Event 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…

Noah Saphier will share his story as a fourth generation descendant of Holocaust Survivors about his great-grandfather Wolf Brühl, starting from when he was born in Jarosław, Poland, through his time when he was incarcerated and to his death at Auschwitz. Noah spent years engaging in archival research and traveling to Europe to meet with…

KHC 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…

Event 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…

HHREC Board Member and GenerationsForward Speaker Debby Ziering will share the story of her father and nephew.

Event 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…

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).

Event Cosponsored by HHREC Register to watch online: https://tinyurl.com/52assas3 Register to attend in person: https://tinyurl.com/2np6uwnh Argentina–home to the largest Jewish community in Latin America–is a nation with multiple histories of violence and loss, including the 1976-1983 dictatorship and the 1994 bombing of the Argentine Jewish Mutual Aid Society, which still remains in a state of…

The HHREC MemoryKeeper Story Hour will feature a presentation by Joan Arnay Halperin. Joan will share the story of her parents’ remarkable transcontinental path to survival that she developed while doing research for her book My Sister’s Eyes: a Family Chronicle of Rescue and Loss During World War II, as she learned of her family’s…