Wagner College Holocaust Remembrance Day

Wagner College

Holocaust Remembrance Day

Tuesday, April 25, 2006      6:00pm      Spiro Hall 2

Presented by Project Hospitality and ACE

Rabbi Judah Newberger, Spiritual Leader of Congregation Bnai Jeshurun

Rev. Dr. Terry Troia, Executive Director of Project Hospitality

Film clip: Witness to the Holocaust Deportation

Panel speakers:

Ernest Buehler (Staten Island resident and Holocaust Survivor)

Discussion topic: Focusing on Kristallnacht

Rabbi Jacob Jungreis

Rabbi of the Israel Center of Canarsie

Discussion topic: How it Happened

Marvin Ben-Aron (Staten Island resident and child of a Holocaust Survivor)

Youth Leader for Congregation Bnai Jeshurun

Discussion topic: Youth Issues 

Presentations by:

Sherry Fank and Alex Korkhov of the NYC Commission on Human Rights

Topic: Anti-Semitism and Bias Crimes

Rabbi Jacob Jungreis

Topic: How the emotional ground for atrocity is prepared

 Stevie Lacy-Pendleton of the Staten Island Advance

Topic: Contemporary Genocide 

Rabbi Judah Newberger

Topic: Creating a permanent Holocaust Memorial on Staten Island

Closing ceremony led by: Rabbi Jacob Jungreis