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…

From Holocaust survivor to Olympic champion—discover the extraordinary journey of Agi Keleti, the most decorated female Jewish Olympian in history. Teens are invited to view this special presentation by HHREC GenerationsForward Speaker and Board Vice Chairperson Michael Gyory and exhibit presented in partnership with JCC Mid-Westchester.

A screening of the film Eva’s Promise hosted by JCC Mid-Westchester will be followed by a conversation with Producer Susan Kerner, Director Steve McCarthy, and HHREC Director of Education Steve Goldberg. This moving documentary tells the story of Eva Schloss, who, on a train to Auschwitz, made a promise to her seventeen-year-old brother Heinz—to retrieve…

Presented by HHREC and Iona University, this program will feature a presentation of the Susan J. Goldberg Memorial Teacher Award to Daniel Wolfe, a Social Studies Teacher at Denzel Washington School for the Arts in Mount Vernon.

Jeanette Silverstein Cohen is the daughter of Holocaust survivors. Her mother, Renee was the sole survivor of her immediate family. Upon her death in 2022 at the age of 98 Jeanette found letters hidden in leather wallets that were sent to Renee while she was imprisoned in labor camp. These letters written by her father…

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