating topic with Holocaust rescue experts Dr. Eva Fogelman and Dr. Mordecai Paldiel and award-winning Israeli filmmaker Yoav Shamir.  Watch Shamir’s lighthearted yet earnest treatment of this important topic in his film\, executive produced by Michael Moore\, called 10% – What Makes a Hero?  Then tune in for what is sure to be a wide-ranging and fascinating discussion. \nxxxxx \nWATCH THE TRAILER\nxxxxx \nAttention: Contains some nudity and brief disturbing imagery.  Be forewarned! \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nxxxxx \n \nDr. Eva Fogelman is an authority on Holocaust rescue and the altruistic personality. She is a psychologist in private practice in New York City and the author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated book\, Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust. In 1986 she co-founded the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous\, then called the Jewish Foundation for Christian Rescuers. She is co-editor of Children During the Nazi Reign: Psychological Perspective on the Interview Process. Dr. Fogelman wrote and co-produced the award-winning documentary\, Breaking the Silence: The Generation After the Holocaust. She was honored at the Sousa Mendes Foundation’s 2017 gala for her pioneering contributions to Holocaust studies and her compassionate work with aging survivors today. \n \nDr. Mordecai Paldiel (left) 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\, Saving One’s Own: Jewish Rescuers During the Holocaust and The Righteous Among the Nations. He teaches at Stern College 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 as well as a street named for Raoul Wallenberg\, both in Jerusalem. He is a member of the B’nai Brith committee in Israel honoring Jewish rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. \n \nYoav Shamir (right) is an award-winning documentary director\, producer and cinematographer. His films have been screened at international film festivals\, and broadcast on Arte/ZDF\, VPRO\, BBC\, Channel 4\, Sundance Channel\, ITVS\, SBS Australia\, CBC Canada\, SVT\, DR1\, Israeli Channel 2\, Israeli Channel 1\, Israeli Channel 8\, France 5\, and Canal+. His documentary films include Marta & Luis (2001)\, Checkpoint (2003)\, 5 Days (2005)\, Flipping Out (2007) and Defamation (2009). His latest film The Prophet and the Space Aliens will make its US premiere in the upcoming Chicago International Film Festival. Find him at www.yoavshamirfilms.com. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/virtual-film-and-discussion-what-makes-a-hero/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200906T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200906T171500
DTSTAMP:20260418T123719
CREATED:20200826T034012Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200904T060004Z
UID:18740-1599408000-1599412500@sousamendesfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Virtual program:  Destination Shanghai
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Feng Shan Ho was a Chinese diplomat stationed in Vienna during the time of Kristallnacht. Thanks to him\, thousands of Jewish refugees were able to escape to Shanghai\, where they found a safe haven. Feng Shan Ho was recognized in 2000 as Righteous Among the Nations.  Together we will watch a 20-minute preview of the new PBS film Harbor from the Holocaust (2020\, dir. Violet Du Feng). Then meet the diplomat’s daughter Manli Ho\, a journalist\, who will be in dialogue with Holocaust historian Dr. Mordecai Paldiel and Shanghai survivor Dr. Lotte Lustig Marcus. Representing programming partner WNET will be Ed Hersh\, who will introduce the film. \n \nxxxxx \nxxxxx \nSEE THE TRAILER \n \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS \n \nEd Hersh has served as a Senior Programming Consultant to WNET for almost a decade\, where he helps develop and oversee major reporting and editorial projects on critical subjects such as America’s crumbling infrastructure\, poverty and inequality\, and climate change. He is currently the project director of a new initiative reporting on the frightening rise in hate and anti-Semitism worldwide. Hersh is a veteran industry consultant\, journalist\, producer\, and media executive\, having previously served in major roles at ABC News\, A&E Network\, and Discovery Communications. He is a frequent speaker and panelist at industry events. \n \nManli Ho\, the daughter of the Chinese diplomat rescuer Dr. Feng Shan Ho\, has been painstakingly uncovering and documenting her late father’s humanitarian work for the past two decades and is working on a book. She created the historic photographic exhibit On the Wings of the Phoenix: Feng Shan Ho and the Rescue of Austrian Jews\, which has been shown in Washington\, D.C.\, San Francisco\, New York and Israel. Born in Cairo\, Egypt\, Manli grew up in Mexico\, Bolivia and Colombia. A Smith College graduate\, she was a reporter for the Boston Globe\, and was on the reporting team that earned the paper a Pulitzer Prize in 1975 for coverage of the Boston school desegregation crisis. In 1981\, she helped found China Daily\, China’s national English language newspaper in Beijing\, and continued to serve as a consultant to the paper on coverage of the Olympics and the launching of its US edition. She was also a reference specialist for the Boston-based executive search firm of Isaacson Miller. \nDr. Lotte Lustig Marcus was born in Vienna\, Austria\, in 1927 to a large\, harmonious Jewish family until the Anschluss of March 1938 shattered their lives. Lotte’s father obtained Dr. Feng Shan Ho‘s visas from the Chinese Consulate in Vienna\, and the family fled to Shanghai. After her father died of cancer\, Lotte began to work at the age of 14 — teaching\, buying/selling Japanese imports\, and running a business. She suffered from amoebic dysentery and narrowly escaped death from the bombings toward the end of the war. In 1947\, after eight difficult years in Shanghai\, Lotte and her mother came to the United States. She earned a Ph.D. in Psychology at the age of 58\, and established herself in private practice. She was married to the late writer Alan Richard Marcus. Together they ran an innovative language program for Hispanic agricultural workers called “English on Wheels” in Salinas\, California which is now housed at Stanford University. Alan Marcus’s novels and Lotte’s poetry are housed at Steve Kettman’s Santa Cruz Writing Center.   \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\, Saving One’s Own: Jewish Rescuers During the Holocaust and The Righteous Among the Nations. He teaches at Stern College 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 and a street named for Raoul Wallenberg in Jerusalem. He was instrumental in having Feng Shan Ho recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations. \nxxxxx \n \nThis program is presented in partnership with The WNET Group. \nxxxxx \nPLEASE NOTE:  Registration for this program is now closed. \nTO ALL WHO REGISTERED:  Instructions will be emailed to you on Friday\, September 4 and again on Sunday\, September 6.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/destination-shanghai/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200830T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200830T170000
DTSTAMP:20260418T123719
CREATED:20200815T232159Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual program: Curious George - Saved by Sousa Mendes!
DESCRIPTION:Author-illustrators Hans and Margret Rey fled Nazi-occupied France on handmade bicycles with the manuscript to the first Curious George book among their meager possessions. Thanks to a fortuitous encounter with Aristides de Sousa Mendes\, they were all saved. Meet Louise Borden\, author of The Journey That Saved Curious George\, and Sheila Abranches-Pierce\, granddaughter of Sousa Mendes. The program moderator will be Robert Jacobvitz.  This will be a fun program\, appropriate for all ages. \n \nxxxxx \nRAVE REVIEWS for The Journey that Saved Curious George: \n“A fine introduction to the period for young children\, a model of documentation\, and an exceptionally inviting and well-designed book.” —Horn Book \n“A stirring\, uplifting\, and elegantly packaged saga.” —Publishers Weekly \nAn American Library Association (ALA) Notable Book \nxxxxx \nWant to know more about about Sousa Mendes? See the film! \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS \n \nSheila Abranches-Pierce (left) is the granddaughter of the Holocaust rescuer Aristides de Sousa Mendes and his wife Angelina.  She is a former Board member of the Sousa Mendes Foundation and has been active in telling her grandfather’s story since the 1990s. Born and raised in the East Bay\, she spent 27 years working in the banking industry in New York before moving home to California to marry her high school sweetheart. Over the years\, she has enjoyed the privilege of representing the Sousa Mendes family at various events in the tri-state area\, Portugal\, France and California. Sheila now lives in San Ramon\, CA with her husband\, Darrell\, two step children\, Jordyn and Jalen\, and their family cat\, Raider. \n \nLouise Borden (right) is the highly regarded author of many books for young readers\, including The Journey That Saved Curious George and His Name Was Raoul Wallenberg\, both published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt\, as well as The Little Ships: The Heroic Rescue at Dunkirk in WW II and The Greatest Skating Race\, a fictional story about a Dutch boy helping others during the occupation of his country in WWII. Borden believes in the importance of teaching history to young readers in a direct and engaging way. She consulted on a major exhibition on the Reys’ escape and has spoken at schools\, libraries\, and museums across the country.xxxxx \nRobert Jacobvitz is a graduate of Yeshiva University’s Wurzweiler School of Social Work and holds an MSW in Community Social Work. For ten years he directed the Jewish Community Relations Council of the Greater East Bay\, and it was in this capacity in the 1980’s that he began championing the cause of Aristides de Sousa Mendes. In 2005 he received the Aristides de Sousa Mendes Humanitarian Medal from the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation. He wrote a seminal article on Aristides de Sousa Mendes that can be read at this link. \nxxxxx \nxxxxx \nPLEASE NOTE: The program is free\, but we are taking this opportunity to encourage donations to our project of interviewing survivors.  Donate $36 or more\, and receive an autographed copy of the lavishly illustrated and delightful book The Journey that Saved Curious George\, inscribed to the recipient of your choice.  A rare opportunity! \nxxxxx \nPLEASE NOTE: Registration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/virtual-program-curious-george/
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200823T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200823T171500
DTSTAMP:20260418T123719
CREATED:20200812T163921Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200821T170944Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual program: Hidden Children and their Rescuers
DESCRIPTION:This program will explore the history and psychology of hidden children and their rescuers during the Holocaust. Meet three formerly hidden children: renowned Jewish advocate Abraham H. Foxman (hidden in Poland)\, psychologist Dr. Noémi Perelman Mattis (hidden in Belgium) and Holocaust educator Ruth Kapp Hartz.(hidden in France).\n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE: \n⇒ August 21-23\, any time\, watch the film Hidden (Project Witness\, dir. Gi Orman\, 2017\, 75 minutes) on your home device.  This film focuses on hidden children from Orthodox Jewish homes\, particularly in Eastern Europe\, and includes the story of Abraham H. Foxman. A link has been provided to all who registered. \n⇒ August 23 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the discussion with our distinguished panelists.  A link has been provided to all who registered. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANELISTS \n \nAfter serving 28 years as National Director and a total of fifty years with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL)\, Abraham H. Foxman retired in 2015 and became National Director Emeritus. He is world-renowned as a leader in the fight against anti-semitism\, bigotry and discrimination and speaks out on issues of global anti-semitism\, the war on terrorism\, church/state issues\, religious intolerance and issues relating to the Holocaust. During his long and distinguished career\, Foxman has had consultations with world leaders on every continent including the three most recent popes. Abraham Foxman was a hidden child in Poland during the Holocaust\, and his story is featured in the film Hidden produced by Project Witness. \nRuth Kapp Hartz (right) is a retired teacher who was a hidden child in France during the Holocaust. She is the author of A Legacy of Goodness\, the story of her French rescuers during World War II\, and the subject of the book Your Name is Renée by Stacy Cretzmeyer.  A graduate of the University of Paris\, Sorbonne\, she taught French for over thirty years in Pennsylvania. She is an active Board member of the Holocaust Awareness Museum and Education Center in Philadelphia. Hartz was the recipient of the Legion of Honor from the Chapel of Four Chaplains of Philadelphia in recognition of her outstanding service to Bryn Mawr College as well as other awards for her contributions to Holocaust education. Hear a bit of her story at this link. \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\, graduating first in her class\, 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.  Hear a bit of her story at this link. \nxxxxx \nPLEASE NOTE: This program is full\, and registration is closed. \nxxxxx \nThis program is co-sponsored by Descendants of Holocaust Survivors (2G Greater New York) and the Hidden Child Foundation. \n                             
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/virtual-program-hidden-children-and-their-rescuers/
CATEGORIES:Discussion
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200816
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200817
DTSTAMP:20260418T123719
CREATED:20200731T181719Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Film and Discussion: Shores of Light
DESCRIPTION:. \n11 AM LOS ANGELES\, 2 PM NEW YORK\n8 PM MILAN\, 9 PM JERUSALEM\nxxxxx \nFrom Israeli director Yael Katzir comes a glorious and uplifting story of rebirth and renewal after the Holocaust. Filmed on location in Southern Italy\, Shores of Light tells the unknown true story of thousands of survivors who ended up in the region of Salento en route to what was then Palestine. Welcomed by the local population\, which was economically poor but rich in human compassion\, many of the refugees stayed\, married and had children before eventually moving on to their intended destination. It was a time of healing with the promise of a future full of hope. \n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE:\nxxxxx \n⇒ August 14-16\, any time\, WATCH THE FILM (56 minutes) on your home device. A link and password to view the film will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ August 16 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, DISCUSS THE FILM\, its context and its relevance to today. Filmmaker Yael Katzir will be in dialogue with Natalia Indrimi of the Centro Primo Levi\, Holocaust historian Dr. Mordecai Paldiel and Shuni Lifshitz whose story is featured in the film. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANELISTS\nxxxxx \n \nAward-winning Israeli filmmaker Yael Katzir (right) has produced and aired over 120 films on Israeli television. She holds degrees in history and literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and UCLA and in broadcasting and film from Boston University\, In addition to Shores of Hope\, her films include My Grandmother had a Gun (2020)\, The Albanian Code (2019)\, Violins in Wartime (2012)\, Praying in Her Own Voice (2009)\, Yiddish Theater — A Love Story (2007)\, Shivah for my Mother (2004) and Company Jasmine (2000). She is the author of Commando-Mom\, Diary of a Mother of an Infantry Soldier (1994).  She is a Professor of film and history at the Art School of Beit Berl Academic College and is the Principal of Katzir Productions. \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\, Saving One’s Own: Jewish Rescuers During the Holocaust and The Righteous Among the Nations. He currently teaches at Stern College 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 as well as a street named for Raoul Wallenberg\, both in Jerusalem. He is also a member of the B’nai Brith committee in Israel honoring Jewish rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. \nShuni Lifshitz (right) is the inspiration behind the film Shores of Light. Born on December 4\, 1945\, in a DP camp in Santa Maria di Leuca\, Italy\, she arrived in Israel on February 19\, 1946. She holds degrees in Sociology\, English\, and Education Administration and worked for over 30 years as Academic Secretary at Beit Berl College of Education. After retirement she began working as a translator from English into Hebrew\, which she does to this day.  In 2009\, after having visited her birth place in Italy\, she initiated and managed the production of Shores of Light. Since then\, she served as Production Manager for The Albanian Code\, a new film by Yael Katzir. \n \nDr. Natalia Indrimi (left) is an expert on Italy during the Holocaust. She is the director of the Centro Primo Levi in New York and previously was director of programs at the Center for Jewish History. She has coordinated research projects and conferences on many aspects of Fascism and the persecution of the Jews in Italy presented by institutions including New York University\, Columbia University\, the New School\, CUNY\, the United Nations\, the Library of Congress\, the Italian Cultural Institute\, and the New York Public Library.\n \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/virtual-film-and-discussion-shores-of-light/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200809T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200809T170000
DTSTAMP:20260418T123719
CREATED:20200718T220543Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200807T175256Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Something Beautiful Happened
DESCRIPTION:Emmy Award-winning writer\, producer\, and author Yvette Manessis Corporon scours the globe to track down the Jewish family that her Greek Orthodox grandmother saved from the Holocaust in 1944. But suddenly\, after a glorious reunion with the saved family\, her own family falls victim to antisemitism in the U.S. In Something Beautiful Happened: A Story of Survival and Courage in the Face of Evil\, the past and present come together in a nuanced\, heartfelt story about the power of faith\, the importance of kindness\, and the courage to stand up for what is right. \n \nxxxxxTo order the book Something Beautiful Happened\, click here. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANELISTS \n \nAuthor Yvette Manessis Corporon (right) is a Senior Producer with the syndicated entertainment television news show\, EXTRA. She has received three Emmy Awards\, several Emmy nominations\, a Silurian Award for Excellence in Journalism and the New York City Comptroller and City Council’s Award for Greek Heritage and Culture. Her earlier book\, When The Cypress Whispers (Harper\, 2014) was translated into fourteen languages and is an international bestseller. Her latest book Something Beautiful Happened has been translated into Hebrew and German and will soon become a documentary film titled Hope. \n \nInterviewer Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff (left) fled Nazi-occupied Europe from Kosice\, Slovakia\, as a small child in 1941\, via Lisbon\, Portugal. Miriam is an appointee to the Florida Education Commissioner’s Holocaust Task Force. She is the Founding Director of the University of Miami Holocaust Institute and is a frequent speaker on Holocaust education at conferences and workshops nationwide. In February 2019 she was given a Special Tribute by the Florida House of Representatives for her work on behalf of the Jewish Community of Florida. In October 2019\, she was honored in Pittsburgh\, PA with The Lifetime Achievement Award given by Classrooms Without Borders. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed. \nxxxxx
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/virtual-event-something-beautiful-happened/
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200802T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200802T150000
DTSTAMP:20260418T123719
CREATED:20200624T153949Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200802T035321Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Film and Discussion: Defying the Nazis - The Sharps' War
DESCRIPTION:Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War is an account of a daring rescue mission that occurred on the precipice of World War II. It tells the dramatic true story of Waitstill and Martha Sharp\, an American minister and his wife from Wellesley\, Massachusetts\, who left their children behind in the care of their parish and boldly committed to a life-threatening mission in Europe. Over two dangerous years they helped to save scores of imperiled Jews and refugees fleeing Nazi occupation across Europe. In 2006\, Watstill and Martha Sharp were recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations. \n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE: \n⇒ July 31-August 2\, any time\, RENT THE FILM.  Details to come. \n⇒ July 31-August 2\, any time\, WATCH THE FILM (85 minutes) on your home device. \n⇒ August 2 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, DISCUSS THE FILM\, its context and its relevance to today. Meet Artemis Joukowsky — the award-winning filmmaker of this documentary film — and Amelie Diamant Holmstrom\, originally from Vienna\, who was rescued by Martha Sharp. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANELISTS \nArtemis A.W. Joukowsky III\, co-director with Ken Burns of Defying the Nazis\, is the grandson of Waitstill and Martha Sharp. He has devoted much of his life’s work to improving the experience of those living with multiple disabilities and promoting community services since he was diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy when he was 14 years old. He is a co-founder of No Limits Media\, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to demonstrate the value and abilities of people with disabilities through a variety of media. His latest film is The Genetics of Hope. \nAmelie Diamant Holmstrom was born in Vienna in 1927. In late 1938\, she fled to Paris with her parents and two sisters. Martha Sharp rescued Amelie and her sisters by obtaining U.S. immigration visas for them and traveling with them from Lisbon to New York. Amelie is a retired language teacher and is the author of French\, A Creative Approach and a series of personal growth books entitled The Courtship of Life. She is energized by the realization that one has the strength\, imagination\, desire and capacity to create one’s own existence to a rather large degree\, and that to make a difference is a lifelong challenge for everyone.\n \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/virtual-film-and-discussion-defying-the-nazis-the-sharps-war/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200726T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200726T170000
DTSTAMP:20260418T123719
CREATED:20200624T163836Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200724T060848Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Film and Discussion: Cuba's Forgotten Jewels
DESCRIPTION:Cuba’s Forgotten Jewels was born of the tales that Marion Kreith told her daughter\, co-director Judy Kreith\, over the years. Marion escaped war-torn Europe as a young girl with her family\, evading Nazi capture and crossing the Atlantic to a tropical paradise. In this film\, her story mingles with the personal accounts of other refugees who recall their escape to Havana and the challenges they face in an exotic and unfamiliar land. With a stunning musical score of Jewish melodies and the pulsating music of Havana\, the film merges the realities of two vastly different yet intermingled cultures\, bringing this colorful and uplifting piece of history to light. \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE:\n⇒ July 24-26\, any time\, RENT THE FILM ($5).  To access the film\, click here. \n⇒ July 24-26\, any time\, WATCH THE FILM on your home device. \n⇒ July 26 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, DISCUSS THE FILM\, its context and its relevance to today. Meet Judy Kreith and Robin Truesdale — the award-winning filmmakers of this documentary film — and two eyewitnesses to this history\, Marion Kreith and Felicia Rosshandler. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANELISTS\n \nJudy Kreith (right) is co-director of Cuba’s Forgotten Jewels: A Haven in Havana. She is a professional dance educator and choreographer with an MA from Stanford University. She has extensively studied Cuban dance and while in Cuba\, began research into the Jewish refugees’ diamond polishing industry that flourished in Havana during the Second World War\, working on-site with Cuban historians. Judy has spoken on this topic to many groups\, including a conference at the University of Antwerp\, Belgium.  \nMarion Finkels Kreith (left) was born in Altona\, Germany August 6\, 1927. Her family fled Germany in 1938 to escape the Nazis. After three harrowing years crossing Europe\, living some time in Belgium\, they received visas to travel to Cuba and boarded a ship in Portugal in 1941. In Havana\, they found safety from the Holocaust\, and Marion worked as a teenager in the flourishing diamond business there to support her family. In 1946\, the family was able to immigrate to the United States.  She has lived in Colorado since the 1950s. \n \nFelicia Rosshandler (right) was born in Berlin and is the product of three cultures\, the German\, the French and the Spanish.  She left Germany as a toddler and with her family found refuge in Antwerp.  Then Germany invaded Belgium when she was nine\, and with the help of a visa from the Salvadorian consul\, she escaped with her family to France\, and then to Spain. They boarded the ocean liner Magallanes for Havana in 1941. Felicia grew to love Cuba\, the land of her adolescence.  Her novel Passing through Havana tells this story and is a tribute to all those who traveled a similar journey.  \n \nRobin Truesdale (left) is co-director of Cuba’s Forgotten Jewels: A Haven in Havana. She is the founder of Two Hands Films and brings her storytelling abilities and craft to this project as the cinematographer\, editor\, and technical director. Robin began her career as a news editor for a Denver\, Colorado television station before turning to documentary film. Her work as a filmmaker deals primarily with social justice\, cultural\, and humanitarian issues. Robin received her BS and MS Degrees in Journalism from the University of Colorado. \nxxxxx \nPLEASE NOTE:  Registration has closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/virtual-film-and-discussion-cubas-forgotten-jewels/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200719
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200720
DTSTAMP:20260418T123719
CREATED:20200626T151833Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200719T210724Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Diplomat Heroes of the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:EVENT START TIME:\n11 AM Los Angeles\, 2 PM New York\, 7 PM Lisbon\, 8 PM Geneva\n\nxxxxx \nThis program is a birthday tribute to Aristides de Sousa Mendes\, born on this date in 1885. It also celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Sousa Mendes Foundation and the 80th anniversary of Sousa Mendes’s action. Join renowned Holocaust scholars Michael Berenbaum and Mordecai Paldiel for inspiring stories of four diplomat rescuers: Hiram Bingham of the United States\, Georg Duckwitz of Germany\, Carl Lutz of Switzerland\, and Sousa Mendes of Portugal. Participants are invited to add their own tributes\, that will be shared! \n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE:\n \n⇒ July 17-19\, any time\, watch the History Channel’s documentary film Diplomats for the Damned (44 minutes) on your home device. To watch the film\, click here. \n⇒ July 19 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, join Dr. Berenbaum and Dr. Paldiel for an uplifting discussion about history\, humanity and moral courage. Special guests: Abigail Bingham Endicott\, daughter of Hiram Bingham\, will share reminiscences and an original song; Dr. Leo Goldberger\, whose life was saved by Duckwitz\, will pay tribute to his rescuer; His Excellency Mr. Jacques Pitteloud\, Ambassador of Switzerland to the United States\, will pay tribute to his countryman Carl Lutz; and His Excellency Mr. Domingos Fezas Vital\, Ambassador of Portugal to the United States\, will pay tribute to his countryman Aristides de Sousa Mendes.  If you wish to add your own tribute to any of these heroes\, please contact us. \nwxxxxx \nMEET THE PANELISTS\nxxxxx \nDr. Michael Berenbaum\, Director of the Sigi Ziering Institute and co-founder of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum\, is one of the foremost Holocaust authorities in the world today. His books include A Promise to Remember: The Holocaust in the Words and Voices of Its Survivors; The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp; A Mosaic of Victims: Non-Jews Persecuted and Murdered by the Nazis and Witness to the Holocaust: An Illustrated Documentary History of the Holocaust in the Words of Its Victims\, Perpetrators\, and Bystanders. In film\, his work as co-producer of One Survivor Remembers: The Gerda Weissman Klein Story was recognized with an Academy Award\, an Emmy Award and the Cable Ace Award. He was the historical consultant on The Shoah Foundation’s documentary The Last Days\, which won an Academy Award for best feature-length documentary. He serves on the Advisory Council of the Sousa Mendes Foundation.\n \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\, Saving One’s Own: Jewish Rescuers During the Holocaust and The Righteous Among the Nations. He currently teaches at Stern College 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 as well as a street named for Raoul Wallenberg\, both in Jerusalem. \nxxxxx \nTickets are by donation of any amount. We suggest a minimum donation of $18 per household\, but please give more if you can and less if you need to. You will be asked to enter the amount you wish to donate. All contributions are 100% tax-deductible under US law. \nxxxxx \nPLEASE NOTE:  Registration is closed. \n\nxxxx \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Cercle Carl Lutz and the University of Miami Holocaust Teacher Institute.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/diplomat-heroes-of-the-holocaust/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200712T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200712T170000
DTSTAMP:20260418T123719
CREATED:20200602T221811Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200710T063507Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Film and Discussion: The Starfish
DESCRIPTION:The Starfish is the touching true story of a German-Jewish boy whose life was forever altered at the age of 10\, when his parents sent him and his two older sisters to Sweden to escape Nazi persecution\, with the aid of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS). Meet Mark Hetfield\, CEO of HIAS\, who will be in dialogue with the filmmaker Tyler Gildin. \n \nAfter living in Swedish families for two years\, Herbert Gildin and his sisters journeyed across Russia and the Pacific to be reunited with their parents as refugees in America. Focused on building his lighting business rather than dwelling on the past\, decades went by before Herbert told his wife and children about his childhood\, resulting in one last journey back to Sweden to attempt to reunite with the remaining family members who had taken him in 60 years earlier.  This is a tender story of one family out of thousands who were helped by the life-saving work of HIAS. \nxxxxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE:\nxxxxx \n⇒ July 10-12\, any time\, RENT THE FILM. Cost: $1.99 with Amazon Prime. To access the film on Amazon\, click here.  To access the film on alternative platforms\, click here. \n⇒ July 10-12\, any time\, WATCH THE FILM (40 minutes) on your home device. \n⇒ Sunday\, July 12 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, DISCUSS THE FILM\, its context and its relevance to today. Meet Mark Hetfield — the President and CEO of HIAS — and Tyler Gildin\, the filmmaker and grandson of the film’s central character. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANELISTS\nxxxxx \nFilmmaker Tyler Gildin (right) is a director and producer whose previous works have earned him four New York Emmy Awards. The Starfish won the Audience Award for Documentary Short at the Syracuse International Film Festival and is currently available on AppleTV\, Prime Video\, Vimeo on Demand and several other streaming services.  \nMark Hetfield (below) is the President and CEO of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS).  He first joined HIAS in 1989 as a caseworker in Rome\, Italy. He has worked for the US Immigration and Naturalization Service\, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom\, a large law firm as an immigration attorney\, and has held multiple roles at HIAS over the years. Mark has led the transformation of HIAS from helping refugees because they were Jewish to helping refugees because we are Jewish. Mark is proud of HIAS’ role in assisting and resettling refugees of all faiths and ethnicities and as a major implementing partner of the United Nations Refugee Agency and the U.S. Department of State. \nxxxxx \nPlease note: Registration for this event is closed. To see our upcoming event schedule click here.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/virtual-film-and-discussion-the-starfish/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200705
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200706
DTSTAMP:20260418T123719
CREATED:20200609T193652Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200705T062426Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Film and Discussion: Orchestra of Exiles
DESCRIPTION:EVENT START TIME:\n11 a.m. Los Angeles\, 2 p.m. New York\, 7 p.m. London\, 9 p.m. Tel Aviv\nxxxxx \nIn the early 1930s\, Hitler began firing Jewish musicians across Europe. Overcoming extraordinary obstacles\, virtuoso violinist Bronislaw Huberman moved these great musicians to Palestine and formed a symphony that would become the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Orchestra of Exiles tells the gripping true story of how Huberman\, with courage\, resourcefulness and an entourage of allies\, saved nearly 1000 Jews and guaranteed the survival of Europe’s musical heritage. \n \n“I defy you to leave with a dry eye.” – The Forward \n“Aspires to a level of primary research that other historical documentaries could take a page from.”   – The New York Times \n“A great\, too-little-known piece of history… marvelous footage!” – The Christian Science Monitor \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE: \n⇒ July 3-5\, any time\, RENT THE FILM. Cost: free with Amazon Prime in the United States. To access the film on Amazon\, click here. To access the film on Vimeo in North America\, the UK and Israel ($2.99 rental)\, click here. \n⇒ July 3-5\, any time\, WATCH THE FILM (85 minutes) on your home device. \n⇒ Sunday\, July 5 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, DISCUSS THE FILM\, its context and its relevance to today. Meet Josh Aronson — the award-winning filmmaker of this documentary film — and Mordecai Paldiel\, the leading world expert on Holocaust rescue. They will have a discussion and take your questions. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANELISTS \n \nOscar-nominated filmmaker Josh Aronson began his career as a still photographer for Time Life before turning to film. He directed MTV videos\, episodic television and over 500 commercials before turning to documentaries in 1999.  He is also a concert pianist and regularly plays chamber music in New York and at the Telluride Musicfest\, a chamber music festival he co-founded in 2002. His latest film\, To Be of Service (2019)\, explores complex stories of veterans with PTSD and the impeccably trained service dogs they are paired with to help them find a path to healing. \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\, Saving One’s Own: Jewish Rescuers During the Holocaust and The Righteous Among the Nations. He currently teaches at Stern College and Touro College and serves on the Board of the Sousa Mendes Foundation. He is planning to nominate Bronislaw Huberman for the Jewish Rescuers Citation of the B’nai B’rith\, which recognizes Jewish rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. \nxxxxx \nPLEASE NOTE:  Registration for this event is now closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/virtual-film-and-discussion-orchestra-of-exiles/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200628T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200628T163000
DTSTAMP:20260418T123719
CREATED:20200516T194507Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200628T213110Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual event: The Power of Music
DESCRIPTION:Music has the unique power to transport an individual outside of the here and now.  This event is a demonstration of that power.  We will begin by watching the Oscar-winning short documentary film The Lady in Number 6 — Music Saved My Life (38 minutes) about the extraordinary life of concert pianist and Holocaust survivor Alice Herz Sommer.  Then we will be treated to a musical response to this tender and touching film by singers Cantor Arianne Brown and Stephan Kirchgraber and composer/pianist Neely Bruce.  Not to be missed! \n \n \nTickets are by donation of any amount. The event is a fundraiser\, with a portion of the proceeds going to refugee assistance. Our designated grantee is the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS)\, the oldest refugee aid organization in the world.  We suggest a minimum donation of $36 per household\, but please give more if you can or less if you need to.  All tickets are 100% tax-deductible.   \nIf you love music\, this program will feed your soul! \n \nxxxxx \nThe event will begin at 3 p.m. ET/12 noon PT. \nMEET THE MUSICIANS \nCantor Arianne Brown\, of Adas Israel Congregation in Washington DC\, was invested as a Hazzan and received a Master of Arts in Sacred Music from the Jewish Theological Seminary.  She has appeared at Carnegie Hall\, Safra Hall\, Disney Hall\, the Krakow Jewish Music Festival\, and Warsaw’s Ida Kaminska State Theatre. She sang the national anthem at Dodger Stadium and the Kodak Theater for President Obama’s Jewish Heritage address and for Prime Minister Netanyahu.  Theater roles include Lili in Carnival\, Hodel in Fiddler on the Roof\, Hope in Anything Goes\, Luisa in The Fantasticks\, and Zorah in Ruddigore. Opera credits include roles in Carmen\, The Marriage of Figaro\, and Amelia Goes to the Ball. Arianne was proud to produce and perform in the premiere of highlights from Neely Bruce’s Circular 14: The Apotheosis of Aristides for Adas Israel’s Garden of the Righteous ceremony. Arianne is married to Rabbi Randy Brown and is the proud Ima of three little boys. \nComposer/pianist Neely Bruce is the John Spencer Camp Professor of Music at Wesleyan University. He is the composer of over 800 works\, including operas\, oratorios and other choral music\, orchestral works\, solo songs\, seven documentary scores for public television\, and some 14 hours of solo piano music. He is the only pianist to have accompanied all of the solo vocal music of Charles Ives. In 2005\, Bruce set the Bill of Rights to music\, in the style of William Billings. This work\, for chorus and eight instruments\, has been performed 35 times. His most recent major work is a dramatic oratorio entitled Circular 14: The Apotheosis of Aristides. \nStephan Kirchgraber\, bass\, made his debut with the Miami Opera\, after studies at the University of Illinois and in Munich\, returning to Miami for principal roles in Macbeth\, Norma\, Turandot\, and Alberto Franchetti’s Cristoforo Colombo. In recent seasons\, he sang at the Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice in Rigoletto and Verdi’s Requiem\, and in Fidelio with the Shippensburg Festival Symphony and Chorus. He appeared in Aida with the Opera de Puerto Rico and in Andrea Chenier with Culturarte de Puerto Rico\, released on DVD. Mr. Kirchgraber made his European debut in Die Meistersinger at the Festival dei due Mondi in Spoleto\, toured with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Pecs in Beethoven’s Ninth\, and appeared in Salome at the Opernhaus Zurich. He also appeared with the opera companies of Augusta\, Baltimore\, Orlando\, Palm Beach\, Pittsburgh\, Tampa\, and Utah\, and has toured with the New York City Opera. In 1998\, he received the Robert M. Lauch Memorial Grant from the Wagner Society of New York. \nRegistration for this event has closed. \n\nxxxxxThis event is co-sponsored by the University of Miami’s Holocaust Teacher Institute.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/virtual-event-the-power-of-music/
CATEGORIES:Concert,Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200621T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200621T170000
DTSTAMP:20260418T123719
CREATED:20200529T234637Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200619T060340Z
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SUMMARY:Father's Day virtual program -- Jacob Lotenberg and the Green Suitcase
DESCRIPTION:xxxxxx\nxxxxx\nDr. Andrée Lotey\, professor of French literature at the University of Montreal\, lost her father when she was five and was raised in Montreal by her French-Canadian mother. Andrée’s Polish-born father remained a mystery to her until after her mother’s death\, when by chance she uncovered a green suitcase in her mother’s basement. On this Father’s Day virtual program\, Andrée will share her process of discovery and self-discovery in this true-life genealogical detective story that led her to the Lodz Ghetto\, the Holocaust hero Aristides de Sousa Mendes and other momentous figures and events of history. Together we will watch a short film about her story\, and then Andrée will be interviewed by Robert Jacobvitz (bio below) and will take your questions. This program is a love letter to the father she barely knew.\nxxxxx \nRobert Jacobvitz is a graduate of Yeshiva University’s Wurzweiler School of Social Work and holds an MSW in Community Social Work. For ten years he directed the Jewish Community Relations Council of the Greater East Bay\, and it was in this capacity in the 1980’s that he began championing the cause of Aristides de Sousa Mendes. In 2005 he received the Aristides de Sousa Mendes Humanitarian Medal from the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation. His paper “Reinstating the Name and Honor of a Portuguese Diplomat Who Rescued Jews during World War II” was published in the Winter/Spring 2008 issue of The Journal of Jewish Communal Service. He is the Chair of the Sousa Mendes Foundation’s Advisory Council.\n\nxxxxx\n\n*** PLEASE NOTE:  Registration for this event is now closed. For information on our upcoming events\, please click here.\nxxxxx\nxxxxx\nThis event is co-sponsored by the Jewish Public Library of Montreal and the Montreal Holocaust Museum.\nxxxxx\n\n 
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/fathers-day-program-jacob-lotenberg-and-the-green-suitcase/
CATEGORIES:Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200614T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200614T170000
DTSTAMP:20260418T123719
CREATED:20200602T231238Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200614T200005Z
UID:18482-1592150400-1592154000@sousamendesfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Virtual Film and Discussion: Nicky's Family
DESCRIPTION:Psychologist Dr. Eva Fogelman will be in dialogue with Columbia University Film Professor Dr. Annette Insdorf about this moving documentary directed by Matej Minac. Nicholas Winton organized the rescue of 669 children just before the outbreak of WWII as part of the Kindertransport project. Winton kept silent about his exploits until his wife uncovered a suitcase in the attic full of documents and transport plans fifty years later. The psychological effects on the child survivors and the parents who let them go were profound. \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE: \n⇒ June 12-14\, any time\, RENT THE FILM on Amazon (free if you have Amazon Prime) at this link. \n⇒ June 12-14\, any time\, WATCH THE FILM on your home device. \n⇒ June 14 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, DISCUSS THE FILM\, its context and its relevance to today. Meet psychologist Dr. Eva Fogelman and film critic Dr. Annette Insdorf.  They will have a discussion and then take questions. \nxxxxx \n \nMEET THE SPEAKERS \nDr. Eva Fogelman is a psychologist in private practice in New York City and an authority on Holocaust rescue and the altruistic personality. She is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated book\, Conscience and Courage:  Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust. In 1986 she co-founded the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous\, then called the Jewish Foundation for Christian Rescuers. She is co-editor of Children During the Nazi Reign: Psychological Perspective on the Interview Process. Dr. Fogelman wrote and co-produced the award-winning documentary\, Breaking the Silence:  The Generation After the Holocaust. She was honored at the Sousa Mendes Foundation’s 2017 gala for her pioneering contributions to Holocaust studies and her compassionate work with aging survivors today. \nAnnette Insdorf\, an internationally renowned film scholar\, is Professor of Film at Columbia University’s School of the Arts\, and Moderator of the 92nd Street Y’s Reel Pieces series\, where she has interviewed hundreds of celebrities. Dr. Insdorf is the author of numerous books including the landmark study Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust (with a foreword by Elie Wiesel) and Cinematic Overtures: How to Read Opening Scenes.  Born in Paris to Polish Holocaust survivors\, she moved to New York as a young child. She received her BA from Queens College and her Ph.D. from Yale University\, where she taught for over ten years. \nxxxxx \nPLEASE NOTE:  Registration for this event is now closed.  To sign up for our upcoming events\, please click here.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/nickys-family/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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