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Some past addresses by Pierre Sauvage:

The Challenge To Us of Holocaust Rescuers
Did Americans Fight the Holocaust?
America and the Holocaust: Varian Fry and Peter Bergson

These lectures can be illustrated by excerpts from the following documentaries by Pierre Sauvage:

Weapons of the Spirit—30th-anniversary edition
(1989/90-2020)
Yiddish: the Mame-Loshn
("the mother tongue") 1979-2020)
We Were There: Christians and the Holocaust (2020)
excerpts from the work-in-progress And Crown Thy Good: Varian Fry and the Refugee Crisis, 1940-1941

Public appearances are often in conjunction with full screenings of the above films.

Pending and recent public appearances

April 27, 2011
Fairfield University, Connecticut
Holocaust Commemoration Program multimedia lecture
A Time For Rescue: America and the Holocaust

March 24, 2011
Columbia University conference on
The Rescue of Jews in France and Its Empire During World War II
5pm, East Gallery, Buell Hall (open to the public)

January 18, 2011
University of California Santa Barbara: America and the Holocaust

2010 listing pending

2009 (update pending)
University of Northern Iowa: The Challenge To Us of Holocaust Rescuers
Association of Holocaust Organizations convention: Peter Bergson, America and the Holocaust
Temple Valley Beth Shalom, Encino, CA: Peter Bergson, America and the Holocaust
Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival: Peter Bergson, America and the Holocaust
American Jewish University, Los Angeles, CA: Peter Bergson, America and the Holocaust
Yom Hashoah/Holocaust Commemoration address, 2009, Dayton, Ohio
Sinclair Community College and Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio

2008
Lessons & Legacies conference: America and the Holocaust: What's Wrong With This Picture?
Kristallnacht commemoration address, Keene, New Hampshire
Keene State College: day-long workshop on Weapons of the Spirit
Middlebury College
Yom Hashoah/Holocaust Commemoration address, 2008
University of Wisconsin at Madison: Mildred Fish-Harnack Lecture
Penn State University

About Pierre Sauvage
Texts and addresses by Pierre Sauvage

Pierre Sauvage's preferred honorarium is in the form of a contribution to the nonprofit Chambon Foundation.
 Contacts for past appearances provided upon request.
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