This event sponsored by the Ossining Public Library and HHREC 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…

This commemoration presented by HHREC, WJC and UJA Federation New York will feature reflections from Holocaust survivor Annie Kleinhaus, the procession of Westchester’s rescued Holocaust Torahs and remarks from County Executive George Latimer. This event is free and open to the public, and will be held rain or shine.

Congregation Emanu-El of Westchester & The Holocaust and Human Rights Education Center Yom Hashoah event Author Sonia Beker is the daughter of Max Beker and Fania Durmashkin, accomplished musicians in pre-war Vilna, Lithuania, who shared their music in the Vilna ghetto and, finally, the St. Ottilien Displaced Persons Camp where they first met in 1945.…

For 70 years, Nathan Hilu was unable to stop drawing, flooded with memories from the days when the US military assigned him to guard top Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg trials, keeping them from committing suicide before their verdict was announced. Born to a Syrian Jewish family that immigrated to the States, Hilu remembered…

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The Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center and Iona University-William H. Donat Shoah Commemoration will host Mark Weitzman, Chief Operating Officer, World Jewish Restitution Organization, Senior Delegate to the International Holocaust Remembrance Authority, and Vice President of the Association of Holocaust Organizations. This program will also feature a presentation of the 2024 Susan J. Goldberg…

A group of local second-generation Holocaust survivors have written and published a book documenting their families’ experiences during World War II, and five of the authors will appear to discuss their collaboration and personal family stories. Testaments of Courage in the Holocaust is a compilation of true stories told by the authors that describes the courage and…

Kupferberg Holocaust Center Presentation Co-Sponsored by HHREC When Adolf Hitler established the involuntary euthanasia program in 1939 codenamed Aktion T4, he empowered medical personnel throughout the Third Reich to sterilize and kill those deemed “unworthy of life.” Join Tiarra Cooper, Ph.D. Candidate and Teaching Associate at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, for a brief…

HHREC Cosponsors this story featuring an unlikely friendship between a homeless teen and a Holocaust survivor, sparking larger questions of fear, forgiveness, healing and world peace, starring multiple Emmy Award-winning actor, Ed Asner.