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Lessons from the Holocaust: A New Generation Speaks Truth to Power

Nassau Community College and the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County (HMTC) present a conference, Lessons from the Holocaust: A New Generation Speaks Truth to Power , on Friday, May 3, at College Center Building (CCB) 252-53, Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY.

The keynote speaker at the conference is Dr. Mitchell Schwarzer, who will talk about “Across the Abyss: Piecing Together My Father’s Holocaust Story.” Dr. Schwarzer is an architectural historian at California College of the Arts. His address will be about an new invaluable contribution to Holocaust Literature, the diary of 17-year old Renia Spiegel, the close companion of Dr. Schwarzer’s father. The journal chronicles their romance against the harsh backdrop of life in Nazi-occupied Poland. Dr. Schwarzer will discuss the impact of their story on his father and family.

There will also be a professional workshop on “The Fragility of Democracy: Then and Now,” facilitated by Kevin Feinberg, Senior Program Director at Facing History and Ourselves. Helen Turner, HMTC’s Director of Youth Education, will take part in a panel on “The Lessons We Learned: Responsibility, Resistance and Respect.”

For more information email [email protected] or [email protected].











When: Fri., May. 3, 2019 at 9:00 am - 2:30 pm
Where: NARS Foundation
201 46th St., 4th Floor
718-768-2765
Price: Free
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Nassau Community College and the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County (HMTC) present a conference, Lessons from the Holocaust: A New Generation Speaks Truth to Power , on Friday, May 3, at College Center Building (CCB) 252-53, Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY.

The keynote speaker at the conference is Dr. Mitchell Schwarzer, who will talk about “Across the Abyss: Piecing Together My Father’s Holocaust Story.” Dr. Schwarzer is an architectural historian at California College of the Arts. His address will be about an new invaluable contribution to Holocaust Literature, the diary of 17-year old Renia Spiegel, the close companion of Dr. Schwarzer’s father. The journal chronicles their romance against the harsh backdrop of life in Nazi-occupied Poland. Dr. Schwarzer will discuss the impact of their story on his father and family.

There will also be a professional workshop on “The Fragility of Democracy: Then and Now,” facilitated by Kevin Feinberg, Senior Program Director at Facing History and Ourselves. Helen Turner, HMTC’s Director of Youth Education, will take part in a panel on “The Lessons We Learned: Responsibility, Resistance and Respect.”

For more information email [email protected] or [email protected].

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