HMTC is joining with a number of community partners to present a program on Yom Hashoah about the dangers of white nationalism and hate in America today. The central speaker will be Christian Picciolini, an award-winning television producer, public speaker, author, peace advocate, and reformed violent extremist. His life’s work bears witness to an ongoing and profound need to atone for a grisly past and an urgency to make something of his time on this planet by contributing to the greater good.

Please note that this program will be held at Temple Sinai of Roslyn at 425 Roslyn Road, Roslyn Heights, NY 11577.

Photo ID required for admission. All attendees 16 years of age and older must furnish proof of vaccination. Those under 16 must furnish proof of a negative Covid test dated April 28. All attendees must be properly masked at all times.

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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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HMTC is hosting a program with renowned pianist and composer Renan Koen, Maestro Gürer Aykal, Sephardic scholar Dr. Joe Halio, and others to provide a behind the scenes look at some of the music to be performed at the Carnegie Hall concert on April 20 when Holocaust Survivor Michel Assael’s “Auschwitz Symphonic Poem,” written in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust, will be performed for the first time.

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HMTC and the David Taub Reel Upstander Film Series presented a screening of The Codebreaker in honor of women’s history month. The film reveals the fascinating story of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, the groundbreaking cryptanalyst whose painstaking work to decode thousands of messages for the U.S. government sent infamous gangsters to prison in the 1930s and brought down a massive, near-invisible Nazi spy ring in WWII. Commentary was provided by Melissa Davis, the Library and Archives Director at the George C. Marshall Foundation, which holds the papers of Elizebeth Smith Friedman.

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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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HMTC hosted a program with Silvia Foti, an award-winning investigative journalist and the author of The Nazi's Granddaughter: How I Discovered My Grandfather Was A War Criminal, who spoke about how she discovered an official cover-up by the Lithuanian government about her grandfather’s role in the Holocaust. Her grandmother had urged her to “Just let history lie,” but Silvia did not understand the scale of what she would uncover. We learned about the way Holocaust history is distorted for national goals in Lithuania and in other countries of the former Soviet Union.

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HMTC, in conjunction with the David Taub Reel Upstander Film Series, is presented a screening of an episode of The American Experience which explores American antisemitism during the Holocaust, the apathy of the U.S. State Department, and the deliberate suppression of information that European Jews were slated for genocide. We were joined by Chris Boian from the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) who provided a commentary and answer questions about refugee issues around the world today.

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HMTC hosted a virtual panel discussion with Cathryn Siegal-Bergman (translator of Going Back), Mimi Schwartz (author of Good Neighbors, Bad Times Revisited), and Ellen Cassedy (author of We Are Here), three women who have explored how various individuals found ways, against all odds, to reclaim their heritage, history, and birthright after the Holocaust. They will also discuss how working on these books also transformed their own lives.

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