Key to sponsors: WSCCS = Civil Courage Society 2G = Second Generation Group VHEC = Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre
January 19, 2025
Civil Courage Award to Corey Levine + Film “Left Behind” on Courageous Rescue from Afghanistan.
Speakers: Corey Levine,
Gulalai Mohammadi,
Elizabeth May
Location: Peretz Centre
Sponsor(s): WSCCS
January 24, 2024
Wartime Civil Courage in Scandinavia + Film “Passage to Sweden”
Speakers: Tore Jørgensen,
Norman Gladstone
Location: Beth Israel Synagogue
Sponsor(s): WSCCS
January 22, 2023
Honouring The Joint Distribution Committee, and its courageous support for Ukrainian refugees + Films “Fridtjof Nansen” (2), & “JDC Ukraine Crisis”
Speakers: Marina Sonkina,
Gary Segal
Location: Beth Israel Synagogue
Sponsor(s): WSCCS
April 10, 2022
Honouring The Joint Distribution Committee, and its courageous support for Ukrainian refugees + Films “Fridtjof Nansen” (2), & “JDC Ukraine Crisis”
Speakers: Marina Sonkina,
Gary Segal
Location: Beth Israel Synagogue
Sponsor(s): WSCCS
January 17, 2021
Presentation “Civil Courage in Journalism Today”
including 2 films: “A Dark Place” & “Mohamed Fahmy: Half Free”
Speakers: Arzu Geybulla,
Javier Luque,
Robert Hackett
Location: Online
Sponsor(s): WSCCS
January 19, 2020
Film “Persona Non Grata: The Story of Chiune Sugihara”
Speakers: George Bluman, Alan Le Fevre
Location: HR MacMillan Space Centre – Auditorium
Sponsor(s): WSCCS
January 20, 2019
Civil Courage Award to Mary Kitagawa + Film “The War Between Us”
Speakers: Judith Anderson,
Mary Kitagawa, Alan Le Fevre
Location: HR MacMillan Space Centre – Auditorium
Sponsor(s): WSCCS
January 14, 2018
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”
Speakers: Ana Policzer, The Honourable Ujjal Dosanjh, Alan Le Fevre
Location: HR MacMillan Space Centre – Auditorium
Sponsor(s): WSCCS
January 15, 2017
Presentation by
Doctors without Borders + Film “Access to the Danger Zone”
Speakers: Jan Nordin, Dr Joseph Copeland
Location: HR MacMillan Space Centre – Auditorium
Sponsor(s): WSCCS
January 17, 2016
Civil Courage Award to Chief Dr Robert Joseph + Film “Carl Lutz: The Forgotten Hero”
Speakers: Deborah Ross-Grayman, Henry Grayman, Heather Deal, Chief Dr. Robert Joseph
Location: JCC – Wosk Auditorium
Sponsor(s): WSCCS
January 14, 2015
Civil Courage Award to Ujjal Dosanjh + Film “The Rescuers” on thirteen diplomats in Europ
Speakers: Deborah Ross-Grayman, Henry Grayman, Andrea Reimer, Ujjal Dosanjh,
Lt Gov Judith Guichon
Location: JCC – Wosk Auditorium
Sponsor(s): WSCCS
January 19, 2014
Film “Nicky's Family”on Englishman,
Sir Nicholas Winton
Speakers: Deborah Ross-Grayman, Henry Grayman, Gregor Robertson, Thomas Gradin, Rupert Potter, Naomi Taussig
Location: JCC – Norman Rothstein Theatre
Sponsor(s): WSCCS
January 20, 2013
Film “The Budapest Angel” on Spanish Consul, Ángel Sanz Briz
Speakers: Enrique Manchon, Anders Neumuller
Location: VanCity Theatre
Sponsor(s): Swedish Consul, 2G, VHEC
January 15, 2012
Film “The Visas That Saved Lives” on Japanese Consul,
Chiune Sugihara
Speakers: George Bluman, Hideki Ito, Anders Neumulle
Location: VanCity Theatre
Sponsor(s): Swedish Consul, 2G, VHEC
January 16, 2011
Film “Désobéir” on Portuguese Consul, Aristides de Sousa Mendes
Speakers: Eva Kero, Geoff Meggs, Carlos de Sousa Amaro, Anders Neumuller
Location: VanCity Theatre
Sponsor(s): Swedish Consul, 2G, VHEC
January 27, 2010
Talk “Raoul Wallenberg, Righteous among the Nations: Lessons for our Time” by Irwin Cotler
Speakers: Irwin Cotler, Anders Neumuller
Location: JCC – Wosk Auditorium
Sponsor(s): Swedish Consul, 2G, VHEC
January 17, 2009
Film “Wallenberg: A Hero's Story”
Speakers: Gabriella Klein, Anders Neumuller
Location: VanCity Theatre
Sponsor(s): Swedish Consul, 2G, VHEC
January 20, 2008
Film “The Black Pimpernel” on Swedish Consul in Chile, Harald Edelstam
Speakers: Ana Policzer, Anders Neumuller
Location: VanCity Theatre
Sponsor(s): Swedish Consul, 2G, VHEC
January 21, 2007
Film “Good Evening Mr Wallenberg
Speakers: Anders Neumuller
Location: VanCity Theatre
Sponsor(s): Swedish Consul, 2G
January 29, 2006
20th Anniversary Commemoration of
Raoul Wallenberg Plaqu
Speakers: Gabriella Klein, Peter Ladner, André Molnar, Anders Neumuller
Location: Queen Elizabeth Park –Quarry
Sponsor(s): Swedish Consul, 2G
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