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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.
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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/
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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.
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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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DTSTAMP:20260418T094813
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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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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221107
DTSTAMP:20260418T094813
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221030
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221031
DTSTAMP:20260418T094813
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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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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220911
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SUMMARY:Boatlift
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nOn the 21st anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11\, the Sousa Mendes Foundation pauses to remember the nearly 3\,000 Americans who lost their lives\, and also to acknowledge the inspiring bravery shown by first responders and everyday citizens on that tragic day. One of the most notable acts of valor was the maritime evacuation of Lower Manhattan – the largest water evacuation in American history – in which 500\,000 people were transported to safety by hundreds of vessels that answered a call from the U.S. Coast Guard to converge on New York Harbor to aid in the evacuation. This extraordinary rescue was memorialized in a short documentary film Boatlift\, narrated by Tom Hanks\, that tells the story of the largest sea evacuation since Dunkirk in June 1940. This short film will be sent to all of our subscribers on the morning of Sunday\, September 11\, 2022. Then tune in at 2 PM ET for a discussion of the two greatest boatlifts in history. \n \nxxxxx \nMEET OUR SPEAKERS\nxxxxx \n  \n \nJessica DuLong is a Brooklyn-based author\, journalist\, editor\, and book collaborator/coach. Her book Saved at the Seawall: Stories from the September 11 Boat Lift is the definitive history of the largest-ever maritime evacuation. Her book My River Chronicles: Rediscovering the Work that Built America; A Personal and Historical Journey traces the rise and fall of respect for hands-on work in the Hudson River. She has published with CNN.com\, Newsweek International\, Rolling Stone\, Psychology Today and The Daily Beast. Her media appearances include Spike Lee’s “NYC Epicenters 9/11→2021½\,” TODAY show\, CBS Sunday Morning\, USA Today\, History Channel\, C-Span\, The New York Times\, and the New Yorker. A USCG-licensed marine engineer\, DuLong served aboard 1931 NYC fireboat John J. Harvey for two decades\, 11 years as chief.  https://jessicadulong.com/ \n \nJoshua Levine is a barrister and author who has written seven best-selling histories and been nominated for two book awards. His subjects have ranged from life during the Blitz to the strategic deception mounted before D-Day to the Northern Ireland Troubles. He has written plays and written and presented documentaries for BBC Radio 4. He has appeared on many television programs\, and fronted Channel 4 documentaries about Dunkirk and Great War aviation. He lectures regularly in Britain and the United States and serves as in International Ambassador for the Royal Air Force Museum. He has worked as historical consultant on Christopher Nolan’s film\, Dunkirk. His book\, Dunkirk: The History behind the Major Motion Picture spent five weeks at the top of the Sunday Times bestseller list. \n \nDr. Jud Newborn\, who will perform a dramatic poetry reading and will moderate\, was the Founding Historian of New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage. He is the author of Sophie Scholl and the White Rose\, and he has lectured worldwide\, including at the United Nations. 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 awarded his PhD with Distinction by the University of Chicago. He received the Anne Frank Center’s prestigious “Spirit of Anne Frank Award” and has won an Emmy. \nxxxxx \nxxxxx \nNo need to register if you are already on our mailing list. \nTo sign up for our mailing list\, click here.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/boatlift/
CATEGORIES:Film Screening
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SUMMARY:From Swastika to Jim Crow -- Jewish Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges in the American South
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nThe film-and-discussion program tells the little known story of German Jewish professors who\, expelled from their homeland by the Nazis\, found new lives and careers at all-black colleges and universities in the segregated American South. While most of these pairings between Jewish refugees and black colleges began as marriages of convenience\, very often they blossomed into love matches that lasted a lifetime. \n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ August 26-29\, watch Joel Sucher‘s film From Swastika to Jim Crow on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, August 28 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 \nModerator Samuel G. Freedman\, left\, is an award-winning author\, New York Times columnist\, and professor at Columbia University. He is the author of nine acclaimed books\, and is currently at work on his tenth\, about Hubert Humphrey\, Civil Rights\, and the 1948 Democratic convention. 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. \nJames McWilliams\, right\, was born in segregated Birmingham\, Alabama and attended Talladega College from 1950-54. Among his professors and mentors were German Jewish refugee scholars as seen in the film From Swastika to Jim Crow. While attending the University of Wisconsin School of Law\, he became active in the Civil Rights Movement. He was a lawyer for the US Department of the Interior and for the Johnson Administration’s War on Poverty. Later he was Assistant General Counsel for the US Virgin Islands and worked for the Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. He served as General Counsel for the Opportunity Funding Corporation and was Assistant Director for Public Works for the DC Government. In 2019 he retired as a Mental Health Advocate for the city of San Francisco. \n \nPeter Rasmussen\, left\, was born in 1942 to an American father and a German Jewish refugee mother featured in the film From Swastika to Jim Crow. He grew up in Alabama on the campus of Talladega College\, a historically Black college where both of his parents were on the faculty. Peter attended Talladega College’s interracial elementary school. He received his MA in mathematics education from the University of Illinois\, where he worked developing math curricula. In 1969 Peter moved to Berkeley\, taught at Berkeley High School\, and formed a math publishing company together with his youngest brother. After retiring in 1995\, Peter and his wife Wei Zhang spent 25 years collecting and researching traditional Chinese puzzles. Their work was published in two volumes in Beijing in 2021. \nFilmmaker Joel Sucher\, right\, was born in a German DP camp after the war\, a fact that profoundly impacted his future career choices. Deeply concerned about social justice he founded Pacific Street Films in 1969 — along with Steven Fischler — and since that time has produced\, directed and written more than one hundred documentary films on a wide variety of historical\, cultural and political themes. His long career has brought him into contact with many filmmaking luminaries such as Martin Scorsese\, Leo Hurwitz\, Amos Vogel and Willard Van Dyke. Sucher and Fischler were awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in 1978 (at the time\, the youngest filmmakers to be given the honor). Mr. Sucher has also written for a number of platforms including American Banker\, In These Times\, Huffpo and Observer and is currently putting together a book of pictures inherited from his father. Titled My Father’s Leica\, it documents his parents’ post concentration camp experiences in Germany and Brooklyn. \nE. Ethelbert Miller\, left\, is a writer and literary activist. He is the author of two memoirs and several books of poetry including The Collected Poems of E. Ethelbert Miller. He hosts the WPFW morning radio show On the Margin with E. Ethelbert Miller and hosts and produces The Scholars on UDC-TV which received a 2020 Telly Award. Miller was awarded the 2019 Literary Award for poetry by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association for his book If God Invented Baseball. Most recently\, he received a grant from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and a congressional award from Congressman Jamie Raskin in recognition of his literary activism. Miller’s latest book is How I Found Love Behind the Catcher’s Mask (City Point Press). \nxxxxx \nTickets are by donation of any amount ($18 suggested minimum). All contributions are 100% tax-deductible.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/from-swastika-to-jim-crow/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Safe Haven in the Philippines
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nIn the 1930s\, when nations of the world were closing their doors to refugee Jews fleeing the growing horror of Hitler’s Germany\, one small island nation in the Pacific\, the Philippines\, chose to do what others would not — save those lives. This rescue\, orchestrated and empowered through President Manuel Quezon\, gave the refugees a new welcoming homeland as the Filipino people opened their hearts and accepted them within the fabric of Philippine society. Today a monument to this rescue action stands in Rishon Le Zion\, Israel. \n \n  \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ August 19-22\, watch Noel Izon‘s film An Open Door: Holocaust Haven in the Philippines on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, August 21 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 \nHis Excellency Jose Manuel “Babe” del Gallego Romualdez currently serves as the Philippine Ambassador to the United States and to some Caribbean Territories. He was appointed as Ambassador in July 2017 and was reappointed in July 2022. He is a recipient of the prestigious Order of Sikatuna in recognition of his meritorious contributions to the strengthening of the longstanding comprehensive ties between the Philippines and the US\, for his steadfast efforts to further deepen the Philippines-US alliance\, for promoting trade and investment\, and for his laudable initiative in the procurement of 20 million doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. Prior to his appointment\, he has extensive experience as a media practitioner and business executive. \n \nNoel Izon (left) is an independent filmmaker based in Maryland and born in Manila. His production credits encompass more than 250 films and videos. He has won many national awards for his work\, which include some 100 nationally televised programs produced mainly for PBS and for National Geographic Television. Among his numerous national and international clients are the White House and the Vatican. He spent ten years at PBS affiliate WNVT-Virginia and at the Educational Film Center as a writer/producer before forming his own production company in 1980. An Open Door: Holocaust Haven in the Philippines is the third in his trilogy of forgotten WWII stories. \n \nRalph Preiss (right) is a computer engineer who found a safe haven in the Philippines during World War II. He retired in 1991 from IBM\, where he worked on designing large computers for 37 years. Born in Germany\, he was in 4th grade in Manila when the Japanese overran that country in January 1942. He did not finish another grade until after the war\, going directly into high school which he completed in 3 years. He entered the University of the Philippines studying Engineering for one year before he was brought to the United States by his father’s cousin and enrolled at MIT. He and his late wife Marcia have four daughters\, ten grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. \n \nBonnie M. Harris\, Associate Producer and Holocaust historian for the documentary An Open Door: Holocaust Haven in the Philippines\, completed her Ph.D. in History at UC Santa Barbara\, where her doctoral dissertation was the first academic study of the Philippine rescue of European refugee Jews from the Holocaust. Her book\, Philippine Sanctuary: A Holocaust Odyssey\, traces the story of Joseph Cysner\, arrested and deported by the Nazis\, detained in a border camp at Zbaszyn\, Poland\, released to immigrate to Manila\, and then interned by the Japanese at Santo Tomas University Internment Camp during their occupation of the Philippines in WWII. Dr. Harris teaches history at both San Diego State University and Southwestern Community College. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/safe-haven-in-the-philippines/
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:A New Look at Oskar and Emilie Schindler
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nDr. Mordecai Paldiel oversaw the granting of the title of Righteous Among the Nations to Oskar and Emilie Schindler in 1993. See a documentary film on the Schindler story. Then learn behind-the-scenes stories from our distinguished panel\, including Dr. Paldiel\, Schindler’s biographer Dr. David Crowe\, and Marie P. Knecht\, the daughter of survivors of Schindler’s famous list. \n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ August 12-15\, watch the BBC film The Accidental Hero on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, August 14 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. David M. Crowe is the author of Oskar Schindler: The Untold Account of His Life\, Wartime Activities\, and the True Story Behind ‘The List\,’ the definitive history of the lives of Oskar and Emilie Schindler. He is the co-founder of the Jewish Memorial Committee which is creating two memorials in the Czech Republic honoring them. His new biography\, Raphael Lemkin: The Life of a Visionary\, will be published in 2023. His other significant works include The Holocaust: Roots\, History and Aftermath\, Stalin’s Soviet Justice\, War Crimes\, Genocide\, and Justice\, and a History of the Gypsies of Eastern Europe and Russia. Dr. Crowe was a member of the Education Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum from 1990-2004\, and has held postdoctoral fellowships at Columbia University\, Chapman University\, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. \n \nMarie P. Knecht is the daughter of Leopold and Ludmila Pfefferberg Page. Her father is the person who met author Thomas Keneally in his handbag store in Beverly Hills in 1980\, and said\, “I have a story for you.” Her parents often told the story of how Oskar and Emilie Schindler saved their lives during the Holocaust. Marie is a fitness professional who has been teaching classes to active adults since 2013 with her company MPK Fitness in California. She is married to Jeffrey Knecht whom she met in the LA Symphonic Winds. Her goal this year and for the future is to tell her parents’ story so future generations will never forget. \nDr. Mordecai Paldiel led 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 has taught at Yeshiva University and Touro College and serves on the Board of the Sousa Mendes Foundation. Thanks to his efforts\, there is a square named for Aristides de Sousa Mendes and a street named for Raoul Wallenberg\, both in Jerusalem. He is on the B’nai Brith committee honoring Jewish rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed. \n 
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/schindler/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Jan Karski -- Humanitarian Hero
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nJan Karski was a member of the Polish underground during World War II whose mission was to inform the Allied powers of Nazi crimes against the Jews of Europe in order to stop the Holocaust. Karski infiltrated the Warsaw Ghetto and a Nazi Transit Camp and carried his dreadful eyewitness report of the atrocities to Britain and the United States\, hoping that it would shake the conscience of the powerful leaders or – as he would later call them – the Lords of Humanity. For his extraordinary efforts Karski was named Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem. \n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ August 5-8\, watch Slawomir Grunberg‘s film Karski and the Lords of Humanity on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, August 7 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 SPEAKERS\nxxxxx \nSlawomir Grunberg\, left\, is an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker and a graduate of the Polish Film School in Lodz. His films include: Still Life in Łódź\, Karski & The Lords of Humanity\, Shimon’s Returns\, and many more. His film School Prayer: A Community At War\, screened on PBS\, received an Emmy Award and the Jan Karski Award for moral courage. Grunberg is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and New York Foundation for the Arts and Soros Justice Media Fellowships. His credits as director of photography include: Legacy (Academy Award nomination for best documentary feature) and Sister Rose’s Passion\, which won best short doc at the Tribeca Film Festival and received an Academy Award nomination for best documentary short. https://logtv.com/karski-the-lords-of-humanity/ \n \nDr. Michael Berenbaum\, right\, is Director of the Sigi Ziering Institute and co-founder of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. His books include A Promise to Remember: The Holocaust in the Words and Voices of Its Survivors; The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; A Mosaic of Victims: Non-Jews Persecuted and Murdered by the Nazis and Witness to the Holocaust: An Illustrated Documentary History of the Holocaust in the Words of Its Victims\, Perpetrators\, and Bystanders. He serves on the Advisory Council of the Sousa Mendes Foundation. \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 \nDr. Mordecai Paldiel\, right\, moderator\, led 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 has taught at Yeshiva University and Touro College and serves on the Board of the Sousa Mendes Foundation. Thanks to his efforts\, there is a square named for Aristides de Sousa Mendes and a street named for Raoul Wallenberg\, both in Jerusalem. He is on the B’nai Brith committee honoring Jewish rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. \nBozena U. Zaremba\, left\, co-host\, is a Director of Programming at the Jan Karski Educational Foundation and serves the organization’s needs as a project manager\, writer\, editor\, and translator. She oversees the promotion\, distribution\, and implementation of JKEF’s two leading projects: the graphic novel Karski’s Mission: to Stop the Holocaust and the traveling exhibition The World Knew: Jan Karski’s Mission for Humanity. Her work on the Karski legacy was recognized with the Agnes Crabtree International Relations Award at the 2019 Florida Council for Social Studies Conference\, where she is a regular presenter. She holds an M.A. in English from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow\, Poland\, and is a graduate of the State School of Music in Krakow. She lives in South Florida. www.jankarski.net \nxxxxx \nTWO LEVELS OF TICKETS\n \nGENERAL ADMISSION for the film and discussion only: $18 suggested donation. \nSPECIAL OFFER: Donate $100 or more and receive the film and discussion\, plus TWO AUTOGRAPHED AND INSCRIBED BOOKS: 1. the gorgeous coffee-table book WE SPOKE OUT: COMIC BOOKS AND THE HOLOCAUST (with preface by Stan Lee) and 2. the visually exciting graphic novel for young people\, KARSKI’S MISSION TO STOP THE HOLOCAUST\, both inscribed by the celebrated author Dr. Rafael Medoff. US shipping included! Limited time offer! \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed. \nxxxxx \nThe program is co-presented with the Jan Karski Educational Foundation. \n \nxxxxx
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/karski-and-the-lords-of-humanity/
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SUMMARY:Cartoonists Who Spoke Out
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nAt a time when too many people looked away\, a handful of American political cartoonists used their pens to raise the alarm about the raging Holocaust. These included some of America’s most famous cartoonists\, such as the beloved Dr. Seuss\, the Washington Post‘s Pulitzer Prize winning Herbert Block (“Herblock”) and many others. Holocaust historian Rafael Medoff\, author of We Spoke Out: Comic Books and the Holocaust\, will discuss this fascinating subject together with George Gustines\, who covers comics and graphic novels for The New York Times. \n \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nxxxx \nDr. Rafael Medoff (right) is founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies and the author of more than 20 books about the Holocaust and Jewish history\, including We Spoke Out: Comic Books and the Holocaust (with Neal Adams and Craig Yoe; preface by Stan Lee) and Cartoonists Against the Holocaust (with Craig Yoe). He co-created the animated series They Spoke Out: American Voices Against the Holocaust for Disney Educational Productions. Dr. Medoff has taught Jewish history at Ohio State University\, Purchase College of the State University of New York\, and elsewhere\, and is a Fellow of the Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research at Bar-Ilan University. \nGeorge Gene Gustines (left) has worked at The New York Times since 1990 when he started as a news assistant. He began writing about comic books in 2002 and has helped chronicle how much comics have seeped into pop culture in television\, film\, theater and more. He has reported on diversity in comics (the characters and their creators) and the decades-long appeal of characters like Batman and Spider-Man. His work has also spotlighted comics about the Holocaust including\, “Blowing the Whistle on Genocide” (about Josiah E. DuBois Jr.)\, “The Book that Hitler Didn’t Want You to Read” (about Alan Cranston) and “The Last Outrage” (about Dina Gottliebova Babbitt). \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/cartoonists-against-hitler/
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion,Lecture
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SUMMARY:The Children of Chabannes
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nThe Emmy® Award-winning The Children of Chabannes of Lisa Gossels and Dean Wetherell is the story of how the people in a tiny French village chose action over indifference\, and risked their lives and livelihoods\, to save more than 400 Jewish refugee children during World War Il. The Children of Chabannes is not only a story about the past. It’s an exploration of moral courage and goodness in the face of evil: of what motivates individuals to take a stand against injustice\, bigotry and extremism. Lisa Gossels\, whose father was one of the children rescued in Chabannes\, will be joined on the panel by Holocaust child refugee Dr. Norman Bikales\, who is featured in the film\, and Dr. Mordecai Paldiel who oversaw the honoring of the Chabannes rescuers.  \n \n“One of the most heartening Holocaust films ever made – splendid\, informative and emotionally involving.”– Los Angeles Times \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\nxxxxx \n⇒ July 22-25\, watch the film The Children of Chabannes on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, July 24 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 \n  \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nxxxxx \nDr. Norbert Bikales was born in Berlin\, Germany and was sent in 1939 on a Kindertransport to France. He spent most of the war years in various children’s homes in the care of OSE\, a French Jewish welfare organization\, as described in The Children of Chabannes. Toward the end of the war\, he managed to escape over the mountains into Switzerland. He later learned that his parents had been murdered in Belzec. Norbert arrived in America at the age of seventeen and resumed his studies\, which had been severely curtailed. He worked hard to support himself while studying for his high-school diploma\, BS\, MS\, and Ph.D. degrees. He had a successful\, multifaceted career as a polymer chemist. He and his wife Gerda have two children\, five grandchildren\, and two great-grandchildren. \n \nLisa Gossels is an Emmy® Award-winning social issue documentarian whose films The Children of Chabannes and My So-Called Enemy screened at 100 film festivals\, garnered 20 awards and aired on HBO and PBS. Lisa believes in the power of film to affect social change. After 25+ years in living New York City\, where she was also a sought-after educator\, consultant for documentarians\, writer and grant writer\, Lisa joined the Boston Jewish Film Festival as its Artistic Director in February of 2022. \n \nDr. Mordecai Paldiel led 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 has taught at Yeshiva University and Touro College and serves on the Board of the Sousa Mendes Foundation. Thanks to his efforts\, there is a square named for Aristides de Sousa Mendes and a street named for Raoul Wallenberg\, both in Jerusalem. He is on the B’nai Brith committee honoring Jewish rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/the-children-of-chabannes/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Morgenthau
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nThis Father’s Day program pays tribute to three generations of men in the Morgenthau family — an American Jewish dynasty whose continual fight for justice has brought them to the forefront of the most dramatic events of the past hundred years. From fighting for international action against the genocide of Armenians on the cusp of WWI\, through the efforts to rescue Jews during the Holocaust despite American political obstruction\, and on to the struggle to reduce street crime and pioneer the prosecution of white collar corruption in New York City\, the trajectory of the three Morgenthau generations epitomizes the American experience and the lasting value of public service. \n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ June 17-20\, watch the film Morgenthau on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, June 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 \nSEE THE TRAILER\n \n  \nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \nDr. Rafael Medoff is 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\, including the first scholarly book about the Bergson Group\, A Race Against Death\, which he coauthored with the late David Wyman. Dr. Medoff has taught Jewish history at Ohio State University\, Purchase College of the State University of New York\, and elsewhere\, and is a Fellow of the Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research at Bar-Ilan University. \n \nDr. Pamela Steiner is the great-granddaughter of Henry Morgenthau\, Sr. She is a psychologist and Senior Fellow at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health. Her work aims to contribute to improving relationships among Armenians\, Turks and Azerbaijanis by identifying and understanding collective traumas from decades of unresolved conflicts. She has also done conflict resolution work with Germans and Jews and Israelis and Palestinians. Her work appears in Collective Trauma and the Armenian Genocide: Armenian\, Turkish and Azerbaijani Relations Since 1839.  \n \nDr. Mordecai Paldiel led 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 has taught at Yeshiva University and Touro College and serves on the Board of the Sousa Mendes Foundation. Thanks to his efforts\, there is a square named for Aristides de Sousa Mendes and a street named for Raoul Wallenberg\, both in Jerusalem. He is on the B’nai Brith committee honoring Jewish rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed. \nxxxx
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/morgenthau/
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SUMMARY:Daughters of the Inquisition -- Retracing Long-Lost Jewish Roots
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nThis program features the breathtaking stories and genealogical sleuthwork of Doreen Carvajal and Genie Milgrom\, who succeeded in reaching back centuries to find their Jewish ancestors in pre-Inquisition Spain and Portugal. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nxxxxx \nGenie Milgrom (left) was born in Havana\, Cuba\, into a Roman Catholic family of Spanish ancestry. In an unparalleled work of genealogy\, she was able to fully document her unbroken maternal lineage 22 generations going back as far as 1405 to her Jewish ancestors in pre-Inquisition Spain and Portugal. She is the past president of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami and past president of the Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies. She is the author of My 15 Grandmothers\, as well as How I found My 15 Grandmothers: A Step by Step Guide\, and Pyre to Fire. She brings awareness to the topic of people tracing their Jewish roots to the time of the Inquisition who are returning to Judaism. Genie is director of the Converso Genealogy Project\, digitizing Inquisition files around the world. \n \nMariana Abrantes (right)\, 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. \nDoreen Carvajal (left) is a former New York Times culture reporter and the author of The Forgetting River: A Modern Tale of Survival\, Identity\, and the Inquisition\, which explored her quest to recover her Catholic family’s secret Jewish identity that led from Costa Rica to Segovia\, Spain to the tombs of 15th century ancestors investigated by the Inquisition for heresy. Based in Paris\, she is co-founder of the Orphan Art Project\, which aids descendants seeking restitution of looted art and recovery of family history. She appears in the film Stealing Italy\, the final episode of the documentary series Hunting Nazi Treasure. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/daughters-of-the-inquisition/
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion
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SUMMARY:Dr. Ruth Westheimer 94th Birthday Celebration
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \n\n\n\n\n\n\nMeet Dr. Ruth Westheimer and join her birthday celebration! Born as Karola Ruth Siegel on June 4\, 1928\, in Frankfurt\, Germany\, she grew up as the only child in a privileged Orthodox Jewish family. However\, her carefree childhood was violently shattered shortly after Kristallnacht when the SS came to take away her father. In 1939\, she was sent on a Kindertransport to Switzerland\, where she lived in an orphanage until 1945. She then emigrated to pre-state Israel\, became known as Ruth Siegel (dropping the German-sounding Karola) and became a sniper and scout for the Haganah.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nOn June 4\, 1948\, her 20th birthday\, she was wounded when a bomb exploded outside the kibbutz where she lived. Later she studied psychology at the Sorbonne in Paris. Upon receiving a restitution check for 5\,000 marks (approximately $1\,500) from the West German government\, she left the Sorbonne and sailed with her French boyfriend to New York\, where a place to live and a scholarship to the New School for Social Research awaited her. She later earned a Ph.D. from Columbia University and hosted a radio program with millions of listeners. \nDr. Ruth Westheimer has received many awards for her work\, including an honorary doctorate degree from Trinity College and the Medal for Distinguished Service from Columbia University. Still active as ever\, she has a strong social media following and continues to write books\, teach\, and give great advice. The Library of Congress has chosen to house her collected papers\, joining the distinguished collections of other celebrated figures in her field — from Margaret Sanger to Sigmund Freud. \n \nSign up to meet her and then\, as a FREE BONUS\, see a film about her amazing and inspirational life! \nAlso\, autographed copies of her best-selling children’s book Roller-Coaster Grandma are available ($18 including free US shipping). The perfect gift for a young person in your life! Please note that you must be registered for the program to order an autographed book. Limited supply! \nxxxxx \nMEET THE DISTINGUISHED INTERVIEWER\nxxxxx \n \nDr. Jud Newborn served as the Founding Historian and co-creator of New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage. He is the author of the acclaimed Sophie Scholl and the White Rose\, recently reissued in an expanded edition. He has lectured worldwide\, including at the United Nations. Following three years of adventurous 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 during Communism\, he was awarded his PhD with Distinction by the University of Chicago. He received the Anne Frank Center’s prestigious “Spirit of Anne Frank Award” and has won an Emmy. \nxxxxx \nThis program has ended.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/dr-ruth-westheimer-94th-birthday-celebration/
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion,Film Screening
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