Virtual film and discussion: Persona Non Grata, The Story of Chiune Sugihara
Sousa Mendes Foundation Presents
Virtual film and discussion: Persona Non Grata, The Story of Chiune Sugihara
You’re invited to join us for an online film-and-discussion event about the award-winning feature film Persona Non Grata by Cellin Gluck and starring Toshiaki Karasawa as the Holocaust rescuer Chiune “Sempo” Sugihara. Pre-registration is required Registration will close on Thursday, May 14 at 10 p.m. US Eastern Time.
About the Panelists
Award-winning filmmaker Cellin Gluck was born in Wakayama, Japan to American parents — a Jewish New Yorker father and a Japanese-American mother from California (via wartime “relocation” in Rohwer, AK). Believing that his greatest asset is his multicultural upbringing, Cellin knows that his own “composition” gives him an innate sensibility for things both Eastern and Western — allowing him to bridge cultures visually, viscerally, artistically and emotionally.
Dr. Mordecai Paldiel headed the Righteous Among the Nations Department at Yad Vashem from 1982-2007. His books include The Path of the Righteous, Sheltering the Jews, Saving the Jews, Diplomat Heroes of the Holocaust, Saving One’s Own: Jewish Rescuers During the Holocaust and The Righteous Among the Nations. He currently teaches at Stern College and Touro College and serves on the Board of the Sousa Mendes Foundation.
