The Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center enhances the teaching and the learning of the lessons of the Holocaust and the right of all people to be treated with dignity and respect.

Book a Holocaust Survivor Speaker Via ZOOM!

Our Speakers Bureau is comprised of Holocaust Survivors and Liberators with years of experience sharing their inspiring stories of survival. Host a Holocaust Survivor or Liberator at your school, organization, or company today.

Educating our Future

Working to enhance the teaching and learning of the lessons of the Holocaust, to promote the right of all people to be treated with dignity and respect, and to encourage students to speak up and act against all forms of bigotry and prejudice.

Book List for Young Readers

Books often facilitate conversations about the Holocaust. It can be challenging to find an appropriate selection, and the titles listed below for some recent publications may help you.

Generations Forward

GenerationsForward is composed of second- and third-generation Holocaust survivors. They attended an intensive, 18 week program designed to enable them to tell another person's story in an impactful manner.

Our Orphan Scroll

HHREC Annual Fall Benefit 2022

The HHREC community will gather once again for our Annual Benefit on Thursday evening October 27th at the beautiful Westchester Country Club in Rye, New York. This year we are honoring Dennis Mehiel, and our Keynote Speaker is Bret Stephens, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and columnist with the New York Times.

HHREC Annual Benefit 2022 

Westchester Country Club

Rye, New York

Photo credits: Julie Rothschild

We Lived on Miracles- Stories of Holocaust Survivors

The German International School New York has published a unique and powerful book for children grades 4 through 9 that can be read in either English or German. We invite you to download and read this book of passages by Holocaust Survivors which include spellbinding stories from our HHREC Survivors Speakers Bureau.

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HHREC Promotes Education Program to Combat Rising Hate Crimes in Schools

Media Covers HHREC Executive Director Appearance with Westchester County Executive on International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center Supper Seminar Series Story in Jewish Link Publication

Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center Offers Annual Middle School Institute Program for Area Students

Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center Announces New Staff

Chappaqua Middle School Teacher Shares Insight From HHREC Trip: Summer Travels Amplify History of the Holocaust

HHREC Annual Benefit to Honor Dennis Mehiel, Feature Pulitzer-Prize Winning Journalist Bret Stephens as Keynote Speaker

Teachers From Westchester and Across the U.S. Attend HHREC Summer Educators’ Tour of Germany and Poland       

HHREC Executive Director Quoted in News Story on New York Law To Survey Schools on How They Teach About Holocaust

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