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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Congregation Emanu-El of Westchester & The Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center Kristallnacht Program. 

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.

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.