On Thursday, January 27th, Westchester County Executive George Latimer was joined by HHREC Executive Director MIllie Jasper and Westchester Jewish Council CEO Elliot Forchheimer to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The United Nations General Assembly designated January 27—the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau—as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. On this annual day of commemoration, the UN urges…

The Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center (HHREC) will host the second annual White Rose Student Research Contest for 2022. This competition is open to 7th-12th grade students in the greater Westchester County NY area. The 2021/2022 contest theme is Auschwitz and the Hungarian Deportations.  Participating students who compete in the project will submit essays…

HHREC will host a Book Talk on March 8th starting at 7pm with Glenn Kurtz, author of Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film. This book was named a best book of 2014 by NPR, The New Yorker, and The Boston Globe, and it has become a documentary. The story continues to…

How do you decide what facts to include in a history textbook? How do the facts not included change the narrative? How do you tackle teaching the topic of the Holocaust? A diverse group of teachers from Westchester County grappled with these issues and more during a recent day-long educational seminar hosted by the Holocaust…

Thank you to our friends at the Westchester Magazine including June Hersh, the author of this profoundly powerful and timely article, as we prepare for our commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27th.

We were very pleased at the tremendous response from area schools to our 7th annual Middle School Institute, as our Co-Director of Education Julia Scallero worked closely together with them on this program to promote awareness of human rights issues and help empower students to take action in their schools. A special thank you to our good…

The Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center will offer their annual Middle School Institute online on Tuesday, November 16th, Wednesday, November 17th and Thursday, November 18th, 2021. This educational program provides area students and teachers an opportunity to promote awareness of human rights issues and empowers them to take action in their schools. This year,…

October 15, 2021– The Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center (HHREC), a nonprofit organization that offers education programs in partnership with local schools to enhance the teaching and learning of the lessons of the Holocaust, has received a Rescued Holocaust Sefer Torah from the Yorktown Jewish Center. The HHREC will safeguard it at their library…

The Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center of White Plains, NY has announced that Rachel Greenspan has joined their Board of Directors. Greenspan is Senior Director at GHP Office Realty, where she focuses on Sales, Acquisitions and Financing of GHP’s commercial portfolio throughout the greater Westchester area. Since her start at the company two years ago,…

The HHREC Annual Fall Benefit will feature our keynote speaker Scott Shay, Founder and Chairman of Signature Bank, as we gather with our friends and colleagues to honor Andrew M. Greenspan, Principal, GHP Office Realty on October 28th at Westchester Country Club in Rye, New York. Scott was a founder and has been Chairman of…