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,…

Event presented by The Museum of Jewish Heritage Co-Sponsored by HHREC. Every year, the Museum of Jewish Heritage brings together thousands of New Yorkers at their Annual Gathering of Remembrance to collectively vow to never forget. Delivered by a city with one of the world’s largest communities of Holocaust survivors, this annual tribute has power…

HHREC is making introductory remarks for two films during the Jewish Film Festival at the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville on April 24th. The first film Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire will be showing at 4:00pm, and the second, ADA—My Mother the Architect, will be showing at 7pm. Purchase tickets at the box office…