Vancouver Raoul Wallenberg Day - All Events

2G = Second Generation Group     VHEC = Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre

 

Date

Description

Main Speakers

Location

Sponsors

2024-01-21

Wartime Civil Courage in Scandinavia
+ Film “Passage to Sweden”
Tore Jørgensen,
Norman Gladstone
Beth Israel Synagogue WSCCS

2023-01-22

Honouring The Joint Distribution Committee, and its courageous support for Ukrainian refugees
+ Films “Fridtjof Nansen” (2), & “JDC Ukraine Crisis”
Marina Sonkina,
Gary Segal
Beth Israel Synagogue WSCCS
2022-04-10 Presentation “Saluting the Courage of Frontline Healthcare Providers”
+ Film “Zero to Zero” on battling COVID-19

Judith Anderson, Dr Ramneek Dosanjh,

Sherri Kensall,
Barb Nederpel

Beth Israel Synagogue WSCCS

2021-01-17

Presentation “Civil Courage in Journalism Today”
incl 2 films: “A Dark Place” & “Mohamed Fahmy: Half Free”
Arzu Geybulla,
Javier Luque,
Robert Hackett
Online WSCCS

2020-01-19

Film “Persona Non Grata:  The Story of Chiune Sugihara”

George Bluman,
Alan Le Fevre

HR MacMillan Space Centre – Auditorium

WSCCS

2019-01-20

Civil Courage Award to
Mary Kitagawa
+ Film “The War Between Us”

Judith Anderson,
Mary Kitagawa,
Alan Le Fevre

HR MacMillan Space Centre – Auditorium

WSCCS

2018-01-14

Civil Courage Award to
Alayne Fleischmann
(in absentia)
+ Film: “Matt Taibbi and “The $9 Billion Witness” Who Exposed How JPMorgan Chase Helped Wreck the Economy”

Ana Policzer,
The Honourable Ujjal Dosanjh,
Alan Le Fevre

HR MacMillan Space Centre – Auditorium

WSCCS

2017-01-15

Presentation by
Doctors without Borders
+ Film “Access to the Danger Zone”

Jan Nordin,
Dr Joseph Copeland

HR MacMillan Space Centre – Auditorium

WSCCS

2016-01-17

Civil Courage Award to
Chief Dr Robert Joseph
+ Film “Carl Lutz: The Forgotten Hero”

Deborah Ross-Grayman,
Henry Grayman,
Heather Deal,
Chief Dr. Robert Joseph

JCC – Wosk Auditorium

WSCCS

2015-01-18

Civil Courage Award to
Ujjal Dosanjh
+ Film “The Rescuers” on
thirteen diplomats in Europe

Deborah Ross-Grayman,
Henry Grayman,
Andrea Reimer,
Ujjal Dosanjh,
Lt Gov Judith Guichon

JCC – Wosk Auditorium

WSCCS

2014-01-19

Film Nicky's Family on Englishman,
Sir Nicholas Winton

Deborah Ross-Grayman,
Henry Grayman,
Gregor Robertson,
Thomas Gradin,
Rupert Potter,
Naomi Taussig

JCC – Norman Rothstein Theatre

WSCCS

2013-01-20

Film The Budapest Angel
on Spanish Consul,
Ángel Sanz Briz

Enrique Manchon, Anders Neumuller

VanCity Theatre

Swedish Consul, 2G, VHEC

2012-01-15

Film The Visas That Saved Lives on Japanese Consul,
Chiune Sugihara

George Bluman, Hideki Ito,
Anders Neumuller

VanCity Theatre

Swedish Consul, 2G, VHEC

2011-01-16

Film Désobéir on Portuguese Consul,
Aristides de Sousa Mendes

Eva Kero, Geoff Meggs, Carlos de Sousa Amaro, Anders Neumuller

VanCity Theatre

Swedish Consul, 2G, VHEC

2010-01-17

Talk Raoul Wallenberg, Righteous among the Nations: Lessons for our Time by Irwin Cotler

Irwin Cotler, Anders Neumuller

JCC – Wosk Auditorium

Swedish Consul, 2G, VHEC

2009-01-17

Film Wallenberg:
A Hero's Story

Gabriella Klein, Anders Neumuller

VanCity Theatre

Swedish Consul, 2G, VHEC

2008-01-20

Film The Black Pimpernel on Swedish Consul in Chile, Harald Edelstam

Ana Policzer, Anders Neumuller

VanCity Theatre

Swedish Consul, 2G, VHEC

2007-01-21

Film Good Evening
Mr Wallenberg"

Anders Neumuller

VanCity Theatre

Swedish Consul, 2G

2006-01-29

20th Anniversary Commemoration of
Raoul Wallenberg Plaque

Gabriella Klein, Peter Ladner, André Molnar, Anders Neumuller

Queen Elizabeth Park –Quarry

Swedish Consul, 2G

 

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