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SUMMARY:Lisbon — Harbor of Hope
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nView Pavel Schnabel‘s award-winning film\, Lisbon — Harbor of Hope\, then join us for the discussion. The film follows several Jewish families who escaped Nazi Germany to Lisbon from 1933-38\, before the outbreak of war.  For those families it was still permissible to settle in Portugal\, and the film interviews several of these survivors. The Sousa Mendes story is also told\, through the diplomat’s son\, Pedro Nuno de Sousa Mendes\, who was a witness and participant in his father’s rescue action. \n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ October 27-30\, watch the film Lisbon — Harbor of Hope on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, October 29 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of guests.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nxxxxx \nDocumentary filmmaker Pavel Schnabel was born in 1946 in Olomouc\, Czechoslovakia and studied at the Film and Television Academy in Prague. He emigrated in 1968 and settled in Germany. Pavel Schnabel has worked for many years as a freelance director and cameraman in Germany and has been awarded several international and German prizes and nominations for his films. In addition to Lisbon — Harbor of Hope\, his award-winning films include Now… After All These Years\, The Violin\, and many others. \nVivian Shapiro\, right\, from Toronto\, was born in Portugal to German Jewish parents. Her family’s story of escape is depicted in the film Lisbon — Harbor of Hope. She is a co-author of Entangled No More and the author of Go Vibrant!… notes and anecdotes on loving and living the joie de VIVre. As a teacher\, vice principal and principal\, and later Education Director of a charity for youth\, she spearheaded programs and conferences to empower disenfranchised young people. She is a recipient of the 2012 Amazing Aces in Action Award and the 2018 Celebrating Outstanding Women Award for Philanthropy\, for her work with the Herbert H. Carnegie Future Aces Foundation and the Toronto community. \n \nMariana Abrantes\, left\, is a Board member and the Portugal representative of the Sousa Mendes Foundation. Coming from a village in central Portugal\, she studied Economics at UC-Berkeley and earned an MA from Princeton University. After training and working in Chase Manhattan Bank\, she returned to Portugal\, where she worked at the European Investment Bank. She also served in the Portuguese government’s Ministries of Transport and Health\, and on the Boards of international investment funds and the Fulbright Commission Portugal.  She is a dual Portuguese-US citizen. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/lisbon-harbor-of-hope/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Otto Weidt — A Blind Hero
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nOtto Weidt was a visually impaired Holocaust rescuer who was named Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem. He owned a workshop in Berlin that manufactured brushes and brooms created by visually impaired workers\, many of whom were Jewish. During the Nazi period he found hiding places for his Jewish employees\, with the help of his sighted assistant Alice Licht. When Licht herself was deported to Auschwitz\, Weidt traveled to the concentration camp\, alone\, to try to save her. A unique story of love and determination! \n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ September 8-11\, watch the film A Blind Hero: The Love of Otto Weidt on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n\n⇒ Sunday\, September 10 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers.  A link will be provided to all who register. \n\nxxxxx \nWATCH THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nxxxxx \n \nYermi Brenner\, born in Israel in 1980\, is the grandson of Alice Licht\, a Jewish Berliner who supported Otto Weidt’s efforts to rescue Jews from the Nazis and used Weidt’s workshop as a hideout. Yermi is a marketing communication professional with a background in international journalism. He wrote about his grandmother’s heroic Holocaust survival story and the role of Otto Weidt in a personal essay for the book A Place They Call Home: Reclaiming Citizenship. In 2022\, Yermi resettled in Israel after having lived for eight years in Berlin\, and rejoined – together with his wife and toddler – the community he grew up in\, Kibbutz Hatzor\, which is now home to Alice Licht’s son\, grandsons and great-grandchildren. \n \nAriane Kwasigroch works at the Jewish Museum of Berlin and has been working for more than 20 years on the topics of collaboration\, education & digital media in memorial sites and museums. She was involved in the founding and development of the museum devoted to Otto Weidt’s Workshop for the Blind in Berlin. Since 2010\, she has been involved in various projects at the Jewish Museum: the outreach program “Jewish Museum Berlin on.tour” for schools\, the development of the children’s museum ANOHA\, the children’s advisory board and the development of the website https://anoha.de/en.  She is inspired by the story of Otto Weidt and other rescuers. \nDr. Mordecai Paldiel headed the Righteous Among the Nations Department at Yad Vashem from 1982-2007. Some of his books on rescue during the Holocaust include The Path of the Righteous\, Sheltering the Jews\, Saving the Jews\, Diplomat Heroes of the Holocaust\, and Saving One’s Own. He taught at Yeshiva University and Touro College and serves on the Board of the Sousa Mendes Foundation. Thanks to his efforts\, there is now a square named for Aristides de Sousa Mendes in Jerusalem. He is a member of the B’nai B’rith committee in Israel honoring Jewish rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/otto-weidt-the-blind-schindler/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Hubert Humphrey and Human Rights
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nJoin Samuel Freedman and Jane Eisner as they discuss Freedman’s new book\, Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights. Their discussion will focus on Humphrey’s fight against antisemitism in post-World War II America. \n \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \nSamuel G. Freedman is an award-winning author\, New York Times columnist\, and professor at Columbia University. He is the author most recently of Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights. His previous books are Small Victories: The Real World of a Teacher\, Her Students and Their High School; Upon This Rock: The Miracles of a Black Church; The Inheritance: How Three Families and America Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond; Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry; Who She Was: My Search for My Mother’s Life; Letters To A Young Journalist; and Breaking The Line: The Season in Black College Football That Transformed the Game and Changed the Course of Civil Rights. \nJane Eisner is the former Editor-in-Chief of The Forward. She recently completed a multi-year appointment as director of academic affairs at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University\, overseeing the Master of Arts program. She is known for her interviews of such notable figures as President Barack Obama\, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg\, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\, and many others. Eisner is the author of Taking Back the Vote: Getting American Youth Involved in Our Democracy\, and is working on a book about Carole King for Yale University Press. She is a graduate of Wesleyan University and Columbia Journalism School. \nxxxxx \nxxxxxRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/humphrey-and-human-rights/
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion
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SUMMARY:Germans Against Hitler -- The Story of the Helmrich Couple\, Holocaust Rescuers
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nEberhard and Donata Helmrich\, from Berlin\, were anti-Nazis throughout the Nazi period. A major in the German army\, Eberhard was the commander of a large farm in Drohobycz\, Poland\, supplying the German army with food. Almost two-thirds of his 300 workers were Jews from the nearby ghetto\, and thanks to his efforts many of them were saved from arrest or the periodic roundups. Donata saved women by finding housekeeping jobs for them in Berlin under false identities. When asked for the reason of their help at great risks to themselves\, the Helmrichs responded\, “We figured that once we saved two people we’d be even with Hitler if we were caught\, and every person saved beyond that would put us one ahead.” Eberhard and Donata Helmrich were honored by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations.  \n \nxxxxx \nWATCH THE TRAILER\nxxxxx \n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ August 18-21\, watch the animated documentary film Two Trees in Jerusalem on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n\n⇒ Sunday\, August 20 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers.  A link will be provided to all who register. \n\nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nxxxxx \n \nDr. Lucien Yehuda Bronicki was born in Lwow in 1934\, and during the Holocaust he was in Drohobycz. In 1946 he moved to France and eventually became a physicist. His father Naftali Backenroth was a Jewish rescuer who worked closely with the Helmrich couple. Dr. Bronicki worked in the Nuclear Research Centre in Saclay (France) then in 1958 emigrated to Israel and joined the National Physical Laboratory to develop solar-powered turbines. He is the recipient of the Israeli Prize for Industry\, the U.K. Royal Academy of Engineering Prince Philip Medal and the Pioneers Award from the US Geothermal Research Council. He received a PhD (Honoris Causa) both from the Technion Institute of Technology and from the Weizmann Institute of Science. \nShoshana Schaffer\, born in 1933 in Drohobycz\, Poland had her life drastically change in 1941 as the Germans invaded her town. She and her parents were sent to the Hyrawka labor camp\, although the camp was meant for adults without children. Eberhard Helmrich knew that there were children in the camp\, and during dangerous times would warn the parents to hide their children. With his help they managed to escape and find shelter with a Ukrainian family\, who protected them until the end of the war. She then went to a refugee camp in Germany\, and finally to Israel. She has four children and ten grandchildren and is the author of My Hiding Place\, an illustrated children’s book that tells her dramatic story. \nDr. Mordecai Paldiel headed the Righteous Among the Nations Department at Yad Vashem from 1982-2007. Some of his books on rescue during the Holocaust include The Path of the Righteous\, Sheltering the Jews\, Saving the Jews\, Diplomat Heroes of the Holocaust\, and Saving One’s Own. He taught at Yeshiva University and Touro College and serves on the Board of the Sousa Mendes Foundation. Thanks to his efforts\, there is now a square named for Aristides de Sousa Mendes in Jerusalem. He is a member of the B’nai B’rith committee in Israel honoring Jewish rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.  Links and instructions will be sent to all registrants on Friday\, August 18 and again on the morning of the program.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/germans-against-hitler/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Navalny
DESCRIPTION:Not to be missed!  See the film that won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2023. Learn about Alexei Navalny\, the Russian opposition leader and political prisoner who stood up to Putin. Meet our stellar panel of guests. \n \nxxxxx \nWinner\, Best Documentary Feature\, 2023 Academy Awards \nxxxxx \nWATCH THE TRAILER\nxxxxx \n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ August 4-14\, watch the film Navalny on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n\n⇒ Upon registration\, receive the link to view the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. \n\nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \nChristo Grozev (left) is the renowned Bulgarian investigative journalist and author who cracked the Navalny poisoning case. He is the lead Russia investigator with Bellingcat\, an independent investigative collective of researchers\, investigators and citizen journalists brought together by a passion for open source research\, which includes focusing on security threats\, extra-territorial clandestine operations\, and the weaponization of information. His investigations into the identity of the suspects involved in the prior\, notorious 2018 poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal earned him and his team the European Press Prize for Investigative Journalism. \n \nKarl von Habsburg (right) is an Austrian politician\, journalist and the current head of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. He is the son of the late Otto von Habsburg and the grandson of the last Austrian Emperor\, Charles I. The Navalny film was his initiative. He began his career as a military pilot\, and in 1996 he was elected as a Member of the European Parliament for the Austrian People’s Party. He is also the president of the Austrian branch of the Paneuropean Union\, which aims to unite all Europeans in a strong Europe. In 1940\, his family was rescued from Nazi-occupied Europe by Aristides de Sousa Mendes. \n \nDr. Jud Newborn (moderator\, left) was the Founding Historian of New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust\, and co-author of the acclaimed Sophie Scholl and the White Rose. A dramatic multimedia lecturer\, he has spoken throughout North America\, at the UN and worldwide. He was awarded his PhD with Distinction by the University of Chicago following three years of adventurous fieldwork as a Fulbright and Woodrow Wilson National Fellow\, including hunting down former SS officers and working undercover during communist martial law in Poland. He received the Anne Frank Center’s prestigious “Spirit of Anne Frank Award” and is the Emmy Award-winning Producer of Special Programs for Long Island’s Cinema Arts Centre. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/navalny/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Visas for Life -- The Sousa Mendes Story
DESCRIPTION:The Sousa Mendes Foundation presents a five-part film series created in partnership with Portuguese television.  The series\, called Visas for Life\, traces the stories of numerous families saved by the Portuguese Consul General in Bordeaux\, France\, Aristides de Sousa Mendes.  Join us each week for a new episode. \n \nxxxxx \nSEE THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ Each week\, from June 11 to July 2\, watch a new half-hour episode of the film series Visas for Life on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. New episodes will drop on Sundays at 9 AM ET. \n⇒ Sunday\, June 18\, 2 PM ET\, tune into PROGRAM 1 with our first panel of guests.  A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, July 2\, 2 PM ET\, tune into PROGRAM 2 with a different panel.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANELISTS\n  \nLúcia Gonçalves is a Portuguese journalist and documentary filmmaker with SIC news network\, and the creator of the film series\, Visas for Life. She is mostly known for her exploration of social and health subjects. She produced and anchored the show Beating Cancer\, for which she won an award and released a book in 2010. She later released a second book\, Survivors\, written as a part of a documentary series. She has hosted debates and conducted interviews\, and for 15 years was SIC Porto’s News Editor. Among the various awards she has received\, most notable are two prizes she won during the pandemic\, awarded to two documentary films: Critical State and Game of Illusions. \n \nMichael Spett is featured in the film series\, Visas for Life. He is a retired New York City printer-publisher now residing in Florida. Born in Brussels\, Belgium\, he escaped with his family via France and Portugal. In 1986 the family’s Portuguese visa\, signed by Aristides de Sousa Mendes in Bordeaux\, was reproduced in The Courage to Care\, a book about the Righteous Gentiles that was designed and printed by his firm. This led to his participation in the Portuguese documentary film Le Consul proscrit and subsequently to the production of another Holocaust related book\, The Yellow Star. He is a member of the Advisory Council of the Sousa Mendes Foundation. \nMargarida Mascarenhas is the great-granddaughter of Aristides de Sousa Mendes and she is featured in Visas for Life. Her grandmother was the diplomat’s eldest daughter\, Clotilde. Twenty years ago\, she decided to work with and for people through museums\, as she believe museums have the power to transform lives. Working in the Educational Department of Lisbon’s Orient Museum has given her that opportunity. Every day\, she tries to guide her actions with respect\, empathy\, sensitivity\, humility\, flexibility\, open spirit\, and creativity. Her training is in Anthropology with a specialization in Heritage Management and Cultural Action to which other experiences\, namely in teaching and in different cultural facilities\, have added a continuous motivation. \nRon Brunell is a managing principal at The Signature B&B Companies and the son of Sousa Mendes visa recipient Jerry Brunell. Ron is featured in the film series Visas for Life. He serves on the Board of Directors of The Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County and is a member of its Executive Committee. He is the immediate past chair of the Applied Client Network\, a national agency automation users group. Recently he also served on The Plattsburgh College Foundation board of directors. He also serves on various insurance company agency councils. As an Acrisure agency partner\, he is on several agency task forces. He resides in Woodmere with his wife\, Deborah\, and they have two children and one grandchild. \nIva Wummer is a Sousa Mendes visa recipient whose story is told in the film series Visas for Life. Born in Prague to a Jewish father and a Catholic mother\, she escaped Nazi-occupied Europe and arrived in Brazil\, where she grew up. Stricken with polio as a child\, Iva was carried as a five-year-old by her father during their exodus in 1940.  Her father became a prominent citizen in Rio de Janeiro\, and was awarded the keys to the city. For the past 38 years she has lived in Florida\, where she started a successful security business that she still runs. She is the author of a memoir titled Miracles: The Story of Iva Polak Wummer. \nAvi Losice is the Israeli representative of the Sousa Mendes Foundation.  He is a descendant of three generations who received June 1940 visas from Aristides de Sousa Mendes.  He was born and raised in Albany\, NY.  Avi was educated at City University of New York and New York University in addition to Yeshiva Torah Vodaath. He was an analyst and a manager at Standard & Poor’s and an Assistant Director at the US Securities and Exchange Commission.  Avi and his family have made Aliyah and reside in Jerusalem.  He was one of the key organizers of the Sousa Mendes events in Jerusalem organized by the Sousa Mendes Foundation together with Yad Vashem and the City of Jerusalem. \n \nDr. Mordecai Paldiel (right) 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. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed. \nThis film series is brought to you through the generous support of Iva Wummer\, who is featured in Visas for Life.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/visas-for-life-the-sousa-mendes-story/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:"We Must Save the Children" -- The Newly-Uncovered Story of the Heroic Railway Workers of Lille\, France
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nOn September 11\, 1942\, a spontaneous rescue action occurred in Lille\, France. On that day\, the Jews of Lille were arrested and brought to the railyard\, from where they awaited deportation. The rail workers\, realizing what was happening\, created an instant rescue network to remove as many Jews as possible from the railyard\, particularly the children\, and spirit them to safety\, right under the noses of the Nazi guards. The film Sauvons les enfants tells that remarkable story for the first time. In 2020 the station master was named Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem. \n \nxxxx \n2022 winner of Best Documentary Film — French Cinema Critics Union \n2022 winner of Best Documentary Film — Historia magazine \nxxxxx \nSEE THE TRAILER\n \nxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ June 2-5\, watch the film Sauvons les enfants (We Must Save The Children) on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n\n⇒ Sunday\, June 4 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers.  A link will be provided to all who register. \n\nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nxxxxx \nSauvons les Enfants (“We Must Save the Children”) is the latest of French director Catherine Bernstein‘s films on rescue and resistance during World War II. It won the Best Documentary Award at the Historia Journal and the French Union of Film Critics 2023. She also made three documentaries shot in Germany dealing with German guilt: Oma (Vic-Le-Conte Award)\, Sour Grapes (Jean Lodz Scam 2000 Award) and The Absent Ones. Murder of a Hatmaker\, made in 2006\, dealt with the plundering of the Jews by the Vichy government\, winning awards worldwide. Her film Alan Turing\, The Code of Life was made in 2015. Her film Fritz Bauer\, a Prosecutor Against the Nazis was broadcast on Arte Télévision and won numerous awards. \n\n\n\n\nDr. Shulamit Reinharz (right)\, who will moderate the program\, 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). Her book\, Hiding\, about her father’s Holocaust experience\, is forthcoming. In 2017\, she retired from Brandeis and became Professor Emerita. She is a sought after speaker and interviewer and has participated in numerous Sunday programs of the Sousa Mendes Foundation.\n\n\n\nHistorian Dr. Susan Zuccotti (left) is the author of the groundbreaking book The Holocaust\, the French and the Jews. She holds a PhD in Modern European History from Columbia University. She has won a National Jewish Book Award and the Premio Acqui Storia – Primo Lavoro for Italians and the Holocaust (1987). She also received a National Jewish Book Award and the Sybil Halpern Milton Memorial Prize of the German Studies Association for Under His Very Windows (2000) on Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust. She has taught courses on Holocaust history at both Barnard and Trinity Colleges. She has appeared as a historical expert in numerous documentary films. \n\n\n\nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/saving-the-children/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Wilfrid Israel\, Holocaust Hero
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nWilfrid Israel\, a Berlin department store magnate and art collector\, was German Jewry’s “secret ambassador” to England from 1938-43. He worked with the British diplomat/spy Frank Foley\, Righteous Among the Nations\, to secure life-saving British visas for thousands of German Jews and was the “essential link” in the establishment of the Kindertransport operation. He also was a key benefactor of the Youth Aliyah movement and was a co-founder of Kibbutz Hazorea.  Time and again\, he had opportunities to remain safe in England or Palestine\, and yet he kept going back to Germany to rescue more Jews. On his last rescue mission\, Wilfrid Israel was shot down by the Wehrmacht over the English channel. Albert Einstein said of the businessman\, “Never in my life have I come in contact with a being so noble\, so strong and as selfless as Wilfrid Israel.”  A fascinating and multilayered life! \nxxxxx \nWATCH THE TRAILER\nxxxxx \n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ May 19-22\, watch Yonatan Nir‘s film The Essential Link: The Story of Wilfrid Israel on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, May 21 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of guests.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \n \nAward-winning filmmaker Yonatan Nir (right) has been telling stories for over a decade. From epic photojournalist reports to the critically acclaimed Dolphin Boy which was acquired by Disney Pictures and screened in over 130 film festivals\, he successfully captures and portrays unique relationships formed between humans and nature. After Dolphin Boy\, Nir went on to direct and produce Cutting the Pain\, My Hero Brother\, The Essential Link: The Story of Wilfrid Israel and Picture of His Life. Nir is also a sought-after speaker and has given many lectures around the world\, from the United Nations to TedX. \nDr. Ilan Baer (left) is featured in the film The Essential Link about Wilfrid Israel\, together with his brother Ophir Baer. The two brothers were born and raised in Kibbutz Hazorea in Israel\, where their father created and managed a museum devoted to the memory of Wilfrid Israel — housing his art collection and documenting his heroic wartime activities. Uri Baer was Wilfrid Israel’s friend\, and letters were exchanged between them. Ilan Baer serves on the B’nai B’rith committee that honors Jewish rescuers of Jews. He is a medical doctor. \nAuthor Naomi Shepherd wrote the definitive biography of Wilfrid Israel. Born and educated in the UK (BA Oxford University-Somerville College)\, she worked initially in journalism and publishing in London\, with brief working periods in France and Italy. She was the Israel correspondent of The New Statesman and an occasional contributor to The Guardian\, The New York Times\, Commentary\, and other publications. Among her books are A Price Below Rubies: Jewish Women as Rebels and Radicals\, The Zealous Intruders- the Western Rediscovery of Palestine; Ploughing Sand-British Rule in Palestine; The Ordeal of Freedom; the Russians in Israel; The Mayor and the Citadel; Alarms and Excursions and a book of short stories: Ashes.  She is widowed\, and the mother of three children (one deceased) and seven grandchildren. \n \nDr. Jud Newborn (moderator) was the Founding Historian of New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust\, and co-author of the acclaimed Sophie Scholl and the White Rose. A dramatic multimedia lecturer\, he has spoken throughout North America\, at the UN and worldwide. He was awarded his PhD with Distinction by the Univ. of Chicago following three years of adventurous fieldwork as a Fulbright and Woodrow Wilson National Fellow\, including hunting down former SS officers and working undercover during communist martial law in Poland. He was honored with the Anne Frank Center’s prestigious “Spirit of Anne Frank Award” and is the Emmy Award-winning Producer of Special Programs for Long Island’s Cinema Arts Centre. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/wilfrid-israel-holocaust-hero/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Sally Noach -- The Angel of Lyon
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nThis program tells the story of the Jewish hero Salomon “Sally” Noach\, who is remembered as the “angel” of the city of Lyon\, France. He acted at great personal risk to rescue Jews who had been already captured by the Gestapo.  See a new film about him that will touch your heart\, and then meet his son along with one of the people that he saved. \n \nxxxxx \nSEE THE TRAILER\nxxxxx                                                  \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ May 5-8\, watch the film The Forgotten Soldier on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n\n⇒ Sunday\, May 7 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nxxxxx \nJacques Noach (right) is the eldest son of Sally Noach and Annie Visser. Born in London in 1946\, he worked as an accountant with Mazars\, and retired in 2009. Following his father’s death in 1980\, he donated his father’s archives to the NIOD – The Institute for War\, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam. In 2022 he published a book\, Het ongeloof  (“Disbelief”)\, about his father’s story. He carried out extensive research into the “Sally Noach File” of the Dutch wartime government and discovered some shocking revelations about the “support” that government provided to Dutch refugees. Jacques Noach has been awarded the French title of “Chevalier dans l’Ordre National de Mérite.” \nHerman Veder (left) was rescued by Sally Noach\, along with his family. He then went on to pursue a career as a race car driver\, becoming the “fastest Jew in the world.” He was six when he and his family were arrested in August 1942 and jailed at the Palais de Justice in Lyon. Noach secured their release with false identity papers — discovered by Jacques Noach in an Amsterdam archive — which had altered the family’s religion from Jewish to Calvinist. The papers allowed the family to travel from France to safety in the Dutch colony of Suriname on the northeastern Atlantic coast of South America. He is featured in the film The Forgotten Soldier. \n \nDr. Mordecai Paldiel (right) 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. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/sally-noach-the-angel-of-lyon/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Besa -- The Promise
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nThis is the true story of an American photographer determined to record the bravery and compassion of Albanians who rescued Jews during the Holocaust. It is also the story of an Albanian Muslim who must fulfill a promise his father made to the Jewish family they sheltered. Their meeting sets in motion an extraordinary and unexpected drama that bridges generations and religions … uniting fathers and sons\, Muslims and Jews.\n \nRachel Goslins\, Director/Producer \nChristine S. Romero\, Producer/Editor \nJason Williams & Bill Morgan\, Producers \nMusic by Philip Glass \nSpecial Jury Award\, Festival of Albanian Film\nBest Documentary\, Washington Jewish Film Festival\nBest Documentary\, Beaufort International Film Festival\nBest Director\, Beaufort International Film Festival\nBest Documentary\, Seattle Jewish Film Festival \nxxxxx \nSEE THE TRAILER\nxxxxx \n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ April 21-24\, watch the film Besa – The Promise on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, April 23 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of guests. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nxxxxx \n \nDr. Mordecai Paldiel (right) 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. \nBorn 1968 in Tel Aviv\, Shay Etrogy (left) is the son of Aron Etrogy — who was born in Bulgaria in 1932 and was saved by the Hoxha family in Albania. Both Shay and Aron appear in the film Besa — The Promise. Shay Etrogy studied at the Henrietta Szold school. After service in the Israeli army as a wireless operator\, Shay graduated (Bachelor of Science) in civilian engineering from the Israel Technological Institute. He works as chief executive officer of the Ashtrom construction company (specializing in residential and public buildings). Shay is married to Osnat\, and father of three children. \n\nErmal Hoxha (right) is the son of Rexhep Hoxha and the grandson of Albanian Muslim rescuers Rifat and Fejzije Hoxha who saved a Jewish family during World War II and safeguarded their prayer books for decades thereafter\, at great personal risk. His family’s efforts to return these books is told in Besa — The Promise\, and he appears in the film. He lives in Tirana\, Albania\, in the same house where his grandparents\, who were named Righteous Among the Nations\, hosted and protected the Etrogy family. He studied Architecture in Ferrara\, Italy and now holds a Ph.D. and teaches urban design at a private university in Tirana. \nFilmmaker Jason Williams (left) possesses a rare skillset\, combining nuanced storytelling with deal-making acumen. The result – to date – are two wholly independent production companies as well as multiple Primetime and News & Documentary Emmy Awards. He has executive produced\, produced and directed over 400 hours of programming for Smithsonian\, PBS\, Discovery\, National Geographic\, History and the UK’s BBC\, Channel 4 and C5. His films share a common belief: that scientific enquiry\, commercial success and editorial excellence are not opposing forces. His film Besa — The Promise has been highly acclaimed. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/besa-the-promise/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Into the Arms of Strangers
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nThis prizewinning film tells the touching and heartwarming stories of Jewish children from Germany\, Austria and Czechoslovakia saved in England in 1938-39 under the Kindertransport program\, prior to the onset of World War II. \n \nxxxxx \nWATCH THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ March 24-27\, watch the Academy Award winning film Into the Arms of Strangers on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, March 26 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nxxxxx \nMark Jonathan Harris is an Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker and Distinguished Professor in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. His films include The Redwoods\, which won an Oscar for Best Short Documentary (1968); The Long Way Home\, Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary (1997); and Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport\, which won the Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary in 2000 and was selected by the U.S. Library of Congress for inclusion in the National Film Registry. Foster\, which he wrote and directed\, aired on HBO in 2019 and was nominated for Best Documentary Screenplay by the Writers Guild of America.  In 2021\, Asian Americans\, a 5-part series for PBS for which he was Consulting Producer\, received a Peabody Award. \nLady Milena Grenfell-Baines\, born in Czechoslovakia in 1929 as Milena Fleischmann\, is a survivor of the Kindertransport program that brought 10\,000 Jewish children to England after Kristallnacht. She was a member for six years of the management board of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and was awarded the title of MBE (Member of the British Empire) for her services to music. She was awarded the Silver Medal of Jan Masaryk for her contributions to strengthening ties between the Czech Republic and the United Kingdom. She visits schools on behalf of the Holocaust Educational Trust\, giving talks about Nicholas Winton and her escape to England. She has a daughter\, a son\, two step daughters\, 4 grandchildren and 4 great grandchildren. \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. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/into-the-arms-of-strangers/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Yankee Resistance: The Story of a Small Connecticut Town that Challenged the Nazis and Won
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nIn 1937 the German-American Bund bought land in Southbury\, CT with plans to build Camp General Von Steuben\, a Hitler-Youth style camp. However\, the residents of the small town chose to find a way to stop this from happening. The newspapers across the country picked up the story about the small town of 1300 residents who were ready to fight against the seemingly powerful Bund\, which many believed was controlled directly by Hitler. \n \nxxxxx \nTHE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ March 17-20\, watch the film Home of the Brave — When Southbury said NO to the Nazis on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, March 19 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of guests.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \n \nRabbi Eric Polokoff (left) is B’nai Israel of Southbury’s founding rabbi. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Connecticut Community Foundation\, is Associate Chaplain of the Taft School\, and serves on Executive Committee of the Connecticut branch of the ADL and as an ADL Associate National Commissioner. Rabbi Polokoff is also known regionally as one of the “Three Amigos\,” working with a Monsignor and an Imam to extend interfaith understanding. His educational background includes Johns Hopkins University (BA); Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (MAHL\, Rabbinic Ordination\, DD); Yale Divinity School (STM). \n \nEd Edelson (right) is the former First Selectman of Southbury\, Connecticut. He led the committee to produce the documentary Home of the Brave in 2012. He appeared in the film and continues to present the story. In 2020 he published a children’s historical fiction book called Lois’s Story: A Young Girl’s Inspiration Helps Stop Hate and Fear. Ed and his wife Christine moved to Southbury to open Cornucopia at Oldfield Bed and Breakfast. Before that he had a corporate career with an international energy company. He is a graduate of Cornell University (BS) and Harvard University (MPA). Ed and Christine have three children and six grandchildren. \n \nDr. Jud Newborn (guest host/moderator\, at left) was the Founding Historian of New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. He co-authored the acclaimed Sophie Scholl and the White Rose. He was awarded his PhD with Distinction by the University of Chicago following three years of adventurous fieldwork as a Fulbright and Woodrow Wilson National Fellow. He was honored with the Anne Frank Center’s prestigious “Spirit of Anne Frank Award” and is the Emmy Award-winning Producer of Special Programs for Long Island’s Cinema Arts Centre. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/southbury/
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SUMMARY:Remembrance in Germany Today -- Stories of Hope
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nNowadays\, 90 years after Hitler seized power\, Germany has a vibrant remembrance culture aimed at raising public consciousness about the crimes of the past and the importance of standing up against bigotry and in support of democracy. Much of the most meaningful work is being done by unsung volunteers in towns and villages across the country.  \nWiden the Circle\, a US-based organization\, recognizes individuals and groups in Germany who are working to restore German-Jewish history and culture\, and who use the lessons of that history to fight antisemitism\, racism\, and xenophobia. Far from the spotlight and on their own time\, these individuals and groups are building a culture of hope and reconciliation in their communities. \nxxxxx \nLEARN ABOUT THE WORK OF “WIDEN THE CIRCLE”\n \n\nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nxxxxx \n\n\nChristiane Simon is a German remembrance activist who became inspired as a high school student. Christiane’s teacher\, Sabeth Schmidthals\, received an Obermayer Award for the innovative work she and her students undertake on local history issues. With Schmidthals’ Remembrance AG organization for young people\, Christiane worked on building a memorial at a deportation site across the street from their school\, participated in history plays depicting the lives of Jews who were sent to death camps\, and engaged in many public education projects. She remains active in remembrance work and is currently studying to be a counselor.\n\n\n\n\n\n \nJoel Obermayer is founder and executive director of Widen the Circle and a director of the Obermayer Foundation. The Obermayer family has a long history of working to create positive change through tikkun olam (repairing the world)\, including by starting a powerful project in Germany to preserve Jewish history and culture. Widen the Circle extends that project by working with people uncovering history related to oppression and using the lessons of that history to create a more just world today. It provides support\, connections\, expertise\, broader exposure and\, through the Obermayer Awards to encourage and facilitate this important work. \n \n\n\n\n\nDr. Shulamit Reinharz\, who will moderate the program\, 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). Her book\, Hiding\, about her father’s Holocaust experience\, is forthcoming. In 2017\, she retired from Brandeis and became Professor Emerita. She is a sought after speaker and interviewer and has participated in numerous Sunday programs of the Sousa Mendes Foundation.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed. \nxxxxx \nThis program is co-presented with Widen the Circle.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/germany/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:A Protest to the World: The Dramatic Story of Szmul Artur Zygielbojm
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nSzmul Artur Zygielbojm was a Polish Jewish socialist politician and member of the Polish Government-in-Exile in London during World War II. A lifelong activist\, he is most famous for his final act of protest to the world against the indifference of the Allies to the fate of Europe’s Jews. In this richly multimedia and life-affirming film-and-discussion program\, Dr. Jud Newborn interweaves his thrilling discovery of Zygielbojm’s lost artifacts with an elegy to the lost world of the Jewish shtetl. \n \nxxxxx \n\nVIEW A CLIP FROM THE FILM\n  \n \n  \n  \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ March 3-6\, watch the film The Death of Zygielbojm on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, March 5 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of guests.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \n \nDr. Jud Newborn (left) was the Founding Historian of New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust\, and co-author of the acclaimed Sophie Scholl and the White Rose. A dramatic multimedia lecturer\, he has spoken throughout North America\, at the UN and worldwide. He was awarded his PhD with Distinction by the University of Chicago following three years of adventurous fieldwork as a Fulbright and Woodrow Wilson National Fellow\, including hunting down former SS officers and working undercover during communist martial law in Poland. He was honored with the Anne Frank Center’s prestigious “Spirit of Anne Frank Award” and is the Emmy Award-winning Producer of Special Programs for Long Island’s Cinema Arts Centre. \n \nDr. Arthur Zygielbaum (right) is the grandson of Szmul Artur Zygielbojm. He is an Emeritus Research Associate Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln School of Natural Resources. Previously he worked at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in a variety of capacities. He was on the science and tracking teams of many space missions\, including Voyager\, Viking and Helios\, and helped test Einstein’s theory of general relativity. He holds a BS in Physics from UCLA\, an MS in Electrical Engineering-Computers from USC and a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His hobbies include amateur radio and photography. \nSharon Douglas (moderator) is the CEO of the Anne Frank Center USA and is a philanthropist\, business advisor\, and educator. In 1999\, she was a member of the delegation to the United Nations for the Anne Frank Declaration of Peace and has for the past two decades represented the Anne Frank Center at numerous events in England and the Netherlands. A long-standing board member of the Anne Frank Center\, Sharon also serves as the Secretary of the Board\, and\, with her husband Preston\, was the 2016 co-winner of the Spirit of Anne Frank Distinguished Advocates Award. She holds a BA in Education\, with graduate study at Queens College and St. John’s University. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed. \nxxxxx \nThank you to event sponsors Mimi and Marvin Sandler. \nxxxxx \nThis program is co-presented with the Anne Frank Center USA. \n \nxxxxx
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/zygielboim/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:The Freedom Line
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nCompared to Casablanca by The Washington Post\, this is a page–turning story of a group of resistance workers who rescued downed Allied fighter pilots and spirited them through France and into safety in Spain during World War II.  \n \nAs war raged against Hitler’s Germany\, an increasing number of Allied fliers were shot down on missions against Nazi targets in occupied Europe. Many fliers parachuted safely behind enemy lines only to find themselves stranded and hunted down by the Gestapo. The Freedom Line traces the thrilling and true story of Robert Grimes\, a 20-year-old American B–17 pilot whose plane was shot down over Belgium on Oct. 20\, 1943. Wounded\, disoriented\, and scared\, he was rescued by operatives of the Comet Line\, a group of tenacious young women and men from Belgium\, France\, and Spain who joined forces to rescue the Allied aircrews and take them to safety. Armed with guile and spirit\, the selfless civilian fighters of the Comet Line risked their lives to create this underground railroad\, and saved hundreds of Allied airmen. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nxxxxx \nPeter Eisner is an award-winning foreign correspondent and author. His book The Pope’s Last Crusade: How an American Jesuit Helped Pope Pius XI’s Campaign to Stop Hitler was a History Book Club and Catholic Book Club monthly selection. He has served as editor and reporter at The Washington Post\, Newsday and The Associated Press. He is a contributing editor to the online investigative publication\, Spytalk. He is also co-host of the podcast\, Unconventional Threat. His book MacArthur’s Spies is an account of guerrillas and the American underground in Japanese-occupied Manila. His 2004 book\, The Freedom Line\, which won the Christopher Award\, is the story of young resistance workers in occupied Europe who rescued downed Allied fighter pilots during World War II. \n \nMusha Salinas Eisner is an interpreter and translator and has worked for the State of Maryland Court system for 20 years. Born in Argentina\, she earned a degree in Latin American literature at the University of Buenos Aires and holds a master’s degree in linguistics from Florida International University. She has been a university instructor and high school teacher in Argentina and the United States and was a long-time translator for the Washington Post Writers Group. She has traveled extensively in Europe and Latin America\, speaking English\, Spanish\, Portuguese\, and French. She lives in Bethesda\, Maryland. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/the-freedom-line/
CATEGORIES:Book Talk
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SUMMARY:The Waldheim Waltz
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nRuth Beckermann‘s film The Waldheim Waltz is about truth\, lies and how a dishonest man can rise to power. The film documents the process of uncovering former UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim’s wartime past. It shows the swift succession of new allegations by the World Jewish Congress during his Austrian presidential campaign\, the denial by the Austrian political class\, the outbreak of anti-Semitism and patriotism\, which finally led to his election. Created from international archive material and what Beckermann shot at the time\, the film shows that history repeats itself time and time again. Winner of the Berlin International Film Festival. \n \nxxxxx \nSEE THE TRAILER\nxxxxx \n \n  \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ February 17-20\, watch Ruth Beckermann‘s film The Waldheim Waltz on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, February 19 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nxxxxx \nFilmmaker Ruth Beckermann (left) was born and raised in Vienna. In 1978 she co-founded the distribution company filmladen in which she was active for seven years. Since 1985 she has worked as a writer and filmmaker. Her film The Dreamed Ones (2016) was selected at many international festivals and won several awards. The Waldheim Waltz premiered at the Berlin Festival and won the award for best documentary. In 2019 Ruth conceived the multimedia-installation Joyful Joyce for the Salzburg Festival. Her film Mutzenbacher premiered at the Berlin Festival in 2022 and won the award for Best Film. The film was then shown at the New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center\, to great acclaim. \nDr. Shulamit Reinharz (moderator\, at 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). Her book\, Hiding\, about her father’s Holocaust experience\, is forthcoming. In 2017\, she retired from Brandeis and became Professor Emerita. She is a sought after speaker and interviewer and has participated in several Sunday programs of the Sousa Mendes Foundation. \nValentin Hasler\, from Vienna\, is an intern with the Sousa Mendes Foundation under the auspices of the Austrian Service Abroad program allowing young Austrians to work in Holocaust education in place of their military service. Austrian Service Abroad was founded in 1992 by Andreas Maislinger to combat antisemitism worldwide and is represented in 80+ countries and 130 Jewish or Holocaust-related organizations. After his time working in Holocaust education he will study law at the University of Vienna.  He has appeared in Ruth Beckermann‘s most recent film\, Mutzenbacher. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/the-waldheim-waltz/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:In the Garden of the Righteous
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nRichard Hurowitz‘s new book In the Garden of the Righteous from HarperCollins chronicles the heroes and heroines who not only rescued Jews from the Holocaust but also\, as Golda Meir once said\, “saved hope and faith in the human spirit.” \n \nxxxxx \n \nAUTOGRAPHED AND INSCRIBED BOOKS AVAILABLE! \n$32 plus shipping/handling to US addresses ($4). \nOrder your copy today for yourself or a loved one! \nWe will contact you for your preferred inscription after you place your order. \n\n\nxxxxx \nxxxxx \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nxxxxx \nRichard Hurowitz is a writer\, investor\, and the publisher of The Octavian Report\, the quarterly magazine of ideas. His article on Aristides de Sousa Mendes appeared in The New York Times\, and his book In the Garden of the Righteous has just been published by HarperCollins. He serves on the governing board of the Yale University Art Gallery and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was a co-founder of the Renew Democracy Initiative. He received his BA in history from Yale University\, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He earned a JD from Columbia University School of Law\, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and the editor-in-chief of the Columbia/VLA Journal of Law & the Arts.  He is a member of the New York State Bar Association. \nLeslie Camhi’s first-person essays on art\, photography\, design\, books\, Jewish culture\, and women’s lives\, including her own life and travels\, appear regularly in The New York Times\, Vogue\, Tablet and many other publications. A frequent contributor to art museum catalogs\, she also holds a doctorate in Comparative Literature from Yale University\, and her scholarly work includes essays on kleptomania and 19th-century French medical photography. Her first translation\, from the French\, of Violaine Huisman’s debut novel\, The Book of Mother (Scribner) was a New York Times Notable Book of 2021\, long-listed for the International Booker Prize\, and a finalist for the French-American Foundation’s Translation Prize. She is currently at work on a memoir. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed. We are still offering signed/inscribed books. Order one for yourself or a loved one!
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/in-the-garden-of-the-righteous/
CATEGORIES:Book Talk
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SUMMARY:Marcel Marceau and the French Resistance
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nThe great French mime Marcel Marceau was the son of a kosher butcher who was murdered at Auschwitz. Following his father’s deportation\, Marcel joined the French Resistance\, assisting his cousin Georges Loinger in escorting Jewish children from Nazi-occupied France to neutral Switzerland. He used his artistry and charisma to engage with the children and keep them quiet during their long and perilous trek to freedom. Later he gave his first major performance to 3000 US troops after the liberation of Paris in August 1944. \n \nxxxxx \nWATCH THE TRAILER\n  \n \n  \nTHE SCHEDULE\nxxxxx \n⇒ February 3-6\, watch Maurizius Staerkle Drux‘s film The Art of Silence on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, February 5 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\n  \nFilmmaker Maurizius Staerkle Drux was born in Cologne\, Germany and grew up in Zurich\, Switzerland. Influenced by musical instruments and sign language\, he moves between the worlds of language and images\, which come together in film. Since graduating he has worked as a documentary filmmaker and sound designer. His works have won several international prizes including the Jury Award of the International Film Festival of Art in Montreal\, the Swiss “Upcoming Talent Award” and the prestigious Goethe Prize in Germany. He shares his passion for film and sound as a lecturer at the Zurich University of the Arts and is a member of the European Film Academy. \n \nJoanne D. Gilbert writes about rescue and resistance during the Holocaust. A sought-after presenter\, she is the author of 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) and is currently at work on her forthcoming book\, Women of Valor: German\, French & Dutch Resisters to the Third Reich. She is a consultant with the Paris walking tour company\, Sight-Seekers Delight\, for their popular French Resistance Walking Tours of Paris and Le Chambon sur Lignon. \nDaniel Loinger is a retired engineer who lives in Paris and he is featured in the film The Art of Silence about Marcel Marceau. He is a younger cousin of Marceau\, and was one of the children who were smuggled into Switzerland to escape Nazi-occupied France. His late father Georges Loinger\, the central figure in the smuggling operation\, died in 2018 at age 108. \nxxx \n\nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/marcel-marceau/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:A Voice Among the Silent -- The Legacy of James G. McDonald
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nA Voice Among the Silent is the first film to shine a light on James G. McDonald’s efforts to warn the US government of Hitler’s plan for the Jews. The son of Catholic immigrants\, he was one of the first Americans to meet face-to-face with Hitler in 1933. This frightening encounter changed his life and plunged him into the effort to rescue Jews. Later\, he was appointed as the first US Ambassador to Israel\, and in this role he helped shape US policy and aid towards Israel for generations to come. \n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ January 27-30\, watch the film A Voice Among the Silent on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, January 29 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of guests.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nSEE THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \nDr. Rafael Medoff is the founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies and the author of more than 20 books about the Holocaust\, Zionism\, and American Jewish history. Dr. Medoff has taught Jewish history at Ohio State University\, Purchase College of the State University of New York\, and (currently) Yeshiva University. He is a Fellow of the Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research at Bar-Ilan University. His latest book is America and the Holocaust: A Documentary History (Jewish Publication Society & University of Nebraska Press). \nShuli Eshel is a producer-director of documentaries dealing with the arts\, politics\, social and historical matters. Among her documentaries\, in addition to A Voice Among the Silent: The Legacy of James G. McDonald\, are To be a Woman Soldier\, Women’s Peace in the Middle East\, Maxwell Street: A Living Memory\, The Jewish Experience in Chicago and Jewish Women in American Sport. She holds a B.A. in English & American Literature and Linguistics from Tel Aviv University and an MFA degree in film and television from Hornsey College of Art\, London\, England. \n\n\n\nH. Vail Barrett is the grandson of James G. McDonald. Vail graduated from Westminster College in 1973. He was an Art Major and later worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and studied Studio Art in New York City. His pastel landscapes were shown at the Christina Gallery on Martha’s Vineyard for 14 years. His work is also in corporate collections. His cartoon illustrations and his sister’s writing were used in the 2018 book Three Sheets to the Wind published by Lions Press. Vail is passionate about his grandfather’s legacy and has given lectures at several libraries\, churches\, and Jewish Community Centers in Connecticut.\nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed. \n 
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/james-mcdonald/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Symphony of Courage
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nSymphony of Courage from filmmaker Beth Mendelson shines a light on Portugal as a safe haven once again for fleeing refugees. It tells the story of the evacuation of the students of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM) following the Taliban takeover\, after music was outlawed. ANIM’s director Dr. Ahmad Sarmast worked with an international team of philanthropists\, politicians\, and musicians to facilitate their rescue to Lisbon — their new home\, where they can play music once again in a free and open society. \n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ January 20-23\, watch Beth Mendelson‘s film Symphony of Courage on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, January 22 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of guests. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \nDr. Ahmad Sarmast is founder and director of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM). He fled his country in the 1990’s\, when music was forbidden under Taliban rule. Following the nation’s liberation from Taliban rule in 2001\, Sarmast returned to Kabul to establish ANIM\, providing music education to students regardless of gender\, ethnicity\, or social backgrounds. When the Taliban retook power in August of 2021\, Sarmast worked with an international coalition to rescue the 273 members of the school and re-establish it in Lisbon\, Portugal. The target of three assassination attempts\, Dr. Sarmast was grievously injured in a suicide bombing at a peace concert of an ANIM ensemble in Kabul in 2014. \nBeth Mendelson (left) is the Senior Executive Producer of Special Programming and Documentaries at Voice of America. Previously\, she was the Chief of the Afghanistan Service for six years\, overseeing television\, radio\, and web programming. She supervised a staff of 100 people between Washington\, D.C. and Afghanistan. Beth Mendelson’s communication career spans 30 years across the U.S. Government. She has been an Executive Producer for major American and European networks\, including PBS\, CNN\, ITN\, ARD\, and MSNBC. Her work producing documentaries and television specials has taken her to Russia\, China\, France\, England\, and numerous other countries. \n \nJeannette V. (“Cookie”) Fischer (moderator\, right) has lived and worked globally as a teacher\, trainer\, coach\, and consultant working on multilingual and transdisciplinary projects.  Born in Peru of European parents\, she has lived and worked in the US\, Asia\, Europe\, Mexico\, South America\, and Israel. Cookie’s mother\, Ada van den Bergh Fischer\, escaped from Bayonne on June 22\, 1940 on a sardine schooner with a visa issued by Aristides de Sousa Mendes. Cookie has been involved with our Foundation since 2017 retracing her mother’s escape on the “Journey to the Road to Freedom\,” a trip that follows the footsteps of Aristides de Sousa Mendes and the refugees he saved. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/symphony-of-courage/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Exodus -- The Ship that Launched a Nation
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nThe story of the Exodus\, the ship that carried 4\,500 Jewish refugees from Europe to Palestine in 1947\, encapsulates the essence of Israel’s creation — a journey\, an exodus — from the hellish depths of the Holocaust to the exhilarating heights of independence and nationhood. \n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ January 13-16\, watch Uri Borreda‘s film Exodus – The True Story on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, January 15 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of guests. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \nMichael Stolowitzky (right) was a passenger on the Exodus voyage. He was rescued by his Polish nanny who fulfilled a promise to Michael’s mother to bring him to Palestine. Together the boy and his nanny experienced the Exodus saga\, and she eventually settled with him in Israel and raised him as her son.  She was declared a Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem\, and their story is told in the bestselling book\, Gertruda’s Oath — A Child\, A Promise\, and a Heroic Escape During World War II. He is retired from American Express and divides his time between the United States and Israel. \nIsraeli screenwriter\, director\, and producer Uri Borreda (left) has been making documentary films since 1987. These include Born to Fly\, Exodus – The True Story (created for Israel’s Channel 1)\, The History of the Land of Israel\, and Box for Life. His films have been shown in film festivals worldwide and won several awards. Box for Life won Best Feature Documentary in Ramsgate film festival UK 2019\, and Best documentary feature theme award in Overcome film festival USA 2019. He is a member of the Israeli Directors Guild and of the Israeli Academy of Film and Television. \n \nDr. Zvi Hatkevitz (right) was in his mother’s womb when his parents\, survivors of the Holocaust\, sailed on the illegal immigration ship Exodus and fought the British to be allowed to enter Palestine. 71 years later\, he successfully persuaded the Israeli government to award medals to those immigrants for their contribution to Israel’s establishment. He was born in the Sengwarden detention camp in Germany after his parents were deported by the British government from Haifa to Hamburg. He has a Ph.D. in chemistry and fought in the Six Day War and the Yom Kippur War. \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\nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed. \nxxxxxRe
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/exodus-the-true-story/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:A Celebration of Life! The Rescue Mission of Mr. & Mrs. Kraus
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nHeartwarming and uplifting! In the spring of 1939\, Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus\, a Jewish couple from Philadelphia\, embarked on a risky and unlikely mission. Traveling into the heart of Nazi Germany\, they rescued 50 Jewish children from Vienna and brought them to the United States. \n \n xxxxx \nTickets are available at three levels. This event is our year-end fundraiser\, and we appreciate your support! See details below.  \nIs cost an issue?  We have a generous benefactor for this program who is offering sponsored tickets to those who need it.  See details below.  \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ December 2-5\, watch Steven Pressman‘s film 50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. & Mrs. Kraus on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, December 4 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of guests.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nSEE THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nMEET THE MASTER OF CEREMONIES\nxxxxx \nSamantha Massell 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\nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nxxxxx\nFilmmaker Steven Pressman\, left\, worked as a journalist for many years\, at a variety of publications. He directed and produced 50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus\, which premiered on HBO in 2013 and received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Historical Programming. His next film\, Holy Silence\, had its broadcast premiere on PBS in 2020 and has also been seen at numerous film festivals and other venues throughout the United States. His latest film\, The Levys of Monticello\, has been screening at film festivals beginning in early 2022. In addition to his work as a filmmaker\, Steve is the author of 50 Children: One Ordinary American Couple’s Extraordinary Rescue Mission into the Heart of Nazi Germany (HarperCollins\, 2014). \n \nPaul Beller\, right\, was born in Vienna\, Austria in 1931 and was one of the 50 children rescued by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus. He arrived in New York Harbor on June 3\, 1939. When Paul arrived in the United States\, he and the other children attended summer camp. After that summer\, he lived with the Amram family in Feasterville\, Pennsylvania. Paul received his B.A. in Political Science from City College of New York. He received his M.B.A. from New York University and then served in the Army. Paul and Glenda Beller have been married for 66 years. They have three children\, seven grandchildren\, and seven great-grandchildren. Paul had a career of 40 years with the Federal Government where he specialized in Medicare Beneficiary Services. \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. \nRegistration for this program is closed. \nxxxx
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/celebration/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Meyer Weisgal -- A Forgotten Zionist Visionary
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nMeyer Weisgal was an American Zionist visionary who focused a spotlight on the urgent need to rescue the imperiled Jews of Europe in the 1930s. Through his determined\, creative and often ingenious endeavors — including his production of a thick magazine celebrating the birth of the Hebrew University\, his spectacular pageants The Romance of a People and The Eternal Road at Chicago’s 1933 World’s Fair and on Broadway\, respectively\, and his conceptualization and management of the popular Jewish Palestine Pavilion at New York’s 1939 World’s Fair — Weisgal dedicated his life to the survival and flourishing of the Jewish people. \n \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nxxxxx \n \nJonathan Amir\, left\, is a documentary filmmaker and video editor based in Tel Aviv\, Israel. He is the great-grandson of Meyer Weisgal and with his brother Noam he is currently working on a feature-length animated documentary film about Weisgal’s life. They were inspired by their grandmother who was Weisgal’s daughter and who co-wrote his autobiography\, So Far\, which is partly the basis for the movie. The movie will focus on Weisgal’s career and his relationship with his idol\, mentor and friend\, Chaim Weizmann\, and how together they promoted the creation of the state of Israel. \nDr. Max Samson\, right\, is an adjunct professor in the Department of Geography at DePaul University. Originally from the United Kingdom\, his research interests center on the construction and contestation of religious identities across a range of spaces on either side of the Atlantic\, from religious schools to city streets. An author of over a dozen peer-reviewed journal articles\, one portion of his scholarship pertains to Meyer Weisgal’s efforts to raise wider awareness of antisemitism in the 1930s\, to improve Jews’ social standing in American society\, and to build support for the creation of a future Jewish state. He chairs the Geography of Religion and Belief Systems international specialty research group of the American Association of Geographers\, and is an Associate Editor of the Jewish Journal of Education. \n \nDavid Matlow\, left\, is a lawyer at Goodmans LLP in Toronto and the owner of the world’s largest collection of Theodor Herzl memorabilia. After receiving a thick magazine published by Meyer Weisgal on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Herzl’s death in 1929\, Matlow began to research Weisgal’s work\, and his collection now includes artifacts from Weisgal’s initiatives that David will share for the first time. His website is: www.herzlcollection.com \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed. \n 
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/meyer-weisgal/
CATEGORIES:Discussion
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SUMMARY:Sister Rose's Passion
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nA celebration of the extraordinary life and work of Sister Rose Thering and her successful quest to rid Catholic School education of anti-Semitism. Rose was a young nun in the Dominican order\, determined to stop the Catholic Church from teaching hate\, and prove that the doctrine blaming Jews for the death of Jesus was irreconcilable with her notion of a loving God. Rose’s efforts paved the way for the historic Vatican II Council and the papal encyclical that reformed the Church’s teachings about Jews. She later became a renowned Holocaust educator and received the Courage to Care award from the Anti-Defamation League. \n \nxxxxx \nSEE AN INTERVIEW WITH THE FILMMAKER\n\n\nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ November 11-14\, watch Oren Jacoby‘s Oscar-nominated film Sister Rose’s Passion on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, November 13 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nxxxxx \n \nBarbara Wind\, a scholar of Jewish-Christian and Holocaust Studies\, served as Executive Director of the Holocaust Council of Greater MetroWest from 2000-2018. She is currently completing several non-fiction books\, including Scaling the Mountain\, a memoir-biography of Sister Rose Thering. A writer\, journalist\, playwright and poet\, her publications include: The Myth of Jewish Non-Resistance During the Holocaust\, Seton Hall University\, 2001; Auf Asch Gehen\, EOS Verlag 2005; articles in The New York Times\, The Times of Israel\, The Jewish Link\, The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)\, literary publications\, and poetry anthologies. She expects to soon publish The Yoke of Night\, a poetic memoir of the Holocaust written in 1944 by Jurek Zakrzewski\, for whom she is the literary executor. \nAfter serving 28 years as National Director and a total of fifty years with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL)\, Abraham H. Foxman\, left\, 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. \n \nOren Jacoby\, right\, is an Oscar-nominated filmmaker. His latest film\, On Broadway (2021)\, tells the story of the rebirth of the Broadway Theater and New York City. He is currently directing a documentary about the fossil fuel industry and climate change. Sister Rose’s Passion was a winner of Best Documentary Short Film at the Tribeca Film Festival and nominated for an Oscar. Shadowman (Amazon Prime) was the audience award runner-up at the Tribeca Film Festival. His theatrical adaptation of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man won the Joseph Jefferson Award for best new play adaptation. He is the Executive Producer of Julia and Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down. \n \nDr. Jud Newborn\, left\, who will host and moderate the program\, served as the Founding Historian of the Museum of Jewish Heritage. He is the author of the acclaimed Sophie Scholl and the White Rose\, and he has presented his multimedia lecture programs at the United Nations and worldwide. He was awarded his PhD with Distinction by the University of Chicago following three years of fieldwork in Europe as a Fulbright and Woodrow Wilson National Fellow\, including hunting down former SS officers and working undercover for Poland’s “Solidarity” freedom movement. He was honored with the Anne Frank Center’s prestigious “Spirit of Anne Frank Award” and is the Emmy Award winning Producer of Special Celebrity Programs for Long Island\, NY’s Cinema Arts Centre. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/sister-roses-passion/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Heroes of the St. Louis
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nMany people are familiar with the tragic story of the St. Louis ship\, whose nearly 1000 Jewish passengers were turned back to Europe after they were refused entry by Cuba\, Canada\, and the United States.  But few are aware of the bravery of the ship’s captain\, Gustav Schroeder\, who was declared a Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem\, and of Morris Troper and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Thanks to their strenuous efforts\, the passengers were permitted to disembark in the United Kingdom\, Belgium\, the Netherlands\, and France\, rather than returning to Nazi Germany. As a result\, the passengers had a chance of surviving the ordeal\, and many hundreds of them did. Meet Dr. Hans Fisher\, who was one of these survivors\, and Scott Miller\, who is a leading world expert on this story. \n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ November 4-7\, watch the film When Canada Said No: The Abandoned Jews of the MS St. Louis on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, November 6 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our panel of guests.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \nDr. Hans Fisher\, left\, is a survivor of the St. Louis ship. He is a Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University in the Department of Nutritional Sciences. Born in Breslau\, Germany\, he ended up in France after the ship returned to Europe. In 1940 he made it to Cuba where he stayed until 1941 when he was finally able to enter the United States. He earned a Ph.D in Nutritional Biochemistry from the University of Illinois. With his wife Ruth he translated Mendel Rosenbusch — Tales for Jewish Children originally written in German by Ilse Weber. Dr. Fisher has been a Visiting Scientist at Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and has lectured at Harvard Medical School. The Fishers have three children and nine grandchildren. \nScott Miller\, right\, was a founding staff member at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum\, where he worked for 30 years. He is a co-author of Refuge Denied – The St. Louis Passengers and the Holocaust and other publications. In 2001\, he was appointed the Director of the Museum’s Benjamin and Vladka Meed Registry of Holocaust Survivors. In 2006\, he became Director of Curatorial Affairs\, overseeing the Museum’s archival\, artifact\, photo\, film\, music and oral history collections. Currently he is a consulting curator for the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust’s new core exhibition “The Holocaust: What Hate Can Do\,” and is guest curator for the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education’s new exhibition “Human Rights After the Holocaust.” \n \nDr. Jud Newborn\, left\, who will host and moderate the program\, served as the Founding Historian of the Museum of Jewish Heritage. He is the author of the acclaimed Sophie Scholl and the White Rose\, and he has presented his multimedia lecture programs at the United Nations and worldwide. He was awarded his PhD with Distinction by the University of Chicago following three years of fieldwork in Europe as a Fulbright and Woodrow Wilson National Fellow\, including hunting down former SS officers and working undercover for Poland’s “Solidarity” freedom movement. He was honored with the Anne Frank Center’s prestigious “Spirit of Anne Frank Award” and is the Emmy Award winning Producer of Special Celebrity Programs for Long Island\, NY’s Cinema Arts Centre. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed. \n\n 
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/heroes-of-the-st-louis/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:No Place on Earth
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nAn extraordinary story! In 1942\, 38 men\, women and children slid down a cold\, muddy hole in the ground\, seeking refuge from the war above in a pitch-black underground world where no human had gone before. These five Ukrainian Jewish families created their own society where young men bravely ventured into the harrowing night to collect food\, supplies and chop firewood. The girls and women never left\, surviving underground longer than anyone in recorded history. Held together by an iron-willed matriarch\, after 511 days\, the cave dwellers\, ages 2 to 76\, emerged at war’s end in tattered clothes\, blinded by a sun some children forgot existed. Despite all odds\, they had survived.  \nThe remarkable true story of No Place on Earth starts out as a mystery. While exploring some of the longest caves in the world in southwestern Ukraine in the 1990s\, American caver Chris Nicola stumbled upon unusual objects… a shoe a comb\, some buttons\, a key. Was the vague rumor true\, that some Jews had hidden in this cave during WWII and if so\, had any survived to tell their tale? 67 years later\, Chris leads four of the survivors\, and their family members\, back to Ukraine to say thank you to the cave. \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ October 28-31\, watch Janet Tobias‘s film No Place on Earth on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, October 30 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the panel discussion.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nSEE THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \n \nErin Grunstein Halpern lives in Montreal with her husband and four children. She studied at McGill University and subsequently completed her Masters at the University of Montreal\, where she trained to be a pediatric physical therapist\, specializing in neurodevelopment. In her spare time\, she developed a love for being creative in the kitchen and trained to be a food photographer. Erin shares her recipes on her instagram page @erin.eats.mtl\, where she focusses on simple and healthy(ish) recipes for the busy family. Erin is the granddaughter of four Holocaust survivors and grew up being both mesmerized and horrified by their stories. She was fortunate to be able to travel with her grandfather\, Saul Stermer\, to Ukraine for the filming of No Place on Earth. \nChris Nicola is the cave explorer who uncovered the evidence that Jewish families had inhabited the caves of Ukraine during World War II. A New York law enforcement officer and union organizer\, he has been an amateur explorer since the 1970s. He founded the Priest’s Grotto Heritage Project\, a genocide awareness project in which the grandchildren of those who lived in Priest’s Grotto Cave during the Holocaust work hand-in-hand with the grandchildren of those who lived above the cave in building an exhibit to honor what those courageous families did so long ago\, and hopefully\, by keeping this story alive\, prevent such genocides as the Holocaust from ever happening again.  \nJanet Tobias is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker. She started her film and television career at CBS’ 60 Minutes as Diane Sawyer’s associate producer. She then moved to PBS where she created and executive produced the award-winning program Life 360. She made her theatrical debut in 2012 with No Place On Earth\, which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival and was released by Magnolia Pictures in the US and Senator in Europe and was nominated for a Writers Guild Award. Janet Tobias is also an adjunct assistant professor of Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and a research professor of Global Public Health at NYU. She was a member of the Drug Forum of the Institute of Medicine\, National Academy of Sciences from 2009 to 2015. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/no-place-on-earth/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221023
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SUMMARY:Disobedience: The Sousa Mendes Story
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK • 7 PM LISBON\nxxxxx \nPlease join us for a film-and-discussion program featuring the award-winning docudrama Disobedience: The Sousa Mendes Story by Joel Santoni and starring Bernard Le Coq as the Holocaust rescuer Aristides de Sousa Mendes.\n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\nxxxxx \n⇒ October 21-24 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\, October 23 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the presentation by our panel of experts. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nxxxxx \nSilvério de Sousa Mendes is the great-grandson of Aristides de Sousa Mendes and President of the General Council of the Fundação Aristides de Sousa Mendes (Portugal). He was the Sousa Mendes family representative who officially received the Certificate of Honor from the President of Portugal on the occasion of the induction of Aristides de Sousa Mendes into the National Pantheon. He holds a Master’s Degree and MBA from Coimbra University. He works as Chief Business Officer of Body Interact\, a Portuguese healthcare education company with a subsidiary in the United States and 55 business partners worldwide that allows current and future healthcare professionals to enhance their clinical reasoning and decision-making skills. Silvério was elected to the Corporate Roundtable Executive Committee of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. \n \nOlivia Mattis is President of the Sousa Mendes Foundation. She is an award-winning musicologist and author with a Ph.D. from Stanford University and a B.A. from Yale University. Twelve members of her paternal family were rescued by Aristides de Sousa Mendes as they escaped from Belgium in 1940. She delivered Keynote addresses at the Yom Hashoah commemorations of the cities of Philadelphia and Rochester and the Jewish community of Scotland. She has taught musicology at the Eastman School of Music and elsewhere. She is a Contributing Editor of the Jewish genealogy journal Avotaynu Online and the author of “Sousa Mendes’s List — The Search for Survivors.” \nCraig Dershowitz is the Chief Executive Officer of Artists 4 Israel whose Righteous Murals Project features Aristides de Sousa Mendes among other rescuers. He has worked with over 2000 artists representing more than 32 countries using art as a tool for social change. For his work\, he was presented the Defender of Israel award\, been honored by Prime Minister Netanyahu in a public ceremony\, been named 36 under 36 and one of the 100 most influential Jewish minds. Most important to Craig is that he received the Key to the City of Sderot for his work there during wartime. In the private sector\, Mr. Dershowitz worked at Morgan Stanley and wrote for Vice and similar publications. He sold an internationally distributed graffiti magazine to fund the first year of Artists 4 Israel’s activity. \n \nMariana Abrantes\, who will moderate the panel\, is the Board Treasurer of the Sousa Mendes Foundation. Coming from a village in central Portugal\, she studied Economics at UC-Berkeley and earned an MA from Princeton University. After training and working in Chase Manhattan Bank\, she returned to Portugal\, where she worked at the European Investment Bank. She also served in the Portuguese government’s Ministries of Transport and Health\, and on the Boards of international investment funds and the Fulbright Commission Portugal. She is a dual Portuguese-US citizen. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/disobedience-2/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Secret Lives: Hidden Children and Their Rescuers During World War II
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nDuring the Second World War\, some tens of thousands of Jewish children were saved from almost certain death by non-Jewish neighbors\, friends\, or even — in many cases — total strangers. These rescuers\, men and women of uncommon decency\, did everything from bringing Jewish children into their families under false identities to securing hiding places in closets\, attics\, or hastily-dug bunkers. What happened between these children\, their parents\, and their rescuers is the focus of Aviva Slesin‘s groundbreaking film\, Secret Lives. \n\n\n\n \nxxxxx \nSEE THE TRAILER\nxxxxx \n \n  \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ September 30-October 3\, watch Aviva Slesin‘s film Secret Lives on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, October 2 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of guests.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \nPeter Hellman is a journalist and author of seven books\, including Courage was Stronger than Fear\, which profiles Christian and Muslim rescuers of Jews from countries under Nazi thrall. Originally published in 1980 as Avenue of the Righteous\, after the tree-lined path at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem that honors rescuers\, the book has gone through multiple American editions as well as British\, Italian\, Dutch\, Polish\, and Hebrew editions. The book includes an early description in English of the heroism of Aristides de Sousa Mendes\, Portuguese Consul in Bordeaux in 1940. Hellman also wrote the text for The Auschwitz Album\, reproducing the only known photographs showing newly arriving Jewish deportees at the killing camp in the spring of 1944. He lives in New York. \nAviva Slesin\, right\, is an Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker. Her films include The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table\, which won the Oscar for best documentary\, Voices in Celebration\, about the National Gallery of Art\, Directed by William Wyler\, about the Hollywood director\, and Secret Lives: Hidden Children and Their Rescuers During World War II\, which the New York Times named as one of the ten best documentaries of 2003. Her films were showcased at the Sundance Film Festival. From 2007-18\, Ms. Slesin was on faculty at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts\, where she currently teaches a Master Class in documentary filmmaking. Ms. Slesin is a member of both the Directors Guild of America and The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. \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 \nRegistration for this program is closed.  \n 
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/secret-lives/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:The U.S. and the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:4 PM LOS ANGELES • 7 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nThe U.S. and the Holocaust is a three-part\, six-hour PBS series directed by Ken Burns\, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein\, that examines America’s response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the twentieth century. Americans consider themselves a “nation of immigrants\,” but as the catastrophe of the Holocaust unfolded in Europe\, the United States proved unwilling to open its doors to more than a fraction of the hundreds of thousands of desperate people seeking refuge. Through riveting firsthand testimony of witnesses and survivors who as children endured persecution\, violence and flight as their families tried to escape Hitler\, this series delves deeply into the tragic human consequences of public indifference\, bureaucratic red tape and restrictive quota laws in America. Did the nation fail to live up to its ideals? This is a history to be reckoned with. \n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ September 18\, 19\, 20\, watch the film The U.S. and the Holocaust on your local PBS station\, or record the episodes for later viewing (3 episodes\, 2 hours each over three nights). \n⇒ Thursday\, September 22 at 7:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of guests.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \nDr. Rafael Medoff (right) is the founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies and the author of more than 20 books about the Holocaust\, Zionism\, and American Jewish history. Dr. Medoff has taught Jewish history at Ohio State University\, Purchase College of the State University of New York\, and (currently) Yeshiva University. He is a Fellow of the Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research at Bar-Ilan University. His latest book is America and the Holocaust: A Documentary History (Jewish Publication Society & University of Nebraska Press). \nMarty Ostrow (left) is a producer\, writer and director for public\, commercial and cable television. His award-winning films include America and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference\, for the PBS series The American Experience. His many films about science for NOVA\, PBS and the Discovery Channel include Race to Save the Planet\, the first large-scale PBS effort to bring environmental concerns to national consciousness and Renewal\, the first documentary to tell the stories of America’s growing religious-environmental movement. In addition\, his Public Television films about the arts have earned him three Emmy Awards. Marty’s films have been seen in festivals around the world. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed. 
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/the-u-s-and-the-holocaust/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:The Vatican and the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nMany people are aware of the failure of Pope Pius XII to speak out against Nazi Germany’s persecution of the Jews during the Holocaust. But few people know that his predecessor\, Pope Pius XI\, had prepared an address to the world’s Catholics on this very topic in collaboration with an American Jesuit priest and human rights activist\, John LaFarge Jr. But Pope Pius XI suddenly died the night before the scheduled speech\, and the existence of the planned Encyclical was then suppressed by the Vatican. A fascinating and tragic story of “What if?” \n \n xxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ September 16-19\, watch Steven Pressman‘s film Holy Silence on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, September 18 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of guests.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nSEE THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \nFilmmaker Steven Pressman\, right\, worked as a journalist for many years\, at a variety of publications. He directed and produced 50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus\, which premiered on HBO in 2013 and received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Historical Programming. His next film\, Holy Silence\, had its broadcast premiere on PBS in 2020 and has also been seen at numerous film festivals and other venues throughout the United States. His latest film\, The Levys of Monticello\, has been screening at film festivals beginning in early 2022. In addition to his work as a filmmaker\, Steve is the author of 50 Children: One Ordinary American Couple’s Extraordinary Rescue Mission into the Heart of Nazi Germany (HarperCollins\, 2014). \nRev. Charles R. Gallagher\, S.J.\, left\, is Associate Professor of History at Boston College. His book Vatican Secret Diplomacy: Joseph P. Hurley and Pope Pius XII (New Haven: Yale UP\, 2008) won the American Catholic Historical Association’s John Gilmary Shea Prize. Nazis of Copley Square: The Forgotten Story of the Christian Front was published in September 2021 by Harvard University Press. He studies the intersection of intelligence and religion\, religion and right-wing movements\, the Holocaust\, and Vatican diplomacy. \nPeter Eisner\, right\, is an award-winning foreign correspondent and author. His book The Pope’s Last Crusade: How an American Jesuit Helped Pope Pius XI’s Campaign to Stop Hitler was a History Book Club and Catholic Book Club monthly selection. He has served as editor and reporter at The Washington Post\, Newsday and The Associated Press. He is a contributing editor to the online investigative publication\, Spytalk. He is also co-host of the podcast\, Unconventional Threat. His book MacArthur’s Spies is an account of guerrillas and the American underground in Japanese-occupied Manila. His 2004 book\, The Freedom Line\, which won the Christopher Award\, is the story of young resistance workers in occupied Europe who rescued downed Allied fighter pilots during World War II. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/pope/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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