KHC-NEH Lecture – Virtual Finding Home: Exploring the Cuban Jewish Experience in the Caribbean and the US

Oct 30, 2024 12:00PM—1:00PM

Zoom

Join us for a rich and powerful conversation surrounding Cuba’s long Jewish history with Dr. Ruth Behar, a cultural anthropologist and published children’s book author who has spent her career studying and sharing her own personal experience navigating her identity as a Cuban Jew. The discussion will encompass the ways in which Jewish immigrants reckoned…

Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center Annual Benefit

Oct 30, 2024 6:30PM—9:30PM

Westchester Country Club 99 Biltmore Avenue, Rye, New York 10580

The HHREC Annual Benefit will be held on Wednesday, October 30th starting at 6:30pm at Westchester Country Club in Rye, New York. The honorees are R. Derek Black, author of the book, THE KLANSMAN’S SON: MY JOURNEY FROM WHITE NATIONALISM TO ANTIRACISM, and Elisha Wiesel, Philanthropist, Chairman of the Board of the Elie Wiesel Foundation…

HHREC MemoryKeeper Story Hour: Renee Pessin

Nov 13, 2024 7:00PM—8:00PM

Zoom

Renee Bronner Pessin will appear on Zoom to share her story as a descendant of two Holocaust survivors. Renee’s mother Helen was the only survivor of her immediate and extended family of more than 50 people In Poland. Her father Sam, along with one brother were the only survivors of their large immediate and extended…

HHREC MemoryKeeper Story Hour: Max Friedman

Dec 11, 2024 7:00PM—8:00PM

Zoom

Max Friedman’s parents were Polish/Jewish Holocaust survivors who met in Sweden (where he and his sister were born) after their liberation from Bergen-Belsen. Max will tell the story of how his parents survived five years of ghettos, slave labor and concentration camps and the loss of everyone and everything they had ever loved. Emigrating to…

HHREC International Educators’ Study Tour of Germany and Poland 2025

Jun 20, 2025—Jul 06, 2025

Berlin and Warsaw, Germany and Krakow, Poland