The extraordinary Legacy of Aristides de Sousa Mendes has been replicated by the life's work of many of the people he saved, like Jean-Claude van Italie.
Even though we are far away in Angelina's village in central Portugal, we are pleased to read of the work of the Shantigar Foundation which is devoted to the practices of meditation, theater of sacred intent, and engagement with nature—and discovering where these practices meet.
Shantigar Foundation is continuing the work of its founder Jean-Claude van Italie,1936-2021,
an ASM visa recipient who was only
4-years old when he and his
family received life-saving visas to Portugal from Aristides de Sousa
Mendes, and thus were able to leave France one step ahead of the invaders.
Jean-Claude
recorded a testimonial about his family’s flight from France to Portugal and beyond
which can be seen in http://sousamendesfoundation.org/family/brunell-levy-van-itallie.
"Jean-Claude van Itallie, born in Brussels, Belgium, fled
the Holocaust with his family. He was raised in Great Neck, New York and
attended Harvard University. In the early 1960s, Jean-Claude’s work was seminal
in the revolutionary new theater in Greenwich Village. He was one of LaMama’s
first playwrights and served as playwright-of-the-ensemble for Joe Chaikin's
Open Theater, with whom he wrote The Serpent.
In 1977,
Jean-Claude invited his Tibetan Buddhist teacher, Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche,
to retreated at his farm in Western Massachusetts to write his
renowned Shambala teachings. Trungpa renamed the farm,
"Shantigar," which means "Peaceful Home." Jean-Claude
subsequently turned Shantigar into a not-for-profit foundation."
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