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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
RegisterJoin 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…
View MoreHolocaust & Human Rights Education Center Annual Benefit
Oct 30, 2024 6:30PM—9:30PM
Westchester Country Club 99 Biltmore Avenue, Rye, New York 10580
RegisterThe 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…
View MoreHHREC MemoryKeeper Story Hour: Renee Pessin
Nov 13, 2024 7:00PM—8:00PM
Zoom
RegisterRenee 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…
View MoreHHREC MemoryKeeper Story Hour: Max Friedman
Dec 11, 2024 7:00PM—8:00PM
Zoom
RegisterMax 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…
View MoreHHREC International Educators’ Study Tour of Germany and Poland 2025
Jun 20, 2025—Jul 06, 2025
Berlin and Warsaw, Germany and Krakow, Poland
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