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Kristallnacht Commemoration: How Holocaust Education Must Change Because Our World Has Changed
Nov 06, 2024 7:30PM—8:30PM
Iona University Henry Auditorium, LaPenta School of Business 715 North Avenue, New Rochelle, NY
This annual event is presented by HHREC and Iona University.
View More13 Drivers’ Licenses Presentation and Exhibit
Nov 04, 2024 10:00AM—11:30AM
Shames JCC on the Hudson 371 S. Broadway, Tarrytown, NY
RegisterThis presentation and exhibit will include a Q&A with HHREC GenerationsForward Speaker Lisa Salko.
View MoreHolocaust & Human Rights Education Center Annual Benefit
Oct 30, 2024 6:30PM—9:30PM
Westchester Country Club 99 Biltmore Avenue, Rye, New York 10580
RegisterThe HHREC Annual Benefit will be held on Wednesday, October 30th starting at 6:30pm at Westchester Country Club in Rye, New York. The honorees are R. Derek Black, author of the book, THE KLANSMAN’S SON: MY JOURNEY FROM WHITE NATIONALISM TO ANTIRACISM, and Elisha Wiesel, Philanthropist, Chairman of the Board of the Elie Wiesel Foundation…
View MoreKHC-NEH Lecture – Virtual Finding Home: Exploring the Cuban Jewish Experience in the Caribbean and the US
Oct 30, 2024 12:00PM—1:00PM
Zoom
RegisterJoin us for a rich and powerful conversation surrounding Cuba’s long Jewish history with Dr. Ruth Behar, a cultural anthropologist and published children’s book author who has spent her career studying and sharing her own personal experience navigating her identity as a Cuban Jew. The discussion will encompass the ways in which Jewish immigrants reckoned…
View MoreRegarding Repatriation: Museums and Native Communities Today
Oct 09, 2024 2:00PM—3:00PM
Zoom
RegisterEvent cosponsored by HHREC Join us for a conversation about the 2024 revisions to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), including its effects on museums and Native communities featuring Danyelle Means, Director of the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture in Santa Fe, NM and co-curator of the Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg…
View MoreAgi Keleti: The Jewish Olympian’s Story of Survival and Triumph-Exhibit and Speaker Michael Gyory NO SEATS AVAILABLE
Aug 12, 2024 1:00PM—2:00PM
1733 US-6, Carmel Hamlet, NY 10512
This event will feature a presentation by HHREC Board Chairperson and GenerationsForward Speaker Michael Gyory on the oldest living Olympian and Holocaust survivor, Agi Keleti, his father’s cousin. Agi Keleti: The Jewish Olympian’s Story of Survival and Triumph is a very special exhibition that offers compelling insight into the story of a young girl’s survival during…
View MoreAgi Keleti: The Jewish Olympian’s Story of Survival and Triumph – Exhibit and Speaker Michael Gyory at Desmond-Fish Library in Garrison
Jul 18, 2024 6:30PM—7:30PM
Desmond-Fish Public Library 472 Route 403 Garrison, NY 10524
RegisterOn Thursday, July 18th the Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center (HHREC) in partnership with the Desmond-Fish Public Library in Garrison, NY will host a talk and presentation on the oldest living Olympian Champion and Holocaust survivor. Agi Keleti: The Jewish Olympian’s Story of Survival and Triumph will be presented by HHREC Board Chairperson and GenerationsForward Speaker Michael Gyory.…
View MoreHHREC Summer Educators’ Tour of Germany and Poland
Jul 06, 2024—Jul 21, 2024
Berlin, Warsaw, Krakow
RegisterDedication Ceremony for Planting Sapling From Anne Frank’s Tree
Jun 11, 2024 12:00PM—1:00PM
Garden of Remembrance, 119 Martine Ave, White Plains, NY
The Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center will hold a dedication ceremony on Tuesday, June 11th at the Garden of Remembrance in White Plains, NY for the planting of a sapling grown from a tree referenced in Anne Frank’s Diary. The ceremony will begin at 12:00pm noon, and will include remarks by Westchester County Executive…
View MoreMemory Keepers Story Hour: A Talk With Authors of “A Blessing, Not a Burden” Book – 7pm EST on Zoom
May 28, 2024 7:00PM—8:00PM
Zoom
RegisterAuthors Dr. Alex Kor and Graham Honaker will appear on the HHREC Memory Keepers Story Hour to talk about their recently published book A Blessing, Not a Burden. The book chronicles the lives of Dr. Kor’s parents Eva and Mickey Kor as they managed to survive the unimaginable horrors of life in a concentration camp…
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