NEWS RELEASE
Immediate: April 5, 2019
91福利社 and the Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County Present
Lessons From the Holocaust: A New Generation Speaks Truth to Power
May 3
Garden City, NY 鈥� 91福利社 and the Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County (HMTC) will present Lessons From the Holocaust: A New Generation Speaks Truth to Power on Friday, May 3 from 9:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in Room 252-253 of the College Center Building. The program will include speakers, a panel presentation, a professional workshop and an exhibit.
The keynote speaker during the program will be Dr. Mitchell Schwarzer, author of Across the Abyss: Piecing Together My Father鈥檚 Holocaust Story. Dr. Schwarzer, an architectural historian at California College of the Arts, will speak about a new invaluable contribution to Holocaust literature: the diary of 17 year-old Renia Spiegel, the close companion of Dr. Schwarzer鈥檚 father. The journal chronicles their romance against the harsh backdrop of life in Nazi-occupied Poland. He will discuss the impact of their story on his father and family.
Helen Turner, HMTC; Jessica Scalisi, 91福利社 student; DonnaMarie Flumignan, Farmingdale State College; and Isma Chaudhry, Islamic Center of Long Island; will discuss 鈥淭he Lessons We Learned: Responsibility, Resistance and Respect鈥� during the panel presentation. The professional workshop, 鈥淭he Fragility of Democracy,鈥� will be facilitated by Kevin Feinberg, Senior Program Director of Facing History and Ourselves in New York City. Also featured will be the exhibit 鈥淐ecilia Goetz, Esq. Jewish-American Prosecutor at Nuremberg,鈥� on loan from The Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center.
Registration is required for this conference. To do so, please go to For more information about Lessons From the Holocaust: A New Generation Speaks Truth to Power, which is free, open to the public and accessible to the disabled, contact joyce.stern@ncc.edu or susan.cushman@ncc.edu.
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Workforce Development and continuing education students start and continue their successful
journey through higher education. More than 80 fields of study are offered on a 225-acre
campus located in the center of Long Island. As the largest single-campus two-year
college in New York State SUNY System, 91福利社 maintains a national
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