Please join us on Zoom for this discussion of Julie Orringer’s “The Flight Portfolio,” at our monthly book club, hosted by HMTC’s Louis Posner Memorial Library.

Varian Fry, an affluent Protestant New Yorker, drawn to Europe’s art, music and literary heritage, finds nothing but barbarism in France in 1940. He heads to Marseille as a volunteer in a privately organized mission, the Emergency Rescue Committee, whose mandate, encouraged by Eleanor Roosevelt, is to facilitate escape for luminaries in the arts, virtually all of them Jews. His experiences there, told in fictional form, fairly bristle with peril, subterfuge, forgery and unrelenting hostility. But in the end he saves the lives of more than 2,000 desperate souls.

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Please join us on Zoom for this discussion of Ellen Feldman's "The Living and the Lost," at our monthly book club, hosted by HMTC’s Louis Posner Memorial Library. Working in bombed-out Berlin after the war is like living in a latter-day Wild West, where spies ply their trade, black markets thrive and forbidden fraternization is rampant. But Millie Mosbach and her brother, David, who escaped to the US just before Kristallnacht, leaving their parents and little sister behind in Berlin, must make peace with their rage at Germany and their guilt for their own good fortune, if they are to confront the demons of their past and work successfully to rebuild the city.

HMTC joins with a Congregation Shaaray Shalom, the American Jewish Committee and a number of regional partners to present a Yom HaShoah program with Father Patrick Desbois, the forensic detective and world-renowned human-rights activist who has been documenting the war crimes of the Einsatzgruppen and other more recent genocides.

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Bestselling author Meg Waite Clayton will present a virtual talk about her award-winning novel The Last Train to London and the true story of the Kindertransport rescue which saved the lives of ten thousand Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Europe. (This program is held in conjunction with The Dolphin Bookshop, an independent bookstore in Port Washington since 1946.)

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New York Times bestselling author and historian Craig Shirley drew from his new book, April 1945: The Hinge of History, to speak about the watershed events in the month of April 1945 -- the sudden death of President Roosevelt, Harry Truman's rise to office, Adolph Hitler's suicide, and the horrific discoveries of Dachau and Auschwitz – that collided and changed the face of the world forever. (This program is held in conjunction with The Dolphin Bookshop, an independent bookstore in Port Washington since 1946.)

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HMTC welcomes Professor Beverley Eddy who will draw from her recent book, Ritchie Boy Secrets, as she presents a program about the “Alien” soldiers at Camp Ritchie who helped the Allies win World War II. Professor Eddy will speak about the antisemitism and racism that some of the men faced, the training that was offered at Camp Ritchie, and the performance of the men in the field and after the war. (This program is held in conjunction with The Dolphin Bookshop, an independent bookstore in Port Washington since 1946.)

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HMTC hosted a program with the award-winning author and historian Michael Neiberg, who will talk about his recent book, When France Fell, and discuss what FDR’s Secretary of War Henry Stimson claimed was the “most shocking single event” of World War II. The book, which the Wall Street Journal described as a “mesmerizing account,” takes the reader through the Nazi invasion and the subsequent decision by the United States to work with Vichy France despite its pro-Nazi tendencies. (This program is held in conjunction with The Dolphin Bookshop, an independent bookstore in Port Washington since 1946.)

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In commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, HMTC is joining with a group of regional Holocaust Centers to present a virtual program with Robert Williams, Deputy Director for International Affairs at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, who will discuss how current conspiracy theories and tropes fuel antisemitism, both domestically and internationally, and why Holocaust education is such an important tool in combatting this problem. (This event is organized by the Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center at Queensborough Community College and is co-sponsored by the Holocaust, Genocide and Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan College; the Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center in White Plains; the Holocaust Museum & Center for Tolerance & Education at Rockland Community College; the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County; the Wagner College Holocaust Center in Staten Island; the Gross Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies at Ramapo College of New Jersey; and the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights at Rutgers University.)

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Ellis Island officially opened as the United States Immigration Station on January 1, 1892, 130 years ago. HMTC’s museum and programming director, Dr. Thorin Tritter, presented a virtual tour of the island, describing its history and particular significance to Jewish and Italian immigrants.

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Join HMTC for a presentation hosted by the award-winning author and historian Amy Butler Greenfield about her newest book, The Woman All Spies Fear. She spoke about the inspiring true story of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, an American woman who was one of the top US codebreakers during World War II. (This is the first of two programs about Elizebeth Smith Friedman. The second will be held in March when HMTC will screen “The Codebreaker.”)

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Join HMTC to mark the anniversary of “Kristallnacht,” the state-sponsored attack on Jews that was launched by the Nazis on the night of November 9, 1938. This year, in an effort to emphasize the role of resistance during the Holocaust, HMTC welcomed author Jeffrey Sussman for a discussion about his new book Holocaust Fighters: Boxers, Resisters, and Avengers, which focuses on five boxers, four Jews and one Sinti, who fought back, unwilling to passively accept their fate as dealt to them by the Nazis.

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HMTC has hosted a program with bestselling author Rebecca Frankel about her newest book, which recounts an amazing tale of perseverance, bravery, and love as it follows the Rabinowitz family as they escape from the Nazis and eventually settle in the United States. Hear the author discuss how she learned about these true events and more about the book that Publisher’s Weekly called a “gut-wrenching yet inspirational story” that leaves readers “on the edge of their seats.”

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HMTC’s new Director of Education, Dr. Avi Marcovitz, will give a presentation about how different types of religious leaders in the ghettos -- Rabbis, educators, youth leaders, police and the Judenrat -- responded to Nazi policies that created untenable living conditions.

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Author and photographer Daniel Levin joined us for a discussion about his new book that explores master violin maker Amnon Weinstein’s effort to restore violins that survived the Holocaust. We covered the 86 violins that have been restored, fulfilling the goal of transforming tragedy into triumph by bringing violins of the Holocaust back to life.

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Charlie English, a former journalist for The Guardian, spoke with Thorin Tritter, HMTC’s museum and programming director, about his newest book, which weaves together details about Hitler’s war on modern art and the Nazi campaign to murder individuals with mental illness that established a model for use in the mass murder of Jews in death camps. Although often explored as separate topics, Charlie English brough these themes together in his book to tell an eerie story of genius, madness, and dehumanization that provides a fresh perspective on the brutal ideology of the Nazi regime.

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HMTC welcomed Professor Leah Garrett, the Director of Jewish and Hebrew Studies at Hunter College, to speak about her recent book X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War II. Described by Deborah Lipstadt as “part history and part mystery,” the book tells the largely unknown story of an elite group of German-Jewish commandos who fought in Britain’s most secretive special forces unit throughout the war.

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Award-winning science journalist and author Melinda Wenner Moyer talked about her recent book, How to Raise Kids Who Aren’t Assholes, focusing in particular on how parents can help to end racism in the next generation. Drawing on a wealth of social science research, she offered an eye-opening presentation about how racism is often carried forward to our children and what parents can do to prevent their kids from sustaining this plague in our society.

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Edward Westermann, the Regents Professor of History at Texas A&M University-San Antonio, shared a presentation about his new book, Drunk on Genocide, which is being published in association with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in DC. Westermann has unearthed new material showing how alcohol consumption served as a lubricant for mass murder and that contrary to the common misconception of the SS as stone-cold killers, they were, in fact, intoxicated with the act of murder itself.

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Celebrated author Eva Moreimi drew from her nationally recognized book to describe not only the loss and dehumanization that her parents suffered through during the Holocaust, but also their courage and determination, which became intertwined with secretly written recipes that her mother used to fuel her own struggle to resist.

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HMTC partnered with Sharsheret, a national Jewish Breast and Ovarian Cancer organization, for a virtual program with Hadassah Lieberman, the daughter of Holocaust Survivors and herself a Survivor of Breast Cancer, who talked about her new book with Sandee Brawarsky from Jewish Week.

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The Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County (HMTC) marked the National Day of Remembrance for the Cambodian Genocide with a virtual presentation by Yale University professors Eve Zucker and Ben Kiernan, based on their new book, Political Violence in Southeast Asia since 1945: Case Studies from Six Countries. Their talk examined waves of political violence that affected six Southeast Asian countries - Indonesia, Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand, the Philippines and Vietnam. They broadened outward to raise questions about the collective memory of mass violence worldwide.

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The Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County (HMTC) hosted a virtual book talk with New York Times bestselling author Julie Metz on April 12, 2021, about her newest book, “Eva and Eve.” Interweaving personal memoir and family history, this book vividly traces the author’s search for her mother’s lost childhood in Nazi-occupied Vienna and reveals the resilience needed to survive during history’s darkest hours.

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The Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County (HMTC) celebrated Passover by remembering some of the recipes of pre-war Europe. On March 23, 2021, HMTC presented a virtual cookie baking demonstration by Jake Cohen, a former food staffer at Saveur and food editor of Tasting Table and Time Out New York, who had recently published his first cookbook Jew-ish. He showed us how to make his great Aunt Lotte's Kosher for Passover meringue cookies with walnuts and dark chocolate.

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