Michael Gyory, Chair of the Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center will share the story of his parents, both survivors, and the legacy he now lives. There will be a dedication of a new Torah scroll, rescued from the ashes of the Holocaust and gifted to the Larchmont Temple by members of Sulam Yaakov. ​​​​​​

“The Jewish Refugees Whose Intelligence Helped Win the War: Camp Ritchie and Its Graduates” Professor David Frey, Professor of History and Founding Director of the Stewart and Lynda Resnick Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies, West Point, will speak at this annual Holocaust Remembrance Lecture presented by Purchase College and the Holocaust & Human Rights…

William is a member of Second Generation, the son of Polish Jews who survived the hardships and trauma of the Nazi era. His parents met and were married in Belgium shortly after the war and came to America in 1950. William was born in the Bronx in 1951, grew up in Queens, attended college in…

Presentation and Q&A With Steven Goldberg Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center Director of Education Steven Goldberg will speak about the History of Antisemitism and engage in a Q&A with attendees following his talk and presentation.

This film screening is presented by the Iona University Driscoll Professorship in Jewish-Catholic Studies and the Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center. The film tells the story of how a frail YMCA employee fed, sheltered and led an evacuation of 350,000 people from the port city of Smyrna, which became Ground Zero for one of…

Naomi Koller is the daughter and grandchild of Holocaust survivors. Naomi’s paternal grandparents, Anna and Israel Koller lived a very comfortable life in the Carpathian Mountain region of Romania in the town of Viznitz. Their two young sons included Naomi’s father, Mark and his brother, Dov.  With Israel Koller’s parents and siblings nearby, life was…

Tamar Ben-Simon is the daughter of Joseph Obstfeld, a Dutch Holocaust survivor. Tamar tells the riveting story of her grandparents and her father, who was barely five years old at the time of the Nazi invasion into the Netherlands in 1940. It is a story of love vs. hate, evil vs. kindness, despair vs. hope…

Join us in honor of Black History Month for a special virtual presentation, Letters from Anne and Martin, a two-person show that highlights the parallels between Anne Frank’s Diary of a Young Girl and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail. This powerful and unique program will feature actors reading the words from two of history’s most…

Join pianist Carolyn Enger for a multimedia presentation exploring identity, culture, migration and spirituality. The Mischlinge Exposé weaves a tapestry around a little known aspect of the Holocaust: the Mischlinge, a derogatory term for those neither Jewish nor Aryan. Combining music by German and Jewish composers of the 20th century with stirring testimony from Enger’s…