Maddy Israel’s grandfather Ben Israel grew up in Romania in the 1930’s, when he began to experience antisemitism and the effects of WWII. As a third generation Holocaust Survivor, Maddy is carrying on her grandfather’s legacy. Her safekeeping story won a Silver Key this year as part of the Scholastic Writing Awards program in the…

A conversation between a Holocaust Survivor and Afghan refugee, presented in partnership with Temple Israel Center and Hebrew Institute of White Plains, and ICNAW.

HHREC is very pleased to announce we will host a Book Talk with Glenn Kurtz, author of Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film. This book was named a best book of 2014 by NPR, The New Yorker, and The Boston Globe, and it has become a documentary. The story continues…

Phyllis Shaw is a 2nd generation survivor.  Both her mother and father were survivors.  She tells the story of her mother, Regina, who as a teenager was deported to first a crowded ghetto near her home town in Romania and then transported to the Auschwitz concentration camp.  From there, she miraculously found two of her…

International Holocaust Remembrance Day Virtual Commemoration

International Holocaust Remembrance Day Virtual Commemoration Event Presented by The Museum of Jewish Heritage in partnership with HHREC

A panel discussion with Holocaust survivors and children of Holocaust survivors about complicity, propaganda and responsibility as reflected in the film will follow the screening. The discussion will be moderated by Mike Markovits; panelists include HHREC Speakers Bureau Survivor member Judith Altmann, along with Marilyn Altman, Ilan Fogel and Andy Sarkany. Click here for more…

Naomi Koller is the daughter and grandchild of Holocaust survivors. Naomi’s paternal grandparents, Anna and Israel Koller lived a very comfortable life in the Carpathian Mountain region of Romania in the town of Viznitz. Their two young sons included Naomi’s father, Mark and his brother, Dov.  With Israel Koller’s parents and siblings nearby, life was…