Joan Arnay Halperin is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, with a BA in Speech and Drama. She earned a Master of Arts Degree in TESOL, and devoted many years to teaching, grant writing and teacher training at various New York City Public Schools.

In 2012, while doing research for her book My Sister’s Eyes: a Family Chronicle of Rescue and Loss During World War II, Joan learned of her family’s debt to the Holocaust rescuer Aristides de Sousa Mendes the Portuguese Consul General in Bordeaux, France.

In recent years Joan dedicates her energies to sharing the story of  her family’s 1241-day journey on the road to freedom with teachers and students at the elementary through university level.

Joan will share excerpts from the testimony her mother Helene Arnay gave on January 1, 1989.

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