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International Holocaust Remembrance Day Event Featuring HHREC Board Chairperson Michael Gyory
Jan 27, 2023 12:00PM—1:00PM
Webex
International Holocaust Remembrance Event: Concert Pianist Carolyn Enger Presents THE MISCHLINGE EXPOSÉ
Jan 26, 2023 7:00PM—9:00PM
2125 Westchester Avenue East Rye, NY 10580
Join pianist Carolyn Enger for a multimedia presentation exploring identity, culture, migration and spirituality. The Mischlinge Exposé weaves a tapestry around a little known aspect of the Holocaust: the Mischlinge, a derogatory term for those neither Jewish nor Aryan. Combining music by German and Jewish composers of the 20th century with stirring testimony from Enger’s…
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Jan 26, 2023 6:00PM—8:00PM
Virtual
The Ongoing Legacy and Impact of the Holocaust in U.S. Foreign Policy This event is organized by the Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center at Queensborough Community College. It is co-sponsored by the Holocaust Museum & Center For Tolerance and Education at Rockland Community College; the Gross Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Ramapo College…
View MoreMemory Keepers Story Hour: Julie Sherman, Generations Forward
Jan 19, 2023 7:00PM—8:00PM
Zoom
Julie Sherman is the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, Helen Sherman, born Chaya Scharfer. Julie tells the story of her mother, one of eight children born to an orthodox Hasidic German family. The family lived in Danzig, which is now Gdańsk Poland, and owned the largest kosher hotel on the Baltic Sea. They were fortunate…
View MoreMemory Keepers Story Hour: Yuval Ehrenreich, Generations Forward
Dec 15, 2022 7:00PM—8:00PM
Zoom
Yuval Ehrenreich tells the story of his father’s stolen childhood and his struggle to survive when he was separated from his parents. At age 7 he witnessed the family’s synagogue on Roonstrasse street in Cologne, Germany was set on fire by the Nazis on the night of Kristallnacht and weeks later he crossed the border alone…
View MoreMemory Keepers Story Hour: Michael Gyory, Generations Forward
Nov 17, 2022 7:00PM—8:00PM
Zoom
Listen to the most amazing true story of fortitude and willpower. Hear how Agi Keleti survived the Nazis and outlasted the Communists to become the greatest female Jewish Olympian of all time – winning 10 medals in women’s gymnastics for her native Hungary. This is also a deeply personal story for storyteller Michael Gyory, as Agi…
View MoreAnnual Kristallnacht Commemoration
Nov 15, 2022 7:00PM—9:00PM
LaPenta School of Business 105 Iona University 715 North Avenue New Rochelle
Kristallnacht Program: The ‘Ghetto Girls’ Who Fought the Nazis With Weapons and Wiles – With Artist Paula Blumenfeld
Nov 10, 2022 7:00PM—9:00PM
2125 Westchester Ave E, Rye, NY 10580
Congregation Emanu-El of Westchester & The Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center Kristallnacht Program.
View MoreHHREC Supper Seminar Series: Teaching the Great Hunger of 1845-1851
Nov 03, 2022 4:30PM—6:30PM
HHREC 4 West Red Oak Lane, Suite 204, White Plains, NY
Educators – Please join us for this first in a series of seminars at our new library in White Plains. Participants will receive 2 CTLE credits for participation.
View More2022 HHREC Benefit
Oct 27, 2022 6:30PM—9:00PM
Westchester Country Club 99 Biltmore Avenue, Rye, New York, U.S.
The HHREC community will gather once again for our Annual Benefit on Thursday evening October 27th at the beautiful Westchester Country Club in Rye, New York. This year we are honoring Dennis Mehiel, and our Keynote Speaker is Bret Stephens, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and columnist with the New York Times.
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