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        ZACHOR – WE WILL NEVER FORGET

        Our mission is to empower future generations in empathy, courage, and ethical decision-making
        in order to combat antisemitism, racism & all forms of prejudice.

                                 CLICK HERE FOR OUR ANNUAL REPORT 2025

         

                             

        LEARN WITH US:

         

        Survivor Arthur Spielman and Charles DeStefano, Esq. teaching students in our Holocaust Education and Action Gallery

         

         

         

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        WCHC EDUCATION AND ACTION GALLERY

        Open Hours FALL 2025:

        Last Sunday of the Month, 11-2 PM

                                         DROP IN VISITS WELCOME

         

         

                                          (Please click on the gold button at the top of the page for more information )

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        VISIT OUR VIRTUAL EXHIBIT ON THE HOLOCAUST:

        https://sites.google.com/wagner.edu/virtual-exhibit?usp=sharing

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        Morowitz Film, Lilac/Bez, Screened at Museum of Jewish Heritage
        July 23, 2025
        On July 17, 2025 the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York screened Lilac/Bez,  a short experimental documentary co-created by WCHC Senior Research and Programming Associate Laura Morowitz. The film follows Laura and two of her daughters, Isabelle and Olivia Schechter, as they travel through Poland,
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        Genocidal violence, ethnic cleansing and mass rape escalates in the Sudan
        April 17, 2025
        For Elie Wiesel, one of the most important lessons of the Holocaust was to always speak out against emerging genocides: “How could a Jew like myself, with experiences and memories like mine, stay at home and not go to the aid of an entire people?” Already by 2023 the United States Holocaust Memorial
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        In Memory of Margot Capell: October 21, 2025
        October 26, 2024
          In Memory of Margot Capell: October 21 2024 Only two days before her 104th birthday, Holocaust survivor Margot Capell passed away peacefully in her home. Our hearts are broken. Margot Capell was a woman of valor, intelligence and strength. She told her history to hundreds of youth, from 3rd
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        Estelle Wakszlak Laughlin: In Memoriam
        September 5, 2024
        “Sixty-four years have passed since my liberation from the concentration camp. I no longer can remember where I last put my glasses, yet I remember–clear as light–scenes that turned my sunny childhood into an inferno and killed nearly everyone I loved. I ask myself, How did my mother, my sister,
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        WCHC Intern James Merlino Visits Normandy in Tribute to American Soldiers
        June 5, 2024
        WCHC Intern and Wagner College PA Student James Merlino joined over 60 Wagner students and faculty to pay hommage in Normandy, France, to American soldiers--amongthem many Staten Islanders--on the 80th Anniversary of the D-Day landing. "It was made even more special by our visit to the graves of  Staten
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        WCHC Director Lori Weintrob Receives Special Founders Recognition Award
        April 16, 2024
        On April 9 2024 the WCHC Advisory Board held its Annual Mitzvah Awards, recognizing outstanding individuals in our community who have dedicated themselves to fighting hate in all its forms, including honorees - Rabbi Kerry Olitzky, Dan Glassman, Stefania Hecht (posthumously), Susan Sappin, Rev. Dr.
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        Professor Morowitz' book, Art, Exhibition and Erasure in Nazi Vienna, published this August
        July 12, 2023
        “So much has been written on the way the Nazis used art in Germany, but very little on art in Nazi Vienna, and almost nothing at all in English,” notes Dr. Laura Morowitz, whose forthcoming book, Art, Exhibition and Erasure (Routledge, 2023) sets out to change that. Morowitz has been a Professor
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        WCHC RECEIVES GIFT OF PAINTING BY ARTIST LOST IN THE SHOAH
        June 14, 2023
        Sari Kingsley never got to meet her mother's brother, Mendel Schleifer, but all her life felt a strong connection to him. Her connection was embodied by a painting that her Uncle Mendel painted as a handsome young man and which he sent to her mother in New York in 1938. Less than one year later the
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        Wolf Gruner’s New Book Shifts Narrative on Jewish Resistance
        May 31, 2023
        On August 1, 2023 Yale University Press will release Wolf Gruner’s Resisters. How Ordinary Jews fought Persecution in Hitler's Germany. Gruner is Founding Director of the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research, and Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies and Professor of History, University
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        Wagner’s Chai Society Chair, Fern Aaron Zagor, to be awarded by JCC
        March 8, 2023
          In her welcoming letter to an international community of Holocaust scholars on our campus, Fern Zagor–tireless and devoted Chair of the Wagner College Chai Society–wrote of “...the courage of the spirit, daring to believe in the future against unfathomable, indescribable odds.” Fighting
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