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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Whose stories do we hear when we learn about veterans? HMTC is teaming up with the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum for a program that explores policies that effected LGBTQ+ service members during and after WWII. Michael Stevens, a Museum Educator in the Intrepid' s Lifelong Learning Programs, will draw from research about who served, and who did not serve, on the Intrepid during its years in service from 1943-1974 to raise larger questions of how changes in military policies impacted the diversity of the ship's crew and reflected cultural change in the United States.

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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) presents a fun and free virtual Story Time! Together we will read All are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold and talk about what it means to include others and celebrate others.

In this virtual “Curator’s Corner” from December 16, 2020, Dr. Thorin Tritter, HMTC’s Museum and Programming Director, talked about an image in our gallery that shows the burning of books in Hamburg, Germany in May of 1933. Organized by university students, the photograph captures a disturbing moment, early in the Nazi regime’s rise to power, when destroying “un-German” books was seen as supporting the German nation. If you missed this program you can watch it now on YouTube:

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