Event cosponsored by HHREC and the Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center Approximately five hundred million persons throughout the world have physical, sensory, cognitive, or developmental disabilities. Join James I. Charlton, Executive Vice President of Access Living in Chicago and author of Nothing About Us Without Us, for a discussion about historical and contemporary disability…

Yuval Ehrenreich, the son of a child sole survivor who knew little about his parents, and nothing about his extended family, will tell the story of his step-grandfather Jakob (Jacques) Samuel. Five years ago, he discovered a picture of him in an archive, learning for the first time what he looked like. Driven to know…

International Holocaust Remembrance Day and Black History Month Event cosponsored by NYMC and HHREC

January 27, 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. With so few survivors and eyewitnesses left to share their stories of survival and resilience, Holocaust memorial museums will become even more critical educational spaces. In commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, join Dr. Amy Sodaro, author…

HHREC GenerationsForward Speaker Lisa Salko will share the story of how her sisters and cousins traveled to Lichtenfels, Bavaria, Germany to reclaim their grandfather’s and two great uncles’ drivers’ licenses which had been confiscated by the Nazis 80 years earlier, shortly after Kristallnacht. 13 Jewish Drivers’ Licenses is about a small Bavarian town coming to…

Max Friedman’s parents were Polish/Jewish Holocaust survivors who met in Sweden (where he and his sister were born) after their liberation from Bergen-Belsen. Max will tell the story of how his parents survived five years of ghettos, slave labor and concentration camps and the loss of everyone and everything they had ever loved. Emigrating to…

Renee Bronner Pessin will appear on Zoom to share her story as a descendant of two Holocaust survivors. Renee’s mother Helen was the only survivor of her immediate and extended family of more than 50 people In Poland. Her father Sam, along with one brother were the only survivors of their large immediate and extended…

This annual event is presented by HHREC and Iona University.

This presentation and exhibit will include a Q&A with HHREC GenerationsForward Speaker Lisa Salko.