In this program, the next in our series of presentations by the children of Holocaust Survivors (2Gs), Meryl Menashe presented the story of her father-in-law Nissim Menashe and two other family members, all of whom grew up in the thriving Jewish community of Salonica, Greece before the war. Out of 58 known family members from Greece who experienced the Nazi invasion, they are the only three that survived. Meryl also shared a family connection to Michel Assael, whose “Auschwitz Symphonic Poem” will debut at a Carnegie Hall performance on April 20.

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HMTC co-sponsored a program held by the Museum of Jewish Heritage about the German American Bund’s Camp Siegfried, which operated in Yaphank in the 1930s. The program featured a panel discussion between Bess Wohl, playwright of Camp Siegfried; Bradley W. Hart, author of Hitler’s American Friends: The Third Reich’s Supporters in the United States; and Arnie Bernstein, author of Swastika Nation: Fritz Kuhn & the Rise and Fall of the German-American Bund. The conversation was moderated by Randi F. Marshall, Editorial Writer at Newsday.

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In this program, the second in our series of presentations by the children of Holocaust Survivors (2Gs), Debbie Cohn presents the story of her mother, Ilse Loeb (neé Morgenstern). Ilse grew up in Vienna, but in the wake of “Kristallnacht,” at the age of 13, her parents sent her to the Netherlands for safety. Ilse was later forced into hiding, moving to various locations to keep ahead of the Nazis. While she survived the war, she never saw her parents again.

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Throughout the Holocaust, thousands of refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe sought healing and hope in Manhattan's neighborhood of Washington Heights, making it home to the world's largest German-Jewish community in the aftermath of the war. What did Washington Heights offer and how did this iconic community help these refugees become Americans? We hosted a presentation about this unique neighborhood, one that offered German and Austrian Jews, and other Survivors who followed later, the strength and resilience to overcome their inestimable loss.

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The Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County (HMTC)’s Virtual Upstanders Awards took place on May 10, 2021. For the past eleven years, the Friedlander Upstander Awards have been presented to students who have intervened during a bullying incident or act of intolerance. Award recipients are exceptional youth who advocate for those in need or stand up against peer pressure and they are rewarded with an educational scholarship of $5,000 provided by the Claire Friedlander Family Foundation.

This event was a fundraiser in support of HMTC’s Holocaust and Tolerance Education programs for students and adults.

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