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.

Amalia Hoffman grew up in Jerusalem, Israel. Both her parents lost their entire families during the Holocaust. She is an author, illustrator and storyteller.  She will share personal reflections during the Memory Keeper Story Hour. In her picture book biography, The Brave Cyclist: The True Story of a Holocaust Hero (Capstone Editions, 2019) she shares her story (ages 8+)…

Come to Queensborough Community College’s Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC) to experience the KHC’s original exhibition, The Concentration Camps: Inside the Nazi System of Incarceration and Genocide. Doors open for self-guided tours at 6:00pm with remarks by Dr. Laura Cohen, the KHC’s Executive Director, at 6:30pm. Event ends at 8:00pm. 

The New Rochelle Public Library is one of 29 libraries across the country selected to participate in The Yiddish Book Center’s “Stories of Exile” Reading Groups for Public Libraries program. The program uses excerpts from translated Yiddish works, and other books related to the experience of the community, to bring people together for healthy discussions…

Event presented on Zoom, co-sponsored by HHREC

Note: Online sales will stop one hour before the start of the presentation but tickets may be purchased at the door.