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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/
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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
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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 
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SUMMARY:Sister Rose's Passion
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nA celebration of the extraordinary life and work of Sister Rose Thering and her successful quest to rid Catholic School education of anti-Semitism. Rose was a young nun in the Dominican order\, determined to stop the Catholic Church from teaching hate\, and prove that the doctrine blaming Jews for the death of Jesus was irreconcilable with her notion of a loving God. Rose’s efforts paved the way for the historic Vatican II Council and the papal encyclical that reformed the Church’s teachings about Jews. She later became a renowned Holocaust educator and received the Courage to Care award from the Anti-Defamation League. \n \nxxxxx \nSEE AN INTERVIEW WITH THE FILMMAKER\n\n\nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ November 11-14\, watch Oren Jacoby‘s Oscar-nominated film Sister Rose’s Passion on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, November 13 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nxxxxx \n \nBarbara Wind\, a scholar of Jewish-Christian and Holocaust Studies\, served as Executive Director of the Holocaust Council of Greater MetroWest from 2000-2018. She is currently completing several non-fiction books\, including Scaling the Mountain\, a memoir-biography of Sister Rose Thering. A writer\, journalist\, playwright and poet\, her publications include: The Myth of Jewish Non-Resistance During the Holocaust\, Seton Hall University\, 2001; Auf Asch Gehen\, EOS Verlag 2005; articles in The New York Times\, The Times of Israel\, The Jewish Link\, The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)\, literary publications\, and poetry anthologies. She expects to soon publish The Yoke of Night\, a poetic memoir of the Holocaust written in 1944 by Jurek Zakrzewski\, for whom she is the literary executor. \nAfter serving 28 years as National Director and a total of fifty years with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL)\, Abraham H. Foxman\, left\, retired in 2015 and became National Director Emeritus. He is world-renowned as a leader in the fight against anti-semitism\, bigotry and discrimination and speaks out on issues of global anti-semitism\, the war on terrorism\, church/state issues\, religious intolerance and issues relating to the Holocaust. During his long and distinguished career\, Foxman has had consultations with world leaders on every continent including the three most recent popes. Abraham Foxman was a hidden child in Poland during the Holocaust. \n \nOren Jacoby\, right\, is an Oscar-nominated filmmaker. His latest film\, On Broadway (2021)\, tells the story of the rebirth of the Broadway Theater and New York City. He is currently directing a documentary about the fossil fuel industry and climate change. Sister Rose’s Passion was a winner of Best Documentary Short Film at the Tribeca Film Festival and nominated for an Oscar. Shadowman (Amazon Prime) was the audience award runner-up at the Tribeca Film Festival. His theatrical adaptation of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man won the Joseph Jefferson Award for best new play adaptation. He is the Executive Producer of Julia and Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down. \n \nDr. Jud Newborn\, left\, who will host and moderate the program\, served as the Founding Historian of the Museum of Jewish Heritage. He is the author of the acclaimed Sophie Scholl and the White Rose\, and he has presented his multimedia lecture programs at the United Nations and worldwide. He was awarded his PhD with Distinction by the University of Chicago following three years of fieldwork in Europe as a Fulbright and Woodrow Wilson National Fellow\, including hunting down former SS officers and working undercover for Poland’s “Solidarity” freedom movement. He was honored with the Anne Frank Center’s prestigious “Spirit of Anne Frank Award” and is the Emmy Award winning Producer of Special Celebrity Programs for Long Island\, NY’s Cinema Arts Centre. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/sister-roses-passion/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Heroes of the St. Louis
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nMany people are familiar with the tragic story of the St. Louis ship\, whose nearly 1000 Jewish passengers were turned back to Europe after they were refused entry by Cuba\, Canada\, and the United States.  But few are aware of the bravery of the ship’s captain\, Gustav Schroeder\, who was declared a Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem\, and of Morris Troper and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Thanks to their strenuous efforts\, the passengers were permitted to disembark in the United Kingdom\, Belgium\, the Netherlands\, and France\, rather than returning to Nazi Germany. As a result\, the passengers had a chance of surviving the ordeal\, and many hundreds of them did. Meet Dr. Hans Fisher\, who was one of these survivors\, and Scott Miller\, who is a leading world expert on this story. \n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ November 4-7\, watch the film When Canada Said No: The Abandoned Jews of the MS St. Louis on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, November 6 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our panel of guests.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \nDr. Hans Fisher\, left\, is a survivor of the St. Louis ship. He is a Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University in the Department of Nutritional Sciences. Born in Breslau\, Germany\, he ended up in France after the ship returned to Europe. In 1940 he made it to Cuba where he stayed until 1941 when he was finally able to enter the United States. He earned a Ph.D in Nutritional Biochemistry from the University of Illinois. With his wife Ruth he translated Mendel Rosenbusch — Tales for Jewish Children originally written in German by Ilse Weber. Dr. Fisher has been a Visiting Scientist at Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and has lectured at Harvard Medical School. The Fishers have three children and nine grandchildren. \nScott Miller\, right\, was a founding staff member at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum\, where he worked for 30 years. He is a co-author of Refuge Denied – The St. Louis Passengers and the Holocaust and other publications. In 2001\, he was appointed the Director of the Museum’s Benjamin and Vladka Meed Registry of Holocaust Survivors. In 2006\, he became Director of Curatorial Affairs\, overseeing the Museum’s archival\, artifact\, photo\, film\, music and oral history collections. Currently he is a consulting curator for the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust’s new core exhibition “The Holocaust: What Hate Can Do\,” and is guest curator for the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education’s new exhibition “Human Rights After the Holocaust.” \n \nDr. Jud Newborn\, left\, who will host and moderate the program\, served as the Founding Historian of the Museum of Jewish Heritage. He is the author of the acclaimed Sophie Scholl and the White Rose\, and he has presented his multimedia lecture programs at the United Nations and worldwide. He was awarded his PhD with Distinction by the University of Chicago following three years of fieldwork in Europe as a Fulbright and Woodrow Wilson National Fellow\, including hunting down former SS officers and working undercover for Poland’s “Solidarity” freedom movement. He was honored with the Anne Frank Center’s prestigious “Spirit of Anne Frank Award” and is the Emmy Award winning Producer of Special Celebrity Programs for Long Island\, NY’s Cinema Arts Centre. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed. \n\n 
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/heroes-of-the-st-louis/
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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/
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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/
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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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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220619
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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/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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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/
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SUMMARY:Tevye\, the Black Cantor -- The Remarkable Story of Thomas LaRue Jones
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nThe history of Black-Jewish cultural interaction primarily focuses on how Jews adopted and adapted Black vernacular music — ragtime\, jazz\, swing\, R&B and blues\, etc. — as performers\, promoters\, managers\, club owners and record labels. However\, what has never before been explored were the African-Americans who performed Yiddish and cantorial music in and for the Jewish community\, in theaters on record\, radio and in concert between the World Wars. The talk will honor the memory of now forgotten Black cantor Thomas LaRue Jones. The talk will feature historic graphics and translations of period Yiddish newspaper previews\, ads and reviews and the playing of his only known Yiddish and Hebrew recording. \n \nxxxxx \nMEET THE DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS\nxxxxx \nHenry Sapoznik\, right\, is an award-winning record and radio producer\, author\, and ethnomusicologist in the fields of Yiddish and American popular and traditional culture. He is featured in the film Hava Nagila (The Movie). A five-time Grammy-nominated producer\, he won the 2002 Peabody award for his 13-part NPR series “The Yiddish Radio Project” — the collection of which was acquired by the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress in 2011. Sapoznik’s most recent reissue box set is  Protobilly: The Minstrel and Tin Pan Alley Roots of Country Music 1892-2017 (2019). He is working on a book about the shvartze khazonim — the Black cantors.  \nRabbi Capers Funnye\, left\, works to bring diverse communities into the Jewish fold. This work is most apparent working with the Lemba community of South Africa\, the Ibo communities in Nigeria\, Ghana and Cameroon\, and the Abayudaya of Uganda. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Hebrew Literature and rabbinic ordination from the Israelite Board of Rabbis in Queens\, NY. He earned a BA degree in Jewish Studies and an MS in Human Service Administration from the Spertus Institute of Judaica in Chicago\, IL. Rabbi Funnye is a Board member of the Chicago Board of Rabbis\, the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs (past President)\, HIAS\, the Chicago Theological Seminary\, the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis and Kulanu\, and is the Chief Rabbi of the International Israelite Board of Rabbis. Rabbi Funnye has lectured throughout the United States\, Europe and Africa. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed. \nxxxxx
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/tevye-the-black-cantor/
CATEGORIES:Discussion
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SUMMARY:The Polish Diplomats who Issued Paraguayan Passports to Save Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nStefan Ryniewicz was a Polish diplomat and counselor of the Legation of Poland in Bern\, Switzerland between 1940 and 1945. He was part of the Ładoś Group that invented a scheme to save Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe by issuing them with passports to Paraguay and then convincing the Paraguayan government to accept their new citizens. Meet his granddaughter\, Alexandra MacMurdo Reiter\, and author K. Heidi Fishman\, whose family was pulled off a transport to Auschwitz on the strength of one of these life-saving passports. Also on the panel is Holocaust historian Dr. Mordecai Paldiel\, whose own family was also helped by Ryniewicz. \n \nxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\nxxxxx \n⇒ May 20-23\, watch the film Passports to Paraguay on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, May 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 SPEAKERS\nxxxxx \n \nAlexandra Reiter\, right\, is the granddaughter of the Holocaust rescuer Stefan Ryniewicz. She is an Associate Professor of Communication at Georgia Highlands College. Alex received her BS in Communication from Florida State University and her Masters in Organizational Communication and Executive MBA from Suffolk University in Boston\, MA. In June 2019\, Alex accepted the Virtus et Fraternitas medal presented to her by Polish President Andrzej Duda. Only fourteen medals of this type have been given in Polish history. This medal was given posthumously for her grandfather’s bravery in saving Jews in occupied German territory during World War II through the creation of fake foreign passports which saved thousands of lives.   \nK. Heidi Fishman\, left\, is an author and retired psychologist. She has an M.A. and an Ed.D. in Counseling Psychology. While Heidi always knew her mother and grandparents were Holocaust survivors\, she didn’t start researching their story until she retired. Five years of investigation led to the multi-award winning Tutti’s Promise which\, while fictionalized for the purpose of allowing conversations among characters\, follows her family’s true story from May 10\, 1940\, in Amsterdam through two Nazi camps\, liberation\, and resettlement; the book contains numerous original documents. Fishman speaks to schools and community groups to teach about the perils of prejudice and bigotry. She is on the board of the Vermont Holocaust Memorial and a member of the International Committee of the Ładoś Group. \n \nDr. Mordecai Paldiel led the Righteous Among the Nations Department at Yad Vashem from 1982-2007\, and his own family was helped by Stefan Ryniewicz. 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/paraguayan-passport/
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SUMMARY:Saving Italy: The Rescue of Nazi-Looted Art
DESCRIPTION:12 PM LOS ANGELES • 3 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nBeginning in September of 1943\, Italy became one of the prime sites for the Nazi plunder of art and cultural treasures. Follow a team of investigative art researchers from the Monuments Men Foundation as they pursue every possible lead to search for artwork and gold looted in Italy by the Nazis. Photo: A painting by Italian master Bernardo Luini stolen by the Hermann Göring Tank Division from the Abbey of Montecassino in Italy and recovered in Altaussee\, Austria\, 1945. Thomas Carr Howe papers\, Archives of American Art. \n \nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \n  \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ May 13-16\, watch Stealing Italy\, episode 8 of the acclaimed investigative documentary series Hunting Nazi Treasure produced by Saloon Media and BriteSpark Films. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, May 15 at 3:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of guests.  A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nxxxxx \n \nAfter testing the waters as an aspiring professional tennis player\, Robert Edsel shifted careers and built from the ground up a successful oil and gas exploration company that pioneered the use of horizontal drilling. Later he sold the company to pursue his interest in art and architecture\, a decision that led to his discovery of the Monuments Men and Women story. In 2007\, Robert founded the Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art to honor the remarkable legacy of these men and women. His work has resulted in numerous honors. He has written four books\, published two others\, co-produced the Emmy®-nominated film The Rape of Europa\, consulted with George Clooney on his film production\, The Monuments Men\, based on his second book\, and has served as the Executive Producer and on-air host of an acclaimed television series\, Hunting Nazi Treasure. \n \nBorn in Florence\, Anna Bottinelli (right) is President of the Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art and an expert on art looting and recovery during World War II. She earned her B.A. in History of Art from John Cabot University in Rome and an M.A. in Art History at The Courtauld Institute of Art in London. In 2010\, she became the lead research assistant to author Robert Edsel on his project to write about the Monuments Men and their preservation work in Italy during World War II. She has worked at the Monuments Men Foundation in Dallas\, Texas since 2014 and was appointed President in 2019. During her tenure at the Foundation\, Ms. Bottinelli has overseen numerous restitutions of cultural objects to individuals and museums in Europe. She has served as a consultant for Hunting Nazi Treasure\, an eight-part investigative documentary that continues to air internationally.  \nDoreen Carvajal (left) is a former New York Times culture reporter and co-founder of the Orphan Art Project\, which aids descendants seeking restitution of looted art and recovery of family history. She is the author of The Forgetting River: A Modern Tale of Survival\, Identity\, and the Inquisition about tracing her family’s Sephardic roots. Based in Paris\, she is currently at work on a book about a looted Renoir portrait and the struggle of a wealthy Jewish family to survive and salvage the painting from the wreckage of the German Occupation in France. She appears in the film Stealing Italy\, the final episode of the documentary series Hunting Nazi Treasure. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed. \n\nThe program is co-presented with the Monuments Men Foundation. \n \n 
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/saving-italy/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Mothers of Exile -- Emma Lazarus and Lady Liberty
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nThis Mother’s Day program pays tribute to the twin “mothers of exile” — the poet Emma Lazarus and the Statue of Liberty. \n \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nxxxxx \nEsther Schor is the Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor of American Jewish Studies at Princeton. Her 2006 biography Emma Lazarus won the National Jewish Book Award. Her poems include The Hills of Holland and Strange Nursery: New and Selected Poems; she is a co-author of Poems for Sarra\, a bilingual collection about the Venetian intellectual Sarra Copia Sullam. A specialist in British romanticism\, her scholarship includes Bearing the Dead: The British Culture of Mourning from the Enlightenment to Victoria and The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley. Her most recent book is Bridge of Words: Esperanto and the Dream of a Universal Language\, a cultural history/memoir of the Esperanto movement\, and she is currently writing a biography of the philosopher Horace M. Kallen. \n \nEdward Berenson is professor of history at NYU and the author of The Statue of Liberty: A Transatlantic Story. He is a cultural historian specializing in the history of modern France and its empire\, with additional interests in the history of Britain\, the British Empire\, and the United States. He is the author of The Accusation: Blood Libel in an American Town\, which examines the lone case of a ritual murder accusation against American Jews\, and the forthcoming Levittown International: Suburbanization in the Postwar World. Berenson received the American Historical Association’s Eugene Asher Distinguished Teaching Award as well as UCLA’s Distinguished Teaching Award. In 2006\, French President Jacques Chirac decorated him as Chevalier de l’Ordre du Mérite.  \nVictoria Redel is the author of three books of poetry and five books of fiction. Her fourth book of poems\, Paradise\, was published in February 2022. She is a recipient of numerous awards including fellowships from the Guggenheim and the NEA\, and her work has been widely awarded\, anthologized and translated into ten languages. Redel’s novel Loverboy was adapted for a feature film that premiered at Sundance and was directed by Kevin Bacon. She has taught at Columbia University\, Davidson College\, Vermont College of Fine Arts and is on the Sarah Lawrence College faculty.  \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/mothers-of-exile-emma-lazarus-and-lady-liberty/
CATEGORIES:Discussion
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SUMMARY:Jews in Jamaica -- Finding Safe Harbor
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nThe Caribbean island of Jamaica has had a Jewish community since Jews found refuge there during the Inquisition.  Meet Ainsley Cohen Henriques\, prominent leader of Jewish Jamaica whose family has lived on the island for generations. Author Joan Arnay Halperin will share the little-known story of Jews who found a safe but temporary refuge in Jamaica after escaping from Nazi-occupied Europe.  The program will be moderated by Professor Shulamit Reinharz of Brandeis University. \n \nxxxxx \nMEET THE PANEL\nAinsley Cohen Henriques is a leader of the Jewish community in Kingston\, Jamaica\, where he was born. His professional life has been spent in agriculture and business\, and he has served as President of the congregation of Kingston’s historic sand-floored Shaare Shalom Synagogue. He attended University in Reading\, England\, where he was President of the Jewish Club\, and also sat on the then Undergraduate Jewish Council for England. In Jamaica he joined B’nai Brith\, and served as its Vice-President across the Caribbean and Central America. He and his wife created the Jewish Heritage Center at Shaare Shalom Synagogue. An avid genealogist\, he has catalogued all of the Jewish graves in Jamaica from the earliest found dated 1672. For the past twenty years he has been the Honorary Consul for Israel. \n \nJoan Arnay Halperin\, left\, is a daughter and granddaughter of Sousa Mendes visa recipients who found refuge in Jamaica in 1942. She is a retired TESOL teacher in the New York City public schools and the author of My Sister’s Eyes: A Family Chronicle of Rescue and Loss During World War II. Joan has presented her story at numerous Holocaust education workshops organized by Echoes and Reflections and The Olga Lengyel Institute (TOLI). Kirkus Reviews calls My Sister’s Eyes “a thoroughly researched and intensely moving remembrance\,” and the book is featured in the K-12 World War II section of the research resource\, GALE.com. Joan has served in various capacities in the Sousa Mendes Foundation and continues to serve on its Educational Initiatives Committee. \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. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/jewish-jamaica/
CATEGORIES:Discussion
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SUMMARY:Albert Einstein -- Still a Revolutionary!
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nAlbert Einstein\, the most famous scientist of all time\, was also the most famous refugee from Nazi-occupied Europe.  An anti-war firebrand\, Einstein also spoke out on issues ranging from women’s rights and racism to immigration and nuclear arms control. Using a wealth of rarely-seen archival footage\, correspondence\, and new and illuminating interviews\, filmmaker Julia Newman makes the case that Einstein’s example of social and political activism is as important today as are his brilliant\, ground-breaking theories. \n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ April 22-25\, watch Julia Newman‘s film Albert Einstein — Still a Revolutionary! on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, April 24 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 \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \n  \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nxxxx \nSusan Neiman (left) is Director of the Einstein Forum. Born in Atlanta\, Georgia\, she studied philosophy at Harvard and the Freie Universität Berlin\, and was professor of philosophy at Yale and Tel Aviv University. She is the author of Slow Fire: Jewish Notes from Berlin\, The Unity of Reason: Rereading Kant\, Evil in Modern Thought\, Fremde sehen anders\, Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists\, Why Grow Up?\, Widerstand der Vernunft. Ein Manifest in postfaktischen Zeiten and Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil. \nBorn and raised in Brooklyn\, filmmaker Julia Newman (right) worked in advertising as a producer of television commercials for over twenty years. She served as Executive Director of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives for five years. Her previous\, award-winning documentary\, Into the Fire: American Women in the Spanish Civil War\, portrayed the American medical workers and journalists who served in the first fight against Fascism. The film was broadcast on Public Television and Spanish Television and is distributed in the U. S. by First Run Features. \nRabbi Michael Paley has spent his career working with students\, leaders and Jewish communities in the U.S. and around the world. For 20 years\, he served as the scholar in residence of the UJA-Federation of New York. He was the university chaplain at Columbia University\, and the Jewish chaplain at Dartmouth College. Before his arrival at UJA\, Rabbi Paley was a Professor of Jewish Studies and Dean at Bard College. Rabbi Paley appeared in the films Albert Einstein – Still a Revolutionary! and Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story. He lives with his wife in Budapest\, Hungary and works with the Jewish community in Central Europe for the JDC\, an international Jewish relief agency.  \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/albert-einstein-still-a-revolutionary/
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SUMMARY:Not Idly By -- Peter Bergson\, America and the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK • 9 PM JERUSALEM\nxxxxx \nBest Documentary\, Toronto Jewish Film Festival \nIn Not Idly By\, filmmaker Pierre Sauvage explores the American reaction to the mass murder of the Jews of Europe. Most Americans believe that we didn’t know about the Holocaust until after it was over. Many assume that we couldn’t have done anything even if we had known. Meet Peter Bergson! A Palestinian Jew who had come to the U.S. in 1940\, this firebrand led what came to be known as the Bergson Group\, whose protest campaigns helped shatter the silence surrounding the Holocaust. Prominently featured in the film are extended excerpts from the legendary 1943 production by Ben Hecht and Kurt Weill\, We Will Never Die. In addition to Sauvage\, our panel includes Dr. Rebecca Kook (daughter of Bergson)\, Dr. Rafael Medoff\, and moderator Dr. Mordecai Paldiel. \n \n  \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ March 18-21\, watch Pierre Sauvage‘s film Not Idly By on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, March 20 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 \nINTRODUCTION BY THE FILMMAKER\nxxxxx \n\n \nxxxxx \nSEE THE TRAILER\nxxxxx \n \n  \nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \nPierre Sauvage\, an Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker\, is one of a pioneering handful of experts on rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust — “righteous Gentiles” — and contends that they still have much to teach us. Born into hiding in Le Chambon\, France\, Sauvage was four when he and his parents moved to New York City in 1948\, his parents choosing to hide the fact that they were Jewish. Described by Tablet magazine as “a filmmaker of rare moral perception\,” Sauvage is the President of the Chambon Foundation. In addition to Not Idly By\, his films include Weapons of the Spirit\, Yiddish: the Mother Tongue\, and We Were There: Christians and the Holocaust.  \nDr. Rebecca Kook is a professor of political science at Ben Gurion University of the Negev and the daughter of Hillel Kook\, also known as Peter Bergson. She completed her doctorate at Columbia University. Her research interests include the politics of memory\, Holocaust commemoration\, and Israeli society and culture. She is the author of numerous articles\, most recently “Agents of memory in the post-witness era: Memory in the Living Room and changing forms of Holocaust remembrance in Israel.” She often lectures on the politics of memory surrounding her father’s legacy\, and she is currently working on a volume which brings forth a decades long correspondence between him and his political colleague Samuel Merlin.  \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\, 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. Mordecai Paldiel (left\, 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. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed. \nxxxxx \nThis program is co-presented with the Chambon Foundation.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/not-idly-by-peter-bergson-america-and-the-holocaust/
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SUMMARY:Shalom China
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nChina has a long and storied Jewish history dating back to at least the eighth century. The Jews of Kaifeng\, who disappeared through assimilation and intermarriage\, are undergoing a resurgence with their descendants reclaiming their lost identities. There were also substantial communities\, now lost\, in Harbin and Shanghai. Many Austrian Jews also came to Shanghai seeking refuge from Nazi-occupied Europe\, rescued by the Holocaust hero Feng Shan Ho\, the “angel of Vienna.” Today\, the Jewish population in China is approximately 2\,500 people. Image: Page with names in Hebrew and Chinese from a Kaifeng Jewish prayer book\, collection of the Klau Library in Cincinnati. \n \n  \nMEET THE PANEL\nxxxxx \n \nEster Shifren is the descendant of five generations of British Jews who lived in Shanghai from the 1840s to 1951. Her family owned six winning race horses and lived in a 24-room house. But their lives changed forever during World War II when they were interned for three years in a Japanese POW camp and suffered extreme hardship\, severe deprivation\, illnesses and the loss of all worldly possessions. They left China for nascent Israel in 1951. Destitute after all their losses\, the family was settled in a transit camp\, living in tents and later in one-roomed prefab wooden huts. Ester is an international speaker\, visual artist\, journalist\, classical and jazz musician and the author of Hiding in a Cave of Trunks: A Prominent Jewish Family’s Century in Shanghai and Internment in a WWII POW Camp. In 2005 she was featured in the BBC1 program\, “We’ll Meet Again” and was a guest lecturer for several days at the Imperial War Museum.  \nNicholas Zane (right) is the creator of the website www.chinesejews.com and an expert on the Jews of Kaifeng. He is the author of Jews in China: A History of Struggle and Chinese Jews: The Tribe That Israel Never Truly Lost and has created a children’s series on a friendship between a Jewish boy and Chinese girl in the Song Dynasty. Born in Hong Kong to a non-Jewish family\, he moved to Britain at the age of 13. Upon learning about the experience of the Chinese Jews\, Nicholas was compelled to learn more and to share their story. He is an undergraduate at Dartmouth College and has lectured at Oxford University\, the British House of Parliament and elsewhere. \nRobert Jacobvitz (left)\, who will moderate the program\, serves on the Executive Committee of the Sousa Mendes Foundation and chairs its Advisory Council. For ten years he directed the Jewish Community Relations Council of the Greater East Bay\, and it was in this capacity in the 1980’s that he began championing the cause of Aristides de Sousa Mendes. In 2005 he received the Aristides de Sousa Mendes Humanitarian Medal from the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation. He wrote a seminal article on Aristides de Sousa Mendes that can be read at this link. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/shalom-china/
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion
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SUMMARY:"We are all Jews here" -- The Story of Roddie Edmonds
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nFootsteps of My Father\, an award-winning film produced by the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous\, presents the extraordinary story of Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds\, the only American soldier recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations. \n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\nxxxxx \n⇒ Watch the JFR’s award-winning film Footsteps of My Father on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. Please note that the film will be available at the following times:  Friday\, March 4\, 9 AM-4 PM Eastern Time and from Saturday\, March 5 at 8 PM Eastern Time until Sunday\, March 6 at 2 PM Eastern Time. \n⇒ Sunday\, March 6 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 \nPastor Chris Edmonds is the son of WWII hero Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds. He is the author of No Surrender: A Father\, a Son\, and an Extraordinary Act of Heroism That Continues to Live on Today. Recently retired as Senior Pastor of Piney Grove Baptist Church in Maryville\, Tennessee\, Pastor Chris works to extend his father’s legacy of choosing good\, opposing hate\, dignifying life\, and expressing love to all. He is a business graduate from the University of Tennessee and holds a Master of Arts in Religion from Liberty Theological Seminary. As the founder of Roddie’s Code\, Pastor Chris is committed to perpetuating his father’s legacy. Sergeant Edmonds’ incredible story and Chris’ improbable journey to discover it is inspiring millions of ordinary people to do what’s right for others and be the hero. \nStanlee J. Stahl is the Executive Vice President of The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous. During Stanlee’s tenure\, the Foundation has sent more than $42 million dollars to Righteous Gentiles who saved Jews during the Holocaust. She also oversees the Foundation’s renowned national Holocaust education program. Before joining the Foundation\, Stanlee establish Extra Helping\, a program to feed New Jersey’s hungry. Stanlee spent 20 years working for the United States Department of Health and Human Services. She lived in Israel where she worked for Magen David Adom\, Israel’s Red Cross Society. She graduated from Miami University in Ohio and has graduate degrees from George Washington University and New York University.  \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed. \n\n  \nThis program is co-presented with:
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/we-are-all-jews-here-the-story-of-roddie-edmonds/
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Shimon's Returns
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nThe documentary film produced by Slawomir Grunberg and co-directed with Katka Reszke tells the story of Shimon Redlich\, a hidden child during the Holocaust who returns to places from his childhood in Poland and the Ukraine to thank his rescuers. \n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ February 25-28\, watch Slawomir Grunberg‘s film Shimon’s Returns on your home device ($6.99 rental for those without a Season Ticket).  A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, February 27 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 \nDr. Shimon Redlich\, right\, is a Professor Emeritus of Modern European History and Modern Jewish History at Ben Gurion University in Israel. A child survivor of the Holocaust\, he was born in Lwow in 1935 and lived in nearby Brzezany\, saved by Poles and Ukrainians. In 1948 he participated in the landmark Yiddish film Unzere Kinder\, one of the first films about the Holocaust. He studied history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, Sovietology at Harvard University and received his Ph.D. at New York University. He is the author of numerous books and articles on Jewish history in the Soviet Union\, Poland and the Ukraine. He has been active publicly for years to improve Polish-Jewish and Ukrainian-Jewish relations. \nSlawomir Grunberg\, left\, is an Emmy Award winning documentary filmmaker and a graduate of the Polish Film School in Lodz. His films include: Everything is in Your Hands\, Still Life in Łódź\, Karski & The Lords of Humanity\, Shimon’s Returns\, Castaways\, 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. \nRichard Hurowitz\, moderator\, at right\, 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 on Holocaust rescuers will be published by HarperCollins in January 2023. 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. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/shimons-returns/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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