Lisbon — Harbor of Hope
October 29
| free but registration required.11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK
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View Pavel Schnabel‘s award-winning film, Lisbon — Harbor of Hope, then join us for the discussion. The film follows several Jewish families who escaped Nazi Germany to Lisbon from 1933-38, before the outbreak of war. For those families it was still permissible to settle in Portugal, and the film interviews several of these survivors. The Sousa Mendes story is also told, through the diplomat’s son, Pedro Nuno de Sousa Mendes, who was a witness and participant in his father’s rescue action.
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THE SCHEDULE
⇒ October 27-30, watch the film Lisbon — Harbor of Hope on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register.
⇒ Sunday, October 29 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of guests. A link will be provided to all who register.
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MEET THE SPEAKERS
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Documentary filmmaker Pavel Schnabel was born in 1946 in Olomouc, Czechoslovakia and studied at the Film and Television Academy in Prague. He emigrated in 1968 and settled in Germany. Pavel Schnabel has worked for many years as a freelance director and cameraman in Germany and has been awarded several international and German prizes and nominations for his films. In addition to Lisbon — Harbor of Hope, his films include Home is Not a Place, Hommage to August Sander, and many others.
Mariana Abrantes is a Board member and the Portugal representative of the Sousa Mendes Foundation. Coming from a village in central Portugal, she studied Economics at UC-Berkeley and earned an MA from Princeton University. After training and working in Chase Manhattan Bank, she returned to Portugal, where she worked at the European Investment Bank. She also served in the Portuguese government’s Ministries of Transport and Health, and on the Boards of international investment funds and the Fulbright Commission Portugal. She is a dual Portuguese-US citizen.
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Registration for this program will close on Thursday, October 26 at 10 PM US Eastern Time. Links and instructions will be emailed to all registrants on Friday, October 27 and again on the morning of the program.
