This film screening is presented by the Iona University Driscoll Professorship in Jewish-Catholic Studies and the Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center. The film tells the story of how a frail YMCA employee fed, sheltered and led an evacuation of 350,000 people from the port city of Smyrna, which became Ground Zero for one of…

Presentation and Q&A With Steven Goldberg Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center Director of Education Steven Goldberg will speak about the History of Antisemitism and engage in a Q&A with attendees following his talk and presentation.

William is member of Second Generation, the son of Polish Jews who survived the hardships and trauma of the Nazi era. His parents met and were married in Belgium shortly after the war and came to America in 1950. William was born in the Bronx in 1951, grew up in Queens, attended college in Manhattan…

“The Jewish Refugees Whose Intelligence Helped Win the War: Camp Ritchie and Its Graduates” Professor David Frey, Professor of History and Founding Director of the Stewart and Lynda Resnick Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies, West Point, will speak at this annual Holocaust Remembrance Lecture presented by Purchase College and the Holocaust & Human Rights…

The Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center and Iona College-William H. Donat Shoah Commemoration with distinguished lecturer Dr. Deborah Dwork, founding director of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and is distinguished professor of Holocaust History at Clark University.  Dr. Dwork will discuss “Holding on Through Letters: Jewish Families During the Holocaust.” This…

Henri Parens escaped from the Holocaust at the age of 12, and went on to become a globally recognized psychoanalyst, dedicating his life’s work to the prevention of prejudice. ZAIDA, the documentary film about his life, made by his granddaughter, has reached audiences across the country, screening at The Chagrin Documentary Film Festival, The Boston Jewish Film Festival, Indy…

Yonat Assayag is the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, Helen Gottesman (née Klein) and Alex Gottesman. Yonat tells the story of her grandmother Helen, who she adoringly called “Bobby.” Bobby was born in Strobochova, Czechoslovakia in 1924, where she and her family lived comfortably until the Nazi occupation in 1939. Yonat shares how, at 16, Bobby…

The Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center invites teachers and anyone interested in learning about the history of the Holocaust to join us for our National Educators’ Trip to Germany & Poland June 24-July 9, 2023. Join Steve Goldberg, HHREC Director of Education and Gerrit Book, professional tour guide formerly of the Goethe Institut on…

The HHREC community will gather once again for our Annual Benefit on Thursday evening October 26th at the beautiful Westchester Country Club in Rye, New York.  Cost and details to be announced.