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The Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center and Iona University-William H. Donat Shoah Commemoration will host Mark Weitzman, Chief Operating Officer, World Jewish Restitution Organization, Senior Delegate to the International Holocaust Remembrance Authority, and Vice President of the Association of Holocaust Organizations. This program will also feature a presentation of the 2024 Susan J. Goldberg…

Kupferberg Holocaust Center Presentation Co-Sponsored by HHREC When Adolf Hitler established the involuntary euthanasia program in 1939 codenamed Aktion T4, he empowered medical personnel throughout the Third Reich to sterilize and kill those deemed “unworthy of life.” Join Tiarra Cooper, Ph.D. Candidate and Teaching Associate at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, for a brief…

A group of local second-generation Holocaust survivors have written and published a book documenting their families’ experiences during World War II, and five of the authors will appear to discuss their collaboration and personal family stories. Testaments of Courage in the Holocaust is a compilation of true stories told by the authors that describes the courage and…

HHREC Cosponsors this story featuring an unlikely friendship between a homeless teen and a Holocaust survivor, sparking larger questions of fear, forgiveness, healing and world peace, starring multiple Emmy Award-winning actor, Ed Asner.

Presented by The Kupferberg Center, Co-Sponsored by HHREC Join Dr. Alexander Hinton, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, and UNESCO Chair on Genocide Prevention at Rutgers University, for a discussion about how the rise of political extremism and hate speech contributes to a growing atmosphere…

Presentation by the Kupferberg Holocaust Center, Co-Sponsored by HHREC. Paragraph 175 was an 1871 German statute criminalizing sexual relations between men. Predating the Nazi regime, it was revised in 1935 allowing the Nazis to persecute larger numbers of men more aggressively. Join Dr. Jake Newsome, Scholar and Author of Pink Triangle Legacies: Coming Out in…

HHREC is a co-sponsor of this event presented by the Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center and the QCC-CUNY LGBTQIA+ Consortium. During the Holocaust, homosexual men imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps were required to wear inverted pink triangle badges on their uniforms, a symbol that was later reclaimed as an emblem of Gay Pride. Join…

Faye Levinson is a second generation witness to the Holocaust. Her parents were survivors of the Łódź Ghetto and Auschwitz. Faye was born in a displaced person camp in Germany. She is presently a docent and second generation speaker at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center. She is studying for a Master’s degree in…

This powerful film explores themes of faith, family, and resilience, the persistence of discrimination and the power of music, and the urgency of telling these stories today. Cantor David Wisnia, known to his family as “Saba”, had never told the whole truth about how he survived as a prisoner at the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp.…