Wagner College Holocaust Center
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.
register for our summer conference:
Join us as six international scholars on Holocaust and Genocide, including three members of the Lancet Committee on Medicine and the Holocaust, present heroic acts of courage by nurses, doctors and medical personnel in the Holocaust, the Rwandan Genocide and other moments of genocide. Faculty from Nursing schools in the U.S. and abroad discuss the transformative power of using these real life stories to increase empathy, ethical decision making and professional identity within the medical field.
register:https://wagner.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUodu-sqDIoE9MofoldeGda1-03Mris3Xh4
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
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
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
Featured
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 
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 
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 
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 
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 
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 
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 
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 
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 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.