Aaron and Esther Cohen, Director and Producer of the film, “Heaven in Auschwitz” Dr. Shay Pilnik, Moderator

Gloria Lazar tells the story of her father, Arthur, whose courage, determination and cunning were key to his survival after the Nazis invaded his town in southern Poland in September 1939. Gloria’s story traces his escape from the Nazis, imprisonment in a Soviet concentration camp, daring leap from a Polish troop train and the remaining…

See how you can use forensic analysis techniques to uncover your family history. Join Ryan Lilienthal as he tells how he uncovered his family story. Ryan Lilienthal engages his audience in a blueprint process to harness the vast array of increasingly available Holocaust-related archives to piece together the lives of Holocaust victims.

Westchester Jewish Council and UJA-Federation of New York in partnership with Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center, Anti-Defamation League (ADL), American Jewish Committee (AJC), and the JCC of Mid-Westchester Stand together with community leaders, clergy of all faiths, elected and public officials and more. Masks will be required. There will be no restroom access. This…

The City of Hod Hasharon, Israel and the Village of Scarsdale, New York present via Zoom a shared commemoration of the Holocaust in a program called “A Conversation Across Communities.” The program is co-sponsored in New York by Scarsdale Synagogue Temples Tremont & Emanu-El, the Westchester Jewish Council, and the Holocaust & Human Rights Education…

Helen Rubel is the daughter and granddaughter of Holocaust survivors. Helen tells the story of her mother and maternal grandmother, who had lived in harmony with their neighbors in Hadamar, a small town in Western Germany. After Kristallnacht, the night of broken glass, when the Nazis destroyed Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues, their entire lives changed. Helen shares her mother’s first-person account of that night and how she and Helen’s grandmother escaped to Holland, where they were hidden in an attic in Amsterdam until the Nazis were defeated.

Joanna Lebowitz, Executive Director and Founder, ShadowLight Dr. Shay Pilnik, Event Moderator

Sr. Eleanor Francis is a second generation Holocaust survivor who comes from a family in which the Holocaust was rarely mentioned. Even as an adult, when she learned that her Hungarian mother and grandmother had survived Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, she couldn’t understand why they were interred in those camps. Were they Jewish? Not that she…

    The fear of many Holocaust survivors is that when they are gone, their stories will be gone.  Children of survivors, are living testimony to the hopes, dreams, and ideals that their parents and grandparents embodied. When Paul Goldstein was asked to speak to his synagogue a few years ago on the Holocaust Day…

Sunday, May 16 at 5:00 PM – Understanding the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising through the Theatrical Musical To Paint the Earth In memory of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, which took place in 1943 from April 19 to May 16, three local Holocaust Centers are teaming up with the Richard Rodgers Award-winning musical To Paint the Earth to…