You’re invited to partner with HMTC as we continue to lead the fight against antisemitism and hate here Long Island and throughout New York.

We need you now. And we need you for the future – for HMTC to continue, enhance, and expand its critical education programs for students of all backgrounds.

At this kick-off event, you’ll experience HMTC’s vital work, including new artificial intelligence technology that keeps Holocaust survivor stories alive. Tour our exhibits, meet our community, and see how together, we can build a future we’re proud of. 

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Please join us on Zoom for this discussion of Julie Orringer’s “The Flight Portfolio,” at our monthly book club, hosted by HMTC’s Louis Posner Memorial Library.

Varian Fry, an affluent Protestant New Yorker, drawn to Europe’s art, music and literary heritage, finds nothing but barbarism in France in 1940. He heads to Marseille as a volunteer in a privately organized mission, the Emergency Rescue Committee, whose mandate, encouraged by Eleanor Roosevelt, is to facilitate escape for luminaries in the arts, virtually all of them Jews. His experiences there, told in fictional form, fairly bristle with peril, subterfuge, forgery and unrelenting hostility. But in the end he saves the lives of more than 2,000 desperate souls.

For additional information, please contact Dr. Linda Burghardt, scholar-in-residence and discussion leader, at lindaburghardt@hmtcli.org or 516.571.8040.

Please join us on Zoom for this discussion of Ellen Feldman's "The Living and the Lost," at our monthly book club, hosted by HMTC’s Louis Posner Memorial Library. Working in bombed-out Berlin after the war is like living in a latter-day Wild West, where spies ply their trade, black markets thrive and forbidden fraternization is rampant. But Millie Mosbach and her brother, David, who escaped to the US just before Kristallnacht, leaving their parents and little sister behind in Berlin, must make peace with their rage at Germany and their guilt for their own good fortune, if they are to confront the demons of their past and work successfully to rebuild the city.

Monday, May 16, 2022, at 6:00 p.m.

Westbury Manor

1100 Jericho Turnpike, Westbury, NY 11590

Attire: Smart Casual

Join us in person for this annual event celebrating the upstanders in our community. The event will include a taste of Long Island’s best restaurants, an auction, and a presentation of the Friedlander Upstander Awards to middle and high school students.

If you would like to make a donation of items such as jewelry, artwork, crystal, restaurant gift certificates, show or sporting event tickets, designer handbags, etc., for our Silent Auction please contact Gayle Peck at (516) 571-8040 or gaylepeck@hmtcli.org.

All funds raised at the event will be used to support HMTC's educational programming, which is more critical than ever.

For more information or if you have any questions, contact Gayle Peck at (516) 571-8040 or gaylepeck@hmtcli.org.

We look forward to seeing you on Monday, May 16!

Event Committee

Harriet Becker

Andrea Bolender

Ronald Brunell

Meris First

Peter Klein

Alan Mindel

Michele Raphael

Patricia Schneider

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.

If you missed this program you can watch it now on Youtube:

HMTC needs your help now more than ever. Your donation will support HMTC’s virtual programming for students and adults. Help us continue to be able to provide Holocaust and Tolerance Education programs to schools and public programs for the community.

On May 18, 2021, The Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County held a virtual panel discussion with three recent college graduates about antisemitism on college campuses today and productive ways for students to respond to the antisemitism they face. Senator Anna Kaplan, who has proposed new legislation to combat antisemitism and hate speech, offered introductory remarks to kick off the program. Senator Anna Kaplan, who has proposed new legislation to combat antisemitism and hate speech, offered introductory remarks to kick off the program.

If you missed this program you can watch it now on Youtube:

HMTC needs your help now more than ever. Your donation will support HMTC’s virtual programming for students and adults. Help us continue to be able to provide Holocaust and Tolerance Education programs to schools and public programs for the community.

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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The Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County (HMTC) marked the anniversary of the Armenian Genocide on April 25, 2021, with a virtual program focusing on the multi-generational history of one Glen Cove family. There were presentations by Ashod & Onelia Spendjian and their sons Aram and Garen, as well as a reading of a first-hand account of the genocide, written by Garen and Aram’s great grandmother, and a virtual visit to the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial in Yerevan, Armenia. An introduction was given by Rev. Fr. Dr. Abraham Malkhasyan, from the Armenian Church of the Holy Martyrs in Bayside.

If you missed this program you can watch it now on Youtube:

HMTC needs your help now more than ever. Your donation will support HMTC’s virtual programming for students and adults. Help us continue to be able to provide Holocaust and Tolerance Education programs to schools and public programs for the community.

The Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County (HMTC) and the Nassau Community College co-sponsored a virtual conference on April 16, 2021, about drawing lessons from the Holocaust as we combat extremism today.

Speakers included: Peter Black from USHMM, Professor Todd Pittinsky from Stony Brook University, Amy Goodman from Democracy Now! and Dexter Hedgepeth from the Nassau County Office of Minority Affairs, and others.

If you missed this conference when it was first held, you can watch it now on Youtube: .

The Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County (HMTC) presents a special free and fun virtual story time with Holocaust survivor Mireille Taub. Together, we will read The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt and talk about what it means to include others and be a good friend. (Designed for ages 3-7.)

HMTC needs your help now more than ever. Your donation will support HMTC’s virtual programming for students and adults. Help us continue to be able to provide Holocaust and Tolerance Education programs to schools and public programs for the community.

This online class, “Preserving Your Family Story: How to Prepare a Personal Presentation about the Holocaust,” is designed to help the descendants of Holocaust Survivors (2G and 3G) explore, preserve and present their family stories, safeguarding them for future generations.

The class will meet online eight times, every two weeks from January through April. Participants will learn about ways to research, hone and share their family histories in classes that will provide background information and go over easy-to-use steps to produce powerful presentations that connect the past to the present. The goal of the eight sessions is to have a completed draft of a family narrative by the completion of the course.

The class will be led by Helen Turner, HMTC’s Director of Education, and Thorin Tritter, HMTC’s Museum and Programming Director. Guest speakers will include filmmaker Tyler Gidlin, author Meryl Ain, and the executive director of JewishGen.org, Avraham Groll.

Participants should anticipate the need to conduct their own research during the course and will be expected to complete bi-weekly written homework assignments. (College credit may be available.)

Cost: $250 per person

Class meetings are every other Thursday, from January 21 to April 29, from 2:30-4:00 p.m.
(January 21, February 4 & 18, March 4 & 18, April 1,15 & 29)

For more information contact Helen Turner or Thorin Tritter at (516) 517-8040.

In this virtual “Curator’s Corner” from November 4, 2020, Dr. Thorin Tritter, HMTC’s Museum and Programming Director, focused on a photograph in HMTC’s museum of the Kanada warehouse in Auschwitz, a strangely named part of Auschwitz, where the stolen possessions of the millions of deportees, most of whom were Jews who had been murdered in the gas chambers, were gathered, sorted and prepared for sending back to Germany. If you missed this program you can watch it now:

HMTC needs your help now more than ever. Your donation will support HMTC’s virtual programming for students and adults. Help us continue to be able to provide Holocaust and Tolerance Education programs to schools and public programs for the community.

In this workshop, HMTC will walk educators through our online resources for Holocaust and Tolerance Education programs. Whether your school is online, in person or a hybrid mix, HMTC is here to help you navigate this difficult topic in an unconventional classroom.

You will meet HMTC’s Education staff during this workshop, see demonstrations of HMTC’s virtual museum tours and programs, and find out what you need to do to book programs.

For more information contact Helen Turner at helenturner@hmtcli.org.

HMTC needs your help now more than ever. Your donation will support HMTC’s virtual programming for students and adults. Help us continue to be able to provide Holocaust and Tolerance Education programs to schools and public programs for the community.