Honoring Yvonne's Memory

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Subsequent to her first trip to Portugal with the Sousa Mendes Foundation’s “Journey on the Road to Freedom” in June 2013, Joan begins her own journey to discover her sister Yvonne’s fate.

This video (below) captures the first step in honoring Yvonne’s memory, a visit to Jamaica, WI, where the David Matelon and Ainsley Henriques, leaders of the Jewish community of Kingston, arrange for Joan to enter the Orange Street Cemetery and then restore Yvonne’s grave stone.

Locating Yvonne's Grave found desecrated.

Kaddish Over Yvonne's grave at Orange Street Cemetery, Kingston, JA November 2016

This video (above) captures the first reciting of Kaddish over Yvonne’s grave which took place thanks to the participants who attended the Gibraltar Camp Reunion organized by Prof. Diane Cooper-Clark in November of 2016. Gibraltar Camp 1942