Sousa Mendes Visa Recipient, Wolf Rand, Hired the Lawyers Who Saved the SS Quanza #HolocaustEdu
The combination of Wolf Rand, Sousa Mendes visa recipient, Jacob Morowitz and Sallie Rome Morowitz, mercantile lawyers in Virginia Beach, VA, and Eleanor Roosevelt, who advocated for the rights of World War II refugees, saved the passengers of the SS Quanza.
"Nobody Wants Us" a film by Laura Seltzer-Duny
Wold Rand, credit Sousa Mendes Foundation
"Nobody Wants Us" @CinemaArts Feb. 2, 2020 - Welcome Friends of L I @HolocaustTolCtr #HolocaustEdu #WWII
Nobody Wants Us a film by Laura Seltzer-Duny (View trailer)
The combination of Wolf Rand, Sousa Mendes visa recipient, Jacob Morowitz and Sallie Rome Morowitz, mercantile lawyers in Virginia Beach, VA, and Eleanor Roosevelt, who advocated for the rights of World War II refugees, saved the passengers of the SS Quanza.
Blanchette (Flora) Rubin's family received visas from #AristidesdeSousaMendes
Read the incredible story of :
Blanchette (Flora) Rubin's escape from Belgium.
Watch this video of Blanchette (Flora) in Portugal!
#WorldWarII #Refugee Returns to #Portugal
World War II refugee, Blanchette Fluer, recalls time in Portugal
Flora Rubin
A Triumph of Humanity - Portuguese Hospitality to Refugees during WWII
Krakowiak family and friends meet to exchange information at the Cafe Europa, Figueira da Foz, 1940-41.
Honoring #Rescuer Aristides de Sousa Mendes - Exhibition in Luxembourg #HolocaustEdu
Click: Visas Issued by Sousa Mendes Saved the Royal Family of Luxembourg - Exhibition Tells the Story
November 28, 2019 - February 22, 2020
Archives Nationales, Plateau du Saint-Esprit
Luxembourg, 2010 Luxembourg + Google Map
Attn: @ALALibrary - Americans and the #Holocaust Exhibit #USHMM
Librarians: Please consider adding My Sister’s Eyes, the story of Yvonne Krakowiak, one innocent casualty of those American fears to your collection.
Available through: @FolletLearning, Kobo and Amazon Kindle
Dr. Michael Berenbaum: “My Sister’s Eyes is a charming work written with precision and passion. Follow the Krakowiak family from their prosperous life in Poland through the Nazi onslaught - their rescue by the Portuguese Consul Aristides de Sousa Mendes - and their tragic loss…"
“A thoroughly researched and intensely moving remembrance.”
Kirkus Reviews: My Sister’s Eyes: A Family Chronicle of Rescue and Loss During World War II
Yvonne’s Memorial photo (b. June 1, 1938, Lodz, Poland - d. June 4, 1942, Gibraltar Camp, Kingston, Jamaica, BWI)
Aristides de Sousa Mendes Honored at Luxembourg Archives Exhibition #Rescuers #HolocaustEdu
“I could not have acted otherwise, and I, therefore, accept all that has befallen me with love.”
– Aristides de Sousa Mendes
Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Portuguese Consul General in Bordeaux, France in June of 1940, issued visas to safety to thousands of desperate refugees.
This heroic feat was characterized by the Holocaust historian Yehuda Bauer as “perhaps the largest rescue action by a single individual during the Holocaust.”
The Salazar government punished him severely and erased him from the history books.
Attn: @ALALibrary - Americans and the Holocaust:
A Traveling Exhibition for Libraries examines the motives, pressures and fears that shaped Americans’ responses to Nazism, war and genocide in Europe during the 1930s and 1940s.
Librarians: Please consider adding My Sister’s Eyes, the story of Yvonne Krakowiak, one innocent casualty of those American fears to your collection.
Available through: @FolletLearning, Kobo and Amazon Kindle
Dr. Michael Berenbaum: “My Sister’s Eyes is a charming work written with precision and passion. Follow the Krakowiak family from their prosperous life in Poland through the Nazi onslaught - their rescue by the Portuguese Consul Aristides de Sousa Mendes - and their tragic loss…"
“A thoroughly researched and intensely moving remembrance.”
Kirkus Reviews: My Sister’s Eyes: A Family Chronicle of Rescue and Loss During World War II
Yvonne’s Memorial photo (b. June 1, 1938, Lodz, Poland - d. June 4, 1942, Gibraltar Camp, Kingston, Jamaica, BWI)
Aristides de Sousa Mendes' Legacy Preserved @USCShoahFdn @ElBeardsley @NPR #HolocaustEdu
BLOG: THROUGH TESTIMONY the USC Shoah Foundation:
The Memory of a Hero: Aristides de Sousa Mendes' Legacy Preserved in Testimony
Contributor: Benjamin Biniaz - August 5, 2016
'Portugal's Schindler' Is Remembered, Decades After His Lifesaving Deeds
Eleanor Beardsley NPR - August 4, 2016
Those who were helped by Portugal's consul general, Aristides de Sousa Mendes, during World War II assemble outside the former Portuguese consulate in Bordeaux. Sousa Mendes issued 10,000 visas to Jews including Stephen Rozenfeld (center front, in blue), George Helft (center front, in white) and Lissy Jarvik (third from right), before being recalled and dismissed from the diplomatic service.
Eleanor Beardsley/NPR
@sousamendesfdn - 2020 "Journey on the Road to Freedom" #RighteousDiplomats #Holocaust #WWII
Dr. Mordecai Paldiel, the world’s leading authority on the Righteous Diplomats and other Holocaust rescuers, will lead the tour as scholar-in-residence.
Rave reviews from prior participants:
“A wonderful experience!”
“Enlightening, inspiring, often emotional.”
“One of the best trips I have ever taken.” “Super!”
“It went beyond my expectations.”
“Much more than I expected. It was a once in a lifetime experience.”
“Inspirational and wonderful!”
Click Here for Full Itinerary
#NeverForget - The Kaplan Family - Poland - August, 1939
Last photos of the Kaplan Family - Perished at Treblinka
@marcelorebelo_ Inaugurates Fronteira da Paz Museum, August 2017 #VilarFormoso #Portugal @sousamendesfdn #HolocaustEdu
As we celebrate the 2nd Anniversary of the opening of the Fronteira da Paz Museum, President Marcelo continues the call to #NeverForget in this 31/8/19 article “Marcelo apela ao ensino…”
l. to R. Mayor Almeida. President Marcel Rebelo de Sousa and Architeca and Curator Luisa Pacheco Marques
Pictured far left - Margarida Ramalho - Author, Historian and Curator of the Fronteira da Paz Museum
Joan starts to read from her book and Pres. Marcelo completes the passage.
Sympathy for Sousa Mendes visa recipients who are remembered at the Vilar Formoso “Fronteira da Paz” Museum.
Vancouver 6th Grade Student Interprets MY SISTER'S EYES #HolocaustEdu
Myra Michaelson, seasoned teacher at Vancouver Talmud Torah school visits the tree planted by Dr. Mordecai Paldiel to honor Aristides de Sousa Mendes in “The Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations” @YadVashem
Her sixth grade student, Max, interprets My Sister’s Eyes.
A Jew Speaks
A Jew Speaks....
When WE were led into the gas chambers, THEY said nothing.
When WE were forcibly converted, THEY said nothing.
When WE were thrown out of a country just for being Jews, THEY said nothing.
BUT when WE now defend ourselves, all of a sudden THEY have something to say.
How did WE take our revenge on the Germans for their "Final Solution?"
How did WE take revenge on the Spanish for their Inquisition?
How did WE take revenge on Islam for being Dhimmis?
How did WE take revenge on the lies of the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion?"
WE studied our Torah,
WE innovated in medicine,
WE innovated in defense systems,
WE innovated in technology,
WE innovated in agriculture,
WE composed music,
WE wrote poetry,
WE made the desert bloom,
WE won Nobel prizes,
WE founded the movie industry,
WE financed a fledgling democracy,
WE fulfilled the word of G-d by becoming a Light Unto the Nations of the Earth.
DEAR WORLD, when You criticize us for defending our heritage and our ancestral homeland -- WE, the Jews of the world, do exactly what You did to/for us; WE IGNORE YOU.
You have proven to us for the last 2,000 years that when the chips are down, animosity towards Jews reigns supreme.
Now leave us alone -- and go sort out problems in your own back yard whilst WE continue our 5778-year old mission of enhancing the world we all share.
Aristides de Sousa Mendes #UNESCO School, #Portugal
Josefa Reis, talented artist and dedicated teacher at the Aristides de Sousa Mendes UNESCO School in Carregal do Sal, Portugal, creates a tribute to the students and teachers of the Dever de Memória (Obligation to Remember) Project in Carregal do Sal. The annual report in the form of a ©Flipsnack e-book features My Sister’s Eyes: A Chronicle of Rescue and Loss During World War II .
“Life in Belgium” Le Zoute, Belgium, 1938 (Top).
”Waiting on the Coast” La Panne , Belgium, April 1939 (2nd from Top).
Mariana Abrantes, Treasurer of the Sousa Mendes Foundation, presents a class set of My Sister’s Eyes to Josefa Reis and Dores do Carmo, Administrators of the Dever de Memória (Obligation to Remember) Project.
“A thoroughly researched and intensely moving remembrance.”
Click to read: My Sister’s Eyes - Kirkus Review
#EleanorRoosevelt saved a boatload of Jewish refugees #WWII @AmericanSephard @SousaMendesFdn @cjewishhistory
JNS Jewish News Syndicate coverage of the August 11th Event
August 20, 2019
New York area friends -- did you know that in 1940 Eleanor Roosevelt saved a boatload of Jewish refugees? Come find out more at this event August 11, 2019 (film premiere and panel discussion) co-organized by the Sousa Mendes Foundation and the American Sephardi Federationon Sunday, August 11th. Hope to see you there!
Nobody Wants Us : The Story of the S.S.Quanza
Click here for: Registration Options
Read more about the event: www.sousamendesfoundation.org
@SousaMendesFdn " Journey on the Road to Freedom" Visits Figueira da Foz, #Portugal
The citizens of the charming beach town of Figueira da Foz welcomed approximately 600 refugees in 1940.
One Sousa Mendes visa recipient, and several descendants of visa recipients are pictured below with descendants of the man who saved them, Aristides de Sousa Mendes. They are joined by #Holocaust educators from Canada, the USA and Portugal.
The group is seated in front of the same Farol (lighthouse) de Santa Catarina that was the backdrop for the photo of the Krakowiak Family in 1941 (below).
"Journey on the Road to Freedom" group in Figueira da Foz, Portugal. Photo credit: Maurice Weiss, Der Spiegel - July 2019.
Hala and Ignas Krakowiak with their daughter Yvonne.
Yvonne, who was almost three years old, is seen parading around town in the Minho dress that Maria-Luisa, Alberto’s daughter had outgrown. Alberto loaned the Mardi Gras costume to Yvonne even though their would be no parade por causa da guerra in 1941.
Read the Krakowiak Family‘s story in My Sister’s Eyes: A Family Chronicle of Rescue and Loss During World War II; from their happy life in Poland through their escape from the Nazi onslaught to their arrival in New York, a journey of 1,241 days.
Available through: Amazon, IndieBound and Rakuten Kobo.
Marcel Tolkowsky - Creator of the "Brilliant" Cut Diamond - Saved by a Visa from Aristides de Sousa Mendes
100th Anniversary of the “Brilliant” Cut Diamond to be celebrated in Antwerp @TheDiamondLoupe
Read about the Tolkowsky family on the @SousaMendesFdn website
Blue Nile Diamond
Attn: #HolocaustEdu @SousaMendesFdn "Journey on the Road To Freedom"
Attn: Holocaust Educators - Follow in visa recipients' footsteps on the @SousaMendesFdn "Journey on the Road To Freedom".
Aristides de Sousa Mendes Portuguese Consul General in Bordeaux, France saved thousands of lives by issuing visas to safety in #Portugal defying the express orders of his government in June 1940.
Photo credit Maria Isabel Camacho-Santos June 28 at 5:32 PM
