As part of the conditions of the grant, the City Tech Library will hostrf public events that will examine common themes between the current era and the events surrounding the Holocaust. Our primary goals are to educate middle, high school and college students on the history of the Holocaust; to host events with survivors and scholars who will bring their experiences and knowledge to the public; and to emphasize the ways in which the Holocaust was both unique to its historical moment and yet germane to the twenty-first century.
| Date | Event |
| Tuesday, November 28 |
Overview & Introduction to “Americans and the Holocaust” |
| Thursday, November 30 | Racism, Eugenics & Antisemitism: Connections between Jim Crow and the Nuremberg Race Laws Tom White, Coordinator of Educational Outreach, Cohen Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Keene State College |
| Monday, December 4 |
The Evian Conference and the Refugee Crisis: 85 Years Later Dr. Diane F. Afoumado, Chief of the Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |
| Tuesday, December 5 |
Immigration in the US Then and Now: From the 1920s to the 2020s Prof. Samuel Finesurrey, (Guttman Community College), in conversation with college students |
| Thursday, December 7 | Nazis in America and Anti-Nazi Protests Prof. Elke Weesjes Sabella, Research and Programming Director Kingsborough Holocaust Center, Kingsborough Community College. |
| Thursday, December 14 | China’s Jewish Refugees: The 1946 Shanghai Photographs of Arthur Rothstein Dr. Annie Rothstein Segan, director of the Arthur Rothstein Legacy Project |