Virtual Event Co-Sponsored by HHREC This event is part of the 2023-24 Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC) and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Colloquium, “Weaponizing the Past: Art, History and the Rhetoric of National Greatness.” The event is organized by the KHC and is co-sponsored by the Holocaust, Genocide and Interfaith Education…

From January 14-March 15, 2024, the Leo Baeck institute will feature an exhibit called “Leave the Land” about the Kitchener camp, a largely forgotten rescue that saved 4000 lives, mostly young men from Germany and Austria.  Horrified by Kristellnacht and the subsequent arrest of thousands of Jewish men, the British Jewish community – the same…

HHREC and the Ossining Public Library present Letters from Anne and Martin, a live theatrical performance featuring the iconic voices of Anne Frank and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered by actors from the Anne Frank Center, USA. There is no fee to attend, advance registration required.

In July 1938, international diplomats from 32 countries gathered in Evian-les-Bain, France to discuss the growing crisis of German and Austrian Jewish refugees fleeing persecution in the Reich. In commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, join Dr. Diane Afoumado, Chief of the Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for a special presentation about…

HHREC GenerationsForward speaker Shelley Greenspan will appear on Zoom to tell the story of her father. His experiences during WW2 are not so well known, but impacted many Jewish men in Hungary. Like some other 45,000 Jewish men in Hungary, he was drafted into the Hungarian Labor Service System, as Jewish men and other “undesirables”…

HHREC Supper Seminar Series Event for Area Educators. Please pay in advance of attending the program.  For further information, contact Steve Goldberg, Director of Education, Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center at sgoldberg@hhrecny.org or call at (914) 696-0738. This workshop is limited to 20 educators.  

Participants  will review excerpts from current day publications as they relate to the challenges of displacement, migration and diaspora. The reading list for this session will include excerpts from the following:   The Glatstein Chronicles, by Jacob Glatstein, edited by Ruth Wisse, translated by Maier Deshell and Norbert Guterman; African Town by Charles Waters and Irene…

In July 1938, international diplomats from 32 countries gathered in Evian-les-Bain, France to discuss the growing crisis of German and Austrian Jewish refugees fleeing persecution in the Reich. Join us for a special presentation about the significance of the Evian Conference’s 85th anniversary featuring Dr. Diane Afoumado, Chief of the Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center at the United States…

Featuring Tom White, Coordinator of Educational Outreach at the Cohen Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College. This talk is a collaboration between Queensborough Community College’s Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center and New York City College of Technology’s (City Tech) Ursula C. Schwerin Library in support of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s…

Join us to reconnect and celebrate our communities’ shared values and diversity and commit to communal action to effect positive change in our world. Tickets: $20 on or before November 13, $25 after November 13.