Event Cosponsored by HHREC Register to watch online: https://tinyurl.com/54zvpkruRegister to attend in person: https://tinyurl.com/2a72yh44 From Swastika to Jim Crow tells the story of German Jewish scholars who joined the faculty at historically Black colleges and universities in the South and the challenges of leaving one oppressive society for another. In this discussion, documentarians Joel Sucher and Steven…

Event Cosponsored by HHREC During the critical years of the Jewish refugee crisis, one unlikely country opened its doors: Bolivia. At the time, Bolivia was perceived as a poor and struggling nation, still recovering from the devastating war with Paraguay (1932–1935). Yet, against all expectations, the country welcomed around 20,000 Jewish refugees. Why did Bolivia…

Leah Rozenfeld Sills learned as an adult that her father, Stephen Rozenfeld, as well as her grandparents Abraham and Eugenia Rozenfeld, escaped Poland and survived the Holocaust due to the immediate actions of Abraham, who obtained transit visas from Bolivian Consul General Bilbao. Later, the family received help from an Upstander – Clara, the family…

KHC Event Cosponsored by HHREC Between 1933 and 1945, hundreds of Jews resisted persecution in Nazi Germany and annexed Austria, including public protest and taking pictures to document persecution, despite being often heavily punished by the regime. The fact that so many German Jewish women and men of all ages, educations, and professions resisted obliterates…

HHREC GenerationsForward Speaker Grace Kalfus will present the story of her mother Frieda Kalfus (née Dulberg), who was born in Jablonow, Poland in 1923. Frieda’s life changed in 1939 when Hitler signed a non-aggression pact giving Frieda’s town and the eastern part of Poland to Russia. Her life was even more dramatically altered in 1941…

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…