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The Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center hosted their 8th Annual Human Rights Institute for Middle School Student Leaders on November 15th, 16th and 17th at Congregation Emanu-El of Westchester in Rye, New York. Students and teachers from thirty public and private middle schools in the Lower Hudson-Westchester region attended. HHREC staff and area middle…

The Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center (HHREC) of White Plains, NY has appointed Jeanne Claire Cotnoir and Deborah Boxer Minchin as Coordinators of Student Programming. Cotnoir and Minchin will work with HHREC Co-Directors of Education Steve Goldberg and Julie Scallero on education programs, including the Human Rights Institutes for Student Leaders, Living History Project,…

Laurie Lichtenstein, a teacher at Seven Bridges Middle School in Chappaqua, and a new member of the HHREC Educators’ Program Committee, participated in the Summer 2022 Educators’ Trip to Germany and Poland. Read her informative and insightful article that appeared recently in MiddleWeb.

The Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center (HHREC) will honor Westchester County Business Executive Dennis Mehiel and feature Pulitzer-Prize Winning Journalist Bret Stephens as Keynote Speaker at their annual Benefit on Thursday, October 27th starting at 6:30pm at the Westchester Country Club in Rye, New York. Dennis Mehiel, formerly a twenty-year Westchester County resident, is…

Social studies and English teachers from Westchester County joined with others from across the U.S. for the Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center (HHREC) Educators’ Study Tour of Holocaust museums and historic sites in Germany and Poland this summer. Co-Director of Education Steve Goldberg and professional tour guide Gerrit Book led a two-week series of…

New York is launching a survey to ensure all public schools are adequately teaching about the Holocaust, according to a new law signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul last Wednesday, August 9th. Read the article here that includes a quote from our Executive Director Millie Jasper.

White Plains, NY July 28th, 2022– The Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center  (HHREC) of White Plains, NY has announced that Leah Eisenberg has joined their Board of Directors. Eisenberg is a partner in Mayer Brown, a New York City Law firm, and she is a member of the firm’s Restructuring practice. Leah’s practice focuses…

The Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center (HHREC) recently held their annual Genocide Awareness Student Contest in commemoration of April as Genocide Awareness and Prevention month. This event invited students to create an original project in visual arts, poetry, music, or other media of artistic expression that commemorates an aspect of a genocide which occurred…

Purchase College State University of New York and the the Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center (HHREC) co-sponsored a screening of a documentary film and talk with Executive Producer Nancy Spielberg on April 26th at the Humanities Theater on the campus of Purchase College. Attendees watched the screening of the film Who Will Write our…