What is UPSTANDER WEEK?
County Executive Robert Astorino has officially declared May 29 – June 1, 2012, as Upstander Week. This special week is meant to encourage student activism and awareness by inspiring students to become “upstanders” (rather than bystanders) – and to take an active role in changing the world. It is a call to action for participating schools to get their communities involved by hosting an event to bring attention to a particular human rights issue.
Educators Field Study Trip to Germany & Poland June 30 - July 15 2012
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~ To inspire and motivate area middle and high school educators in their preparation to teach the lessons of the Holocaust to their students.
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~ To combine visits to Holocaust memorials, including two concentration camps in Germany and a death camp in Poland with meeting with representatives of Human Rights organizations in both countries. |
Yom HaShoah Commemorations Thursday, April 19, 2012
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Countywide Commemoration 10 AM - 12 Noon Outwitting the Nazis to save thousands of Jewish children. A screening of Irena Sendler: In the Name of their Mothers for students will be followed by a candle lighting ceremony and Keynote speaker Ruth Bachner, a Holocaust survivor. Co-sponsors: Westchester Jewish Council & Jacob Burns Film Center Limited Seating, Please RSVP
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Commemoration Ceremony 6:00 PM This event will have a screening of Testimony of the Human Spirit to be followed by the commentary of two Holocaust survivors featured in the documentary. Meet Judith Alter Kallman author of A Candle in the Heart: Memoir of a Child Survivor and Rabbi Emeritus Amiel Wohl from Temple Israel of New Rochelle, will lead the ceremony. Co-sponsor: Justice Brandeis Law Society
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Hunting Eichmann: Distinguished Lecture 7:30 PM A distinguished lecture by Neal Bascomb, author of Hunting Eichmann, a narrative on the pursuit and capture of Adolf Eichmann. The Susan J. Goldberg Memorial Teacher Award will be presented. Co-sponsor: Iona College
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Human Rights Institute for March 14, 2012 Three hundred students and teachers attended the HHREC Human Rights Institute of High School Students Leaders to hear Rwandan genocide survivor Jacqueline Murekatete speak about her experience. Students participated in workshops on various human rights issues to discuss ways of empowering other students to become upstanders rather than bystanders.
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Distinguished Lecture by March 29, 2012 Bernd Wollschlaeger MD, author of A German Life, spoke about his experience as a son of a highly decorated German military officer during WWII and how this impacted his own life decisions. Over two hundred-fifty community members attended this distinguished lecture. Focus Seminar on the March 21, 2012 Expanding our human rights mission to include additional examples of genocide, twenty-five local teachers attended this Focus Seminar. |
Westchester's Holocaust Survivors October 2011 As the number of Holocaust survivors in the county decreases, those who remain find sharing their stories all the more important.
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