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…

Register to watch online: https://tinyurl.com/2pehnwr5Register to attend in person: https://tinyurl.com/mryj4a23 In 1933, with almost twenty years of service as professor at the Prussian Academy of Sciences and researcher at Humbolt University of Berlin, and under targeted threat from the Nazi regime, Albert Einstein fled Germany. With the aid of the Academic Assistance Council, he and…

Cosponsored by HHREC Event presented by HHREC in partnership with KHC. Register to watch online: https://tinyurl.com/3vc2rh95Register to attend in person: https://tinyurl.com/2ycu582b In a world where most saw binaries of “us” and “them,” Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld saw humanity as a seamless continuum of “we.” Applying this insight first to sexual orientation, then to gender, and finally…

Join KHC and HHREC for a conversation with acclaimed poet Ilya Kaminsky, whose poems bear witness to our times and create a space for empathy and compassion in resistance to oppression. Kaminsky is the author of Deaf Republic (Graywolf Press, 2019) and Dancing In Odessa (Tupelo Press, 2004), and co-editor and co-translator of many other…

At the end of WWII, Jewish burial societies (landsmanshaften) often created memorials in cemeteries to honor the memories of their families and towns destroyed during the Holocaust. Join us for a conversation about the history of the landsmanshaften, as well as an exploration of how burial societies at the Mount Hebron Cemetery in New York…

Cosponsored by HHREC In 1988, while visiting Częstochowa, Poland, Harry Rapaport made a remarkable discovery: a trove of Torah scrolls hidden in the attic of a wartime factory that had previously been a Jewish ritual bathhouse. Although heavily damaged, these religious artifacts are a living memorial to the local Jewish communities who perished during the…

On Thursday, May 15th the HHREC Annual Spring Luncheon will be held at the beautiful Bet Am Shalom Synagogue in White Plains. This year our program will feature a presentation: Relentless by our GenerationsForward Speaker Debby Ziering. Debby is the daughter of two Holocaust survivors. Her father Herman was born in Kassel Germany and was…

Join us for a fascinating talk with Audrey Reich, a member of the HHREC Advisory Board, as she shares the remarkable story of her mother’s childhood in Shanghai, China. Born into a Russian Jewish family that fled the Russian Revolution in search of safety and opportunity, her family’s journey took them from Harbin to Shanghai,…