Presented by The Kupferberg Center, Co-Sponsored by HHREC Join Dr. Alexander Hinton, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, and UNESCO Chair on Genocide Prevention at Rutgers University, for a discussion about how the rise of political extremism and hate speech contributes to a growing atmosphere…

Presentation by the Kupferberg Holocaust Center, Co-Sponsored by HHREC. Paragraph 175 was an 1871 German statute criminalizing sexual relations between men. Predating the Nazi regime, it was revised in 1935 allowing the Nazis to persecute larger numbers of men more aggressively. Join Dr. Jake Newsome, Scholar and Author of Pink Triangle Legacies: Coming Out in…

HHREC is a co-sponsor of this event presented by the Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center and the QCC-CUNY LGBTQIA+ Consortium. During the Holocaust, homosexual men imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps were required to wear inverted pink triangle badges on their uniforms, a symbol that was later reclaimed as an emblem of Gay Pride. Join…

Faye Levinson is a second generation witness to the Holocaust. Her parents were survivors of the Łódź Ghetto and Auschwitz. Faye was born in a displaced person camp in Germany. She is presently a docent and second generation speaker at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center. She is studying for a Master’s degree in…

This powerful film explores themes of faith, family, and resilience, the persistence of discrimination and the power of music, and the urgency of telling these stories today. Cantor David Wisnia, known to his family as “Saba”, had never told the whole truth about how he survived as a prisoner at the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp.…

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”…