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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.

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        Listen to the wonderful new podcast,

        Chutzpah: Hunters Presents True Stories Of ResistancePrime Video, Monkeypaw Productions, and Story Mill Media

        Hunters on Prime Video is inspired by heroes who, during the Holocaust, fought back using sabotage, disguise, bravery, force, and even art to persevere and save untold others

        Check out the episode on partisan hero Vitka Kempner, with commentary by Dr. Lori Weintrob, Director of the WCHC

        https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/chutzpah-hunters-presents-true-stories-of-resistance/id1658561964


                SAVE THE DATE! DETAILS AND PROGRAM TO FOLLOW:

         

         

        SEE THE PROGRAM OF OUR JUNE 2022 SYMPOSIUM ON HEROINES OF THE HOLOCAUST: NEW FRAMEWORKS OF RESISTANCE:://sites.google.com/wagner.edu/heroines/programabstractsbios/program

        VISIT OUR VIRTUAL EXHIBIT ON THE HOLOCAUST:

        virtual exhibit

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        READ OUR REPORT ON WHAT THE WCHC HAS DONE DURING THE LAST DECADE: PROGRAMS, EVENTS, SPONSORS, EDUCATION,THEATER, ART

           Click here:

        https://www.dropbox.com/s/f2gn7pbsbbd1c4e/Report_WCHC_Dec2_2021_updated.pdf?dl=0


         

           “By learning the stories of Holocaust survivors, we are inspired to see the world differently  and stand up more strongly against prejudice.”

                                     – Jazmine Minner, Wagner College Class of 2017

         

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        7th Annual Egon J. Salmon and Family Commemoration of Kristallnacht and the St. Louis
        November 12, 2022
        On Nov. 10, 2022, the 7th Annual Egon J. Salmon and Family Commemoration of Kristallnacht and the St. Louis was held at Wagner College. Two Second Generation (2G) speakers shared their reflections on their parents’ and grandparents’ strategies to escape Nazi Germany and their compelling messages
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        BRAVE YOUNG WOMEN AT HEART OF IRAN PROTESTS
        September 26, 2022
          “You do not know the limits of my courage”. These words were uttered by Holocaust heroine Marianne Cohn, who spent the war years rescuing Jewish children before being murdered by the Gestapo in 1944. But they can serve as inspiration today for the defiant young women of Iran, who are at
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        S.I. Advance Covers Opening of Education and Action Gallery
        April 10, 2022
        Wagner Alumnus Lauren Lovallo, now a journalist for the Staten Island Advance, wrote a lengthy and detailed article on the opening of our long-awaited Education and Action Gallery. Interviewing co-curators Profs. Lori Weintrob and Laura Morowitz, Lovallo provided insights on the themes, design and
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        The Sixth Annual Egon J. Salmon and Family Commemoration of Kristallnacht and the S.S. St. Louis
        November 19, 2021
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C91h-vVVVys The Wagner College Holocaust Center presents "Beyond Anne Frank: Hiding from the Nazis in the Netherlands." This talk by survivor and artist Lore Baer Azaria explores her family’s experience as German refugees who settled in Amsterdam and were then rescued
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        Interview with Survivor Estelle Laughlin, Aunt of WCHC and CHAI Society Board Member Fern Zagor
        September 7, 2021
        The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has devoted a one hour interview special, First Person, Interviews with Holocaust Survivors, to the remarkable and courageous Estelle Laughlin. Estelle, who survived the Warsaw ghetto, and  Majdanek concentration camp with her mother and sister, is the aunt
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        Fox-Bevilacqua: "We must harness Holocaust Memory to help those trapped in Afghanistan"
        August 23, 2021
        Noted journalist and filmmaker Marisa Fox-Bevilacqua, second generation survivor, is imploring American Jewry to help prevent the mass slaughter of innocent Afghanis in the wake of the U.S. withdrawl of troops. Fox-Bevilacqua's mother, born in Sosniewiec, was deported to a forced labor camp in the Sudentenland
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        Dr. Weintrob reviews Batalion's The Light of Days
        August 6, 2021
        Read Dr. Lori Weintrob's review of our 2022 symposium keynote speaker, Judy Batalion's The Light of Days (Harper Collins, 2021) https://www.thejewishstar.com/stories/batalions-light-of-days-goes-beyond-senesh,20752#.YQveRNngBoI.mailto
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        Faye Shulman (28 November 1919-24 April 2021): Partisan, Photographer, Resister
        April 27, 2021
        “I want people to know that there was resistance. Jews did not go like sheep to the slaughter. I was a photographer. I have pictures. I have proof.” The Wagner College Holocaust Center mourns the passing this week of the heroic Faye Shulman, an inspiration to women, and to resisters everywhere
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        Lily Zaks and the Girls of Bendin
        April 14, 2021
        Lily Zaks, c. 1947   In September of 1939, twenty-two year old Lily (“Laja”) Zaks was the age of many college seniors who study the Holocaust today. But her peaceful, happy life would end overnight when Nazi troops marched into her town of Bendin (Będzin) days after declaring war on Poland.
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        Dr. Lori Weintrob to speak at Museum of Jewish History on Heroines of the Holocaust
        March 10, 2021
        presents:   Heroines of the Holocaust Tuesday, March 16 I 7 PM ET Register here: mjhnyc.info/heroines TO SEE THE RECORDED TALK PLEASE VISIT:https://mjhnyc.org/blog/the-lives-and-legacies-of-jewish-women-who-resisted-the-nazis/ During the Holocaust, more than 3,000 women fought back against the
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