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Holocaust Memory/Kristallnacht Commemoration (In Person & Online) Fragments of Memory: Lost Notebooks of Children’s Testimonies from the Holocaust
Nov 10, 2025 6:00PM—8:00PM
222-05 56th Avenue Bayside, NY 11364
RegisterEvent Cosponsored by HHREC Register to watch online: https://tinyurl.com/bdctyu6fRegister to attend in person: https://tinyurl.com/2k4d5jhs In 1945, a group of survivors in the Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons Camp opened several schools for the growing number of orphaned and displaced children at the camp. To help their young charges heal, the teachers encouraged them to write and speak…
View MoreThe Vatican Archives, The Holocaust, and Its Aftermath – Kristallnacht Commemoration Presented by HHREC and Iona University
Nov 10, 2025 7:30PM—9:00PM
Iona University Spellman Hall, Burke Lounge, 715 North Ave, New Rochelle, NY 10801
An expert panel of scholars from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum will discuss the latest findings from the Vatican Archives during the period of Pope Pius XII (1939-1958).
View MoreKHC-NEH Lecture (In Person & Online) Deciding Who Was Worth Saving: American Universities and the Refugee Scholars of the Nazi Era
Nov 12, 2025 12:00PM—2:00PM
222-05 56th Avenue Bayside, NY 11364
RegisterEvent Cosponsored by HHREC Register to watch online: https://tinyurl.com/y5fab4btRegister to attend in person: https://tinyurl.com/2pn52zu8 Despite the triumphalist tale that during the Nazi era the United States rescued Europe’s intellectual elite, including Albert Einstein and Enrico Fermi, Hannah Arendt and Herbert Marcuse, thousands of European scholars sought to immigrate to the United States and couldn’t. American…
View MoreRemembering Herman and Aryeh Ziering
Nov 12, 2025 6:00PM—8:00PM
Manhattan University O'Malley Library Alumni Room 4513 Manhattan College Pkwy, Bronx, NY 10471
HHREC Board Member and GenerationsForward Speaker Debby Ziering will share the story of her father and nephew.
View MoreMemorializing Black History: Heritage, Culture and Community at the Weeksville Heritage Center
Nov 19, 2025 12:00PM—1:00PM
222-05 56th Avenue Bayside, NY 11364
RegisterKHC Event Cosponsored by HHREC Register to watch online: https://tinyurl.com/3jnj3c7b Register to attend in person: https://tinyurl.com/ycy4dsr3 Event presented by HHREC in partnership with KHC. The Weeksville Heritage Center is a historic site and cultural center in Central Brooklyn that uses education, arts, and a social justice lens to preserve, document, and inspire engagement with the…
View MoreFlight or Fight? Artists in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945
Dec 03, 2025 12:00PM—1:00PM
222-05 56th Avenue Bayside, NY 11364
RegisterEvent presented by KHC, cosponsored by HHREC Register to watch online: https://tinyurl.com/395zxa45Register to attend in person: https://tinyurl.com/2a9azjvm Between 1933 and 1945, the National Socialist regime controlled artistic work in Germany. Join Rachel Stern, founding director of the Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted, Ostracized and Banned Art, for a discussion about the system of fear and…
View MoreHHREC Annual Spring Luncheon – SAVE THE DATE
May 14, 2026 11:30AM—1:00PM
Bet Am Shalom Synagogue 295 Soundview Ave, White Plains, NY 10606
The HHREC Annual Luncheon will feature GenerationsForward Speaker June Hersh, best-selling author of Food, Hope & Resilience; Authentic Recipes and Remarkable Stories from Holocaust Survivors, and recently published Iconic New York Jewish Food. Registration available January 2026.
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