THE IRWF AND THE JCC MANHATTAN PRESENT SAVIORS ON THE SCREEN, MAY 1-3, 2011
Saviors on the Screen, a special Films Series dedicated to the rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust presented by the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation and the JCC Manhattan will take place on May 1-3, 2011.
Started in 2006 following an initiative of the IRWF, Saviors on the Screen is organized annually to commemorate Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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RECOGNITION OF RESCUERS FROM BERLIN
Cases of rescuers from Berlin Paul and Helene Pissarius and Hannah Sotschek and her daughter Eva Cassirer, researched and documented by the IRWF, gain official recognition of Yad Vashem.
Last month, two cases that were researched and documented by the IRWF, have gained the official recognition of Yad Vashem. The cases in question are those of rescuers from Berlin, Paul and Helene (Leni) Pissarius who for more than two years sheltered Ernst Joseph and his parents in their Berlin home; and that of Hannah Sotschek and her grown-up daughter Eva Cassirer who sheltered Mrs. Elisabeth Joseph (born Jacoby).
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THE IRWF HONORS RESCUERS OF PAST AND PRESENT
The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation, Casa Argentina en Israel – Tierra Santa and the Spanish Speaking Friends of the Tel-Aviv University are presenting a special program on May 6, 2011 in commemoration of Yom Hashoah. The program will start with a lecture by the internationally acclaimed journalist Henrique Cymerman, and the presentation of the film-interview Juanito. Juanito tells the remarkable story of Dr. Zalman Shiffer and his “brother” Juanito, which the IRWF has researched and documented in 2010. After the short intermission a special Ceremony of Honoring Sandra Samuel will take place. Sandra Samuel saved the life of two-year-old Moshe Holtzberg in the terrorist attack that took place in Mumbai during the November of 2008.
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AUSTRALIA PM BECOMES HONORARY MEMBER OF THE WALLENBERG FOUNDATION
Julia Gillard, Australian Prime Minister, is a new Member of the Wallenberg Foundation’s Honorary Board. Through a letter, Gillard states that she looks forward to supporting the work of the educational NGO and that the Australian Government is committed to remembering the Holocaust and honouring its heroes and victims.
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In the press
THE SPLITTING OF THE SEA, 1943
An aging righteous gentile recalls ferrying Danish Jews to freedom from the Nazis.
By Jonathan Mark-Associate Editor
If God had divided the sea for us, even if we didn’t pass through on dry land, it would have been enough, Dayenu. Perhaps the Haggadah was thinking of 1943, when the sea split yet again, this time the choppy and icy waters of the Oeresund separating Denmark and Sweden, through which more than 7,000 Jews escaped the Nazis in row boats and fishing boats rather than on dry land, but no less miraculous for that.
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