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.

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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

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VISIT OUR VIRTUAL EXHIBIT ON THE HOLOCAUST:

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

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

READ OUR REPORT ON WHAT THE WCHC HAS DONE DURING THE LAST DECADE: PROGRAMS, EVENTS, SPONSORS, EDUCATION,THEATER, ART: https://www.dropbox.com/s/f2gn7pbsbbd1c4e/Report_WCHC_Dec2_2021_updated.pdf?dl=0

Featured

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

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

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