THE ART OF INVENTING HOPE Intimate Conversations with Elie Wiesel During the last four years of his life, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel met with Howard in Chicago, New York and Florida to discuss the subject that linked them: Both Professor Wiesel and Robert Reich, Howard’s father, were liberated from the Buchenwald death camp…

As the granddaughter of four Holocaust survivors, Michelle Gewanter tells their story to honor and preserve their memories.  She is committed to transmitting the stories and lessons of the Holocaust to audiences of all ages. Michelle shares her paternal grandmother’s story of survival in World War II Poland, where her grandmother, Hindzia, hid from the…

Shames Jewish Community Center  presents Julie Scallero, co-Director of Education Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center The 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia and the 2018 Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting were significant moments in recent United States history, as they revealed a persistence of hatred and overt discrimination that some Americans believed…

REGISTER HERE Wendy shares the story of her mother’s journey from a Jewish six year old to a Catholic school girl who hid in the convent back again to an ardent Jew. She credits her blue eyes with saving her because she didn’t look Jewish and could pass as an Aryan. Wendy’s mother’s story is…

REGISTER HERE Kathy Grosz-Zaltas is a daughter of Holocaust survivors. She tells their story to honor their lives and to have their story serve as a purposeful tool to look at bullying, injustice, antisemitism and bigotry in our world today. Her parents grew up in different parts of Czechoslovakia, enjoying happy, cultured and well-to-do lives.…

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ANNUAL COUNTYWIDE YOM HASHOAH COMMEMORATION APRIL 8, 2021 12 NOON TO 1PM free and open to the public

Dr. Mithat Gashi is a board member of Manhattan College’s Holocaust, Genocide, and Interfaith Education Center. He works as a high school principal and teaches at Lehman College- City University of New York, where he co-chaired Lehman College’s Professional Development Network Executive Council. Dr. Gashi is a board member of Vatra -The Pan Albanian Federation…