The Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County presents its calendar of April 2021 virtual public programs:
Wednesday, April 7 at 12:00 Noon – Curator’s Corner: A Canister of Zyklon B
Dr. Thorin Tritter, HMTC’s Museum and Programming Director, will talk about the poison that was used by the Nazis to murder millions in the gas chambers of German killing centers. His talk will explore a photograph in our gallery that shows canisters in storage in the camp at Majdanek, discussing the development of this poison and the manufacturer, the chemical conglomerate IG Farben.
To register visit: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iwKLfMHNSRG0xRj15vKGpw
Thursday, April 8 at 12:00 Noon – Yom HaShoah Program
HMTC honors the victims and survivors of the Holocaust with its annual Yom HaShoah program. In 2021, our program is focusing on the importance passing the history of the Holocaust to the next generation and will include both Survivors and their grandchildren. The central presentation will made by the descendants of the Bielski brothers, who will discuss the Bielski Partisans who actively fought against the Nazis beginning in 1942. The commemoration program will also include Rabbi Howard Stecker, from Temple Israel of Great Neck, and Cantor Gustavo Gitlin, from Congregation Tifereth Israel in Glen Cove.
To register visit: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_u8VGEglAQ8GL6mQawobRpw
Monday, April 12 at 6:30 PM – Book Talk with Julie Metz about “Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother’s Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind”
HMTC is hosting a book discussion with New York Times bestselling author Julie Metz about her newest book, “Eva and Eve.” Interweaving personal memoir and family history, this book vividly traces the author’s search for her mother’s lost childhood in Nazi-occupied Vienna and reveals the resilience needed survive during history’s darkest hours.
To register visit: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_o0PWnbXlSMmWRHjfvC8edw
Wednesday, April 14 at 12:00 Noon – Virtual Museum Tour: The End of the War and Liberation
Join the HMTC’s Director of Education, Helen Turner, and the Museum and Programming Director, Thorin Tritter, as they lead visitors through a virtual tour of HMTC’s galleries, exploring the history of the Holocaust. Given the upcoming anniversaries associated with the liberation of Bergen-Belsen, Dachau, and other camps, the tour will focus on the end of the war and liberation.
To register visit: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_d_8ZR38bTKa0fCr3vtThkg
Friday, April 16 at 9:30-12:15 – Lessons from the Holocaust: Extremism Then and Now
HMTC and the Nassau Community College are co-sponsoring our biannual conference, this time as a virtual event, for students and the general public. The focus is on taking lessons from the Holocaust as we think about ways to combat extremism today. Speakers will include: historian Peter Black from the USHMM, Professor Todd Pittinsky from SUNY Stony Brook, Dexter Hedgepeth from the Nassau County Office of Minority Affairs, and others.
For Panel Presentation at 9:30, register at: https://ncc-zoom.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcrceusqDorG90iSOXTGe37bFcDmajjmM5m
For Deliberative Dialogue at 11:00, register at: https://ncc-zoom.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcpd–qqDMuHdIcmrQck_5v2ctQNUz9IT2t
Sunday, April 18 at 6:00 PM – Sundays with Survivors: Werner Reich
Join us for the next program in this series of presentations by Holocaust Survivors. In this program, Survivor Werner Reich will share information about his pre-war life in Berlin and Yugoslavia, his survival in Auschwitz, and his liberation from the camp at Mauthausen.
To register visit: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9TRuAoWqQU6qPOV2XeJ5dw
Wednesday, April 21 at 10:00 AM – Outdoor Yoga with Jolie
An Outdoor Yoga Class with yoga instructor, Jolie Bosnjak on the lawn in back of HMTC’s building. The class is $15 a person and all proceeds support HMTC’s Holocaust and Tolerance Education programs. Participants should bring their own yoga mats.
To register visit: https://interland3.donorperfect.net/weblink/weblink.aspx?id=63&name=E79210
Wednesday, April 21 at 12:00 Noon – Curator’s Corner: A Photograph from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
HMTC’s Museum and Programming Director, Dr. Thorin Tritter, will discuss a photograph in the museum taken during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, which was launched on April 19, 1943, 78 years ago this week. This actions in Warsaw, the largest and symbolically most important act of Jewish resistance during WWII, inspired uprisings in other ghettos (Bialystok and Minsk) and killing centers (Treblinka and Sobibor).
To register visit: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-CYemgjSQsKu6BgBPSAT9w
Sunday, April 25 at 1:00 PM – HMTC’s Armenian Genocide Commemoration
HMTC marks the anniversary of the Armenian Genocide with a program focusing on the multi-generational history of one Glen Cove family. Join us for presentations by Ashod & Onelia Spendjian and their sons Aram and Garen. The program will also include 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 will be given by Rev. Fr. Dr. Abraham Malkhasyan, from the Armenian Church of the Holy Martyrs in Bayside.
To register visit: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_j2LEyJeQQW-3_24VKV4q2A
Wednesday, April 28 at 12:00 Noon – Curator’s Corner: An American GI’s Description of the Liberation of Buchenwald
The Museum Director will discuss a letter sent by Jim Van Raalte, of the US Signal Corps, to his family in June of 1945, describing his first-hand account of visiting the concentration camp at Buchenwald in the immediate aftermath of its liberation. Notably included in the letter was a photograph of one of the first memorials erected to the victims of the Holocaust.
Register at: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XuBnJSl2RHuIPtWfX94LWg
For more information contact Dr. Thorin Tritter at (516) 571-8040 or programs@hmtcli.org.
