Upcoming Events

May 9, 2024:  Boston

The Lappin Foundation with Former Israel Consul General to New York and Boston, Ambassador Ido Aharoni and German Consul General for New England Dr. Sonja Kreibich and surviving SS St. Louis passenger Dr. Hans Fisher 
 

May 15, 2024:  Worldwide Virtual

The Association of Jewish Libraries: Location of 
host members – Atlanta, Chicago, Cleveland, Boston, New York City, Long Island, Los Angeles, Toronto, Washington, DC.  SS St. Louis passengers Eva Wiener and Sonja Geismar will be the special guests with filmmaker Robert Krakow
 

May 21, 2024 – Hackensack, NJ

Chabad of Hackensack, NJ (Rabbi Mendy Kaminker)
with surviving St. Louis passenger Eva Wiener and filmmaker Robert Krakow
 

TBA May 2024 Atlanta

Honeymoon Israel with Consul General Anat Sultan-Dadon and filmmaker Robert Krakow
 

TBA May 2024 San Francisco

Chabad of Tiburon (Rabbi Levi Mintz)

May 2, 2023:

Saint Andrews School, Boca Raton, FL:  Robert Krakow will speak to a group of middle school teachers to discuss the story of SS St. Louis, his work as a historian and filmmaker.

Fall, 2023: Donna Klein Jewish Academy, Boca Raton, FL

The Trial of FDR.  The theater piece will be performed by the current and alumni students of DKJA for the Boca Raton community.
 
 

Past Events

March 7, 2024:  Delray Beach, Florida

Gleneagles Country Club with surviving St. Louis passengers Charles Mendel and John Shilling.  Filmmaker Robert Krakow
 

March 3, 2024:

Temple Beth Shalom, Boca Raton, Florida – 
Screening of Complicit with special guest filmmaker Robert M Krakow
 

December 3, 2023:  Boca Raton, Florida

Donna Klein Jewish Academy, Boca Raton, FL

The Trial of FDR; The theater presentation performed by the drama students of the Donna Klein Jewish Academy with special guests playwright Robert Krakow and SS St. Louis passenger John Shilling and his wife Wynne Shilling.

May 2, 2023: 

Saint Andrews School, Boca Raton, FL:  Robert Krakow will speak to a group of middle school teachers to discuss the story of SS St. Louis, his work as a historian and filmmaker. 

April 19, 2023:  Jewish Center of Princeton, Princeton, NJ

Screening of Complicit with St. Louis Passengers Eva Wiener (in person) and St. Louis passenger Sonja Geismar and filmmaker Robert Krakow (Zoom)
 

 April 18, 2023:  Centralia College – Centralia, Washington

Screening of Complicit with St. Louis passenger John Shilling and filmmaker Robert Krakow (Zoom)

 

April 14, 2023:  Saint Andrew’s School, Boca Raton, FL.

Screening of Complicit and SS St. Lous Traveling Exhibit   Guests on site included SS St Louis passenger John Shilling and author Wynne Shilling and filmmaker Robert Krakow.

January 31, 2023:  Galicia Jewish Museum in Krakow, Poland

Screening of Complicit – Zoom guests included Eva Wiener, Sonja Geismar, Judy Steel, Hans Fisher and John Shilling and filmmaker Robert Krakow.  The film was screened with Polish subtitles.
 

December 12, 2022:

Hillel Academy of Tampa, Tampa, FL – Screening of Complicit with Zoom guests SS St. Louis passengers Eva Wiener and Sonja Geismar
 

November 9, 2022:

Congregation Anshai Torah, Plano, TX – Screening of Complicit with Zoom guests Eva Wiener, Sonja Geismar, John Shilling and Hans Fisher
 
November 6, 2022:   University of Toledo, Toledo, OH
The Trial of FDR sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Great Toledo.  Guests included playwright Robert Krakow who led the post play “jury deliberation”.

July 25, 2022:  The Wiener Library and Royal Holloway University

Screening of Complicit – Guests included SS St. Louis passengers Eva Wiener, Sonja Geismar, Hans Fisher, Gisela Feldman and John Shilling and filmmaker Robert Krakow.

April 5, 2022:

Epstein Hillel School, Marblehead, MA – Screening of Complicit with Zoom guests SS St. Louis passengers Eva Wiener and Sonja Geismar

January 27, 2022:   B’nai B’rith Europe, Antwerp, Belgium

Screening of Complicit to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day.  The Zoom guests included SS St. Louis passengers Eva Wiener, Sonja Geismar, John Shilling, Hans Fisher, and filmmaker Robert Krakow and special guest on site German Ambassador to Belgium Martin Kotthaus.  The film was screened with French subtitles.

January 24, 2022:  United States Military Academy, West Point, NY

Screening of Complicit to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day.  Zoom guests included SS St. Louis passengers Eva Wiener, Sonja Geismar, Judith Steet, Hans Fisher and John Shilling and filmmaker Robert Krakow.

June 22, 2021:  South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation, Johannesburg, South Africa

Screening of Complicit with the to commemorate World Refugee Day. The Zoom guests included SS St. Louis passengers Eva Wiener, Sonja Geismar, John Shilling and filmmaker Robert Krakow.

January 27, 2022: B’nai B’rith Europe, Brussels, Belgium and HIAS, Brussels, Belgium

June 20, 2021: 

June 17, 2021: 

May 13, 2021:

May 5, 2021:

April 29, 2021: 

The Gold Hill Middle School Fort Hill, South Carolina, 7th grade classes, will host our virtual St. Louis program.  The event will include a screening of our documentary film, COMPLICT, and a post film Q&A with filmmaker Robert Krakow and 3 surviving passengers from the St. Louis.

January 26, 2020:

Chabad of George Washington University, Washington, DC, Screening of COMPLICIT with special guests Hans Fisher, Sonja Geismar, Judith Steel, Eva Wiener, surviving St. Louis passengers, Robert Krakow, filmmaker and Jonathon Krakow, Director of Research.  This program will commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz

January 15, 2020:

Chabad of S. Petersburg, S. Petersburg, Florida, Screening of COMPLICIT with special guests John Shilling, surviving SS St. Louis passenger, Robert Krakow, filmmaker and Jonathon Krakow, Director of Research

January 9, 2020:

Yiddish Club of Hunters Run Country Club, Boynton Beach, Florida, Screening of COMPLICIT

November 5, 2019:

Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA – Screening of COMPLICIT to commemorate Kristallnacht with special guest Filmmaker Robert M. Krakow and Producer Jonathon B. Krakow

October 10, 2019:

North Hill Retirement Community, Needham, MA – Screening of COMPLICIT with special guest, SS St. Louis passenger Hans Fisher

September 11-15, 2019:

Swan Theatre, Santa Fe, NM – Theater Production of The False Witness:  The Trial of Humanity’s Conscience with special guests, playwright Robert M. Krakow and creative director, Jonathon B. Krakow

August 15, 2019:

Documentary Film Premiere, The National Jewish Retreat, Washington, DC  – The False Witness:  The Trial of Humanity’s Conscience with special guests, Filmmaker Robert M. Krakow and Producer Jonathon B. Krakow

August 7, 2019:

Temple Israel, Sharon, MA – Screening of COMPLICIT with special guest, SS St. Louis passenger Hans Fisher

May 28, 2019:

Chabad of the Upper East Side, New York, NY – Screening of COMPLICIT to commemorate the 80th Anniversary of the Voyage of the SS St. Louis with special guests, 3 SS St. Louis passengers, UN Ambassadors from Argentina and Costa Rica, Filmmaker Robert M. Krakow

May 15, 2019:

Jewish Federation of Volusia and Flagler Counties, Ormond Beach, FL – Screening of COMPLICIT

May 14, 2019:

Chabad of Fleming Island, Fleming Island, FL – Screening of COMPLICIT to commemorate the 80th Anniversary of the Voyage of the SS St. Louis with special guests, Filmmaker Robert M. Krakow and Producer Jonathon B. Krakow

May 13, 2019:

Chabad of S Augustine, S Augustine, FL – Screening of COMPLICIT to commemorate the 80th Anniversary of the Voyage of the SS St. Louis with special guests, Filmmaker Robert M. Krakow and Producer Jonathon B. Krakow

May 1, 2019:

Temple Sinai of Hollywood, Hollywood, FL – Screening of COMPLICIT to commemorate Yom HaShoah with special guest, Robert M. Krakow, creator/producer and producer, Jonathon B. Krakow

April 29, 2019:

St. Andrews Country Club, Boca Raton, FL – Screening of COMPLICIT to commemorate Yom HaShoah and the 80th Anniversary of the Voyage of the SS St. Louis with special guests, SS St. Louis passenger Herbert Karliner and Filmmaker Robert M. Krakow

March 31, 2019:

Center Communities of Brookline, Brookline, MA – Screening of COMPLICIT with special guest, SS St. Louis passenger Hans Fisher

March 31, 2019:

Chabad of North Orlando, Orlando, FL – Screening of COMPLICIT with special guests Robert M. Krakow, creator/producer and Jonathon Krakow, director of research

March 26 & 27, 2019:

Theater presentation of The False Witness at the Countess de Hoernle Theater on the campus of Spanish River High School, Boca Raton, FL sponsored by NEXT GENERATIONS and ORT AMERICA and Title Sponsors Howard Kaye Insurance Agency and the Steve Melman Foundation

March 3, 2019:

Palm Beach Synagogue, Palm Beach, FL – Screening of COMPLICIT with special guests, Robert M. Krakow, creator/producer and Jonathon Krakow, director of researchJanuary 24, 2019: Chabad of Wesport,

January 24, 2019:

Westport, CT -Screening of COMPLICIT with special guests, SS St. Louis passengers, Judith Steel, Eva Wiener and Robert M. Krakow, creator/producer

January 15, 2019:

Ransom Everglades School, Coconut Grove, FL – SS St. Louis Docu-Drama presentation by Robert M. Krakow

December 17, 2018:

The Shul, Bal Harbour, FL – Screening of COMPLICIT with special guests SS St. Louis passenger Herbert Karliner and Robert M. Krakow, creator/producer and Jonathon Krakow, Director of Research

November 8, 2018:

The Ottawa Torah Centre Chabad, Ottawa Canada – Screening of COMPLICIT with special guests SS St. Louis passengers, Eva Wiener, Sol Messinger, Sonja Geismar, Judith Steel, Hans Fisher, Robert M. Krakow, creator/producer and Jonathon Krakow, Director of Research

November 7, 2018:

Parliament of Canada, Ottawa, Canada – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau makes a formal apology to a delegation of 6 surviving passengers of the SS St. Louis.  The delegation will include Robert M. Krakow, Executive Director of the SS St. Louis Legacy Project and Jonathon Krakow, Director of Research.  The delegation of passengers included Sonja Geismar, Judith Steel, Eva Wiener, Sol Messinger and Hans Fisher

October 21, 2018:

Congregation Shalom, North Chelmsford, MA – Screening of COMPLICIT with special guest, SS St. Louis passenger, Hans Fisher

October 15, 2018:

Chabad of Conejo, CA – Screening of COMPLICIT with special guest SS St. Louis passenger, Thomas Jacobson

July 31 – August 5, 2018:

Chabad’s National Jewish Retreat, Providence, R.I – Screening of COMPLICIT with special guests Robert M. Krakow, creator/producer, Jonathan Krakow, director of research, surviving passengers Eva Wiener and Hans Fisher, US Department of State Official Stacy B. Davis

April 29, 2018:

Sperling Kronberg Mack Holocaust Resource Center, Las Vegas, NV – Screening of COMPLICIT with special guests surviving St. Louis passenger Thomas Jacobson and Robert M. Krakow, creator/producer

April 12, 2018:

Young Israel of Kew Garden Hills, Kew Garden, NY – Screening of COMPLICIT to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day

March 24, 2018:

Rehoboth Jewish Film Festival, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware – Screening of COMPLICIT with special guest Director Michael Schwartz

November 15, 2017:

Parkland Library, Parkland, FL –  Screening of COMPLICIT with special guest Robert M. Krakow, creator/producer and SS St. Louis passenger Herbert Karliner

November 11, 2017:

Young Israel of Oceanside, Oceanside, NY – Screening of COMPICIT with special guest, Robert M. Krakow, creator of COMPLICIT and SS St. Louis passengers Sonja Geismar

November 9, 2017:

Columbia University, New York, NY – Screening of COMPLICT with special guests SS St. Louis passengers Eva Wiener and Sonja Geismar and filmmaker Robert M. Krakow

November 8, 2017:

Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo, NY – commemoration of Kristallnacht with special guest, Sol Messinger, surviving passenger from the SS St. Louis and Robert M. Krakow, creator of COMPLICIT

October 18, 2017:

University of Maryland, College Park, MD – Center for Global Migration screening of COMPLICIT with the SS St. Louis passengers Eva Wiener and Sonja Geismar and filmmaker Robert Krakow

June 22, 2017:

Kehillat Israel, Pacific Palisades, CA – Screening of COMPLICIT with special guest surviving St. Louis passenger, Thomas Jacobson

April 25, 2017:

Hadassah of Burlington, Vermont – Screening of COMPLICIT with special guest Robert Krakow and dignitaries  and public officials

April 23 and 24, 2017:

PBS WXEL-WPBT2 South Florida – Broadcast of COMPLICIT to commemorate Yom Hashoah

April 24, 2017:

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA – Yom HaShoah Commemoration, screening of COMPLICIT with special guests Judith Steel, Hans Fisher and Sonja Geismar, surviving passengers from the SS St. Louis and Robert M. Krakow, creator of COMPLICIT

April 23, 2017:

Columbus, Ohio Board of Rabbis, Columbus, OH – Yom HaShoah commemoration, screening of COMPLICIT with special guest Robert M. Krakow, creator/producer of COMPLICIT

March 3, 2017:

Arden Heights Blvd. Jewish Center, Staten Island, NY – screening of COMPLICIT

March 2, 2017:

Boca Grove Grove Country Club, Boca Raton, FL – screening of COMPLICIT with special guests, Herbert Karliner, Judith Steel and Charles Mendel, surviving passengers from the SS St. Louis and Robert M. Krakow, creator of film.

December 7, 2016:

Oceanside Jewish Center, Oceanside, NY – COMPLICIT with Robert M. Krakow and surviving SS St. Louis passenger, Judith Steel as special guests

December 4, 2016:

Hadassah Boston Northern Region – COMPLICIT with surviving SS St. Louis passenger, Dr. Hans Fisher as special guest

November 17, 2016:

Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel:  7 surviving passengers from the SS St. Louis gather at the Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations to honor the memory of captain of the St. Louis, Gustav Schroeder.

November 17, 2016:

Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel – Liat Benhabib, Director of the Visual Center accepts a copy of COMPLICIT for the Yad Vashem permanent film archives.

November 16, 2016:

Hebrew University, Jerusalem – Symposium  on SS St. Louis and the World Refugee Crisis – Screening of COMPLICIT with 7 SS St. Louis passengers leading the post film discussion.

November 15, 2016:

Knesset, Jerusalem, Israel:  7 surviving passengers from the SS St. Louis present a PROCLAMATION OF GRATITUDE AND REMEMBRANCE to Avi Dichter, Member of the Knesset.

November 10, 2016:

San Francisco Public Library – COMPLICIT

November 2, 2016:

Jewish Culture and History Club, Cascade Lakes, Boynton Beach, FL – COMPLICIT

October 20, 2016:

Jewish Congregation of New Paltz, New Paltz, NY – COMPLICIT

October 19, 2016:

Jewish Genealogical Society, Delray Beach, FL – COMPLICIT

October 15, 16 & 18, 2016:

Due Process TV, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ – Special program – WNET and NJTV on COMPLICIT hosted by Sandra King with guests Robert Krakow, Ruth Kalish and surviving SS St. Louis passenger, Eva Wiener

October 13, 2016:

Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ – COMPLICIT with Robert M. Krakow as special guest.

September 18, 2016:

Jewish Historical Society of Memphis, Memphis, TN –  COMPLICIT:  Robert M. Krakow and SS St. Louis passenger Dr. Clark Blatteis will lead the post film discussion.

September 12, 2016:

Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, Boston, MA – COMPLICIT

September 11, 2016:

AMIT – Philadelphia, PA:  Screening of COMPLICIT with Robert M. Krakow as special guest

June 15, 2016:

Vassar Temple/FDR Library – Poughkeepsie, NY – COMPLICIT

June 7, 2016:

Rowan College, Burlington, NJ – COMPLICIT

May 12, 2016:

Temple Emanu-El – East Meadow, NY – COMPLICIT

May 5, 2016:

Edmond Safra Synagogue, Manhattan, NY – COMPLICIT

May 1, 2016:

Pine Brook Jewish Center – Montville, NJ – COMPLICIT

April 10, 2016:

Cascade Chapters of ORT and Hadassah, Boynton Beach, FL – COMPLICIT

April 7 & 8, 2016:

Wynmoor Village, Coconut Creek, FL – Theatrical performance – The Trial of Franklin D. Roosevelt

February 10, 2016:

Holocaust Museum and Education Center of Southwest Florida:  COMPLICIT and SS St Louis Traveling Exhibit

January 17, 2016:

Alpert Jewish Family and Children Service, West Palm Beach, FL – Robert M. Krakow’s multi-media lecture:  US Presidents and Their Responses to Historical Jewish Predicaments

October 25, 2015:

Axelrod Performing Arts Center, Deal, NJ –  COMPLICIT

June 22, 2015:

Lappin Foundation, Temple Sinai and the JCC of the North Shore, Marblehead, MA – COMPLICIT

May 14, 2015:

Lappin Foundation and B’nai Abraham, Beverly, MA – COMPLICIT and post film discussion with surviving SS St. Louis passenger, Dr. Hans Fisher

April 16, 2015:

Shaare Shalom Congregation YOM HASHOAH PROGRAM, Brooklyn, NY – COMPLICIT

April 11 & 12, 2015:

PBS WXEL South Florida Special Event – Holocaust Days of Remembrance:  COMPLICIT followed by post film debate with Robert M. Krakow and Dr. Robert Watson, Department of History, Lynn University

February 21-23, 2015:

PBS WXEL South Florida Special Event:  COMPLICIT

November 12, 2014:

Roving Eye Film Festival – Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI – COMPLICIT

November 10, 2014:

Official Selection – Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival, Palm Beach Gardens, FL

November 1, 2014:

DUE PROCESS TV special broadcast on WNET and NJTV with Robert M. Krakow, Dr. Ruth Kalish and surviving SS St. Louis passenger Eva Wiener

October 21, 2014:

Institute for Cuban and Cuban American Studies:  University of Miami – COMPLICIT

September 21, 2014:

Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL – COMPLICIT

August 5-10, 2014:

Official Selection – Rhode Island International Film Festival, Providence, RI  (First Prize – Jewish Film Category) – COMPLICIT

August 25-27, 2014:

Official Selection – Montreal World Film Festival, Montreal, Canada – COMPLICIT

May 12, 2014:

Beth Torah Benny Rok Campus, Aventura, Florida: Ceremony to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the Voyage of the SS St. Louis.  The ceremony included the screening of COMPLICIT and the presentation of the Proclamation of Remembrance to Mayor Tomas Regalado of the City of Miami.

April 17, 2014:

Georgetown University Law School, Washington DC – COMPLICIT followed by post film discussion with Robert M. Krakow and Georgetown University Law Professor Andrew Schoenholtz, Director of the Human Rights Institute for Georgetown Law Center

March 23-25, 2014:

Jewish International Film Festival of Sydney and Melbourne, Australia – COMPLICIT

May 6, 8, 20, 22, 23, 2013:

Movies of Delray, Delray Beach, FL Premiere of documentary film: COMPLICIT, the untold story of why the Roosevelt Administration denied safe haven to Jewish Refugees

April 8, 2013:

Ramaz School, New York City, The Trial of Franklin D Roosevelt: Docu-Drama Presentation, Holocaust Remembrance Observance

April 7, 2013:

Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, New York City, The Trial of Franklin D Roosevelt: Docu-Drama Presentation, Yom HaShoah-Holocaust Remembrance Observance

January 13, 2013

Valencia Palms, Boynton Beach, Florida, The Story of the SS St Louis, Docu-Drama Presentation

November 7, 2012

Congregation Agudath Sholom, Stamford, Connecticut, The Trial of FDR: A Courtroom Drama, The 74th Anniversary of Kristallnacht

September 24, 2012:

US Department of State, Washington DC, Ceremony honoring the survivors of the SS St Louis, Special address to the survivors by Deputy Secretary of State Williams Burns

September 24, 2012:

US Department of State, Washington DC, – The Trial of Franklin D. Roosevelt with special guest playwright Robert Krakow

April 19, 2012:

Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, Yom HaShoah-Holocaust Remembrance Observance

January 29, 2012:

Boca Pointe Country Club, Boca Raton, Florida, The Story of the SS St Louis: Docu-Drama Presentation with special guest Robert Krakow

October 18, 2011:

Georgetown University, Washington DC, Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service, Program for Jewish Civilization, The Voyage of the SS St Louis and its Impact on the Roosevelt Legacy with special guests surviving St. Louis passenger Herbert Karliner, playwright Robert Krakow and State Department official Stacy Davis

December 12, 13, 14, 2009:

Miami Beach, Florida – 70th Anniversary Reunion of the Voyage of the SS St. Louis with 33 surviving passengers attending.  The passengers gathered at the location where they had been refused safe haven 70 years before.  Richard Hunt from the National Archives was there to accept Senate Resolution 111 signed by all 33 surviving passengers.  Director Hunt told the audience that the document which commemorated the 70th Anniversary of the St. Louis, would be placed in the same casings as George Washington’s Inaugural Address

SS St Louis Legacy Project Foundation
6019 Boca Colony Drive #215
Boca Raton, FL 33433
Phone : 561-703-1080
Email : krakow@bellsouth.net

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