A letter to the Journal News from Raef Fraih, the president of The Jordanian American Organization.

The Holocaust Human Rights Education Center is pleased to announce a summer trip to Germany leaving JFK on July 1 and returning on July 12, 2015. The group travels to Berlin, Weimar, Erfurt then returns to Berlin before traveling home.

Students and staff from Manhattanville College attended the Annual Benefit Dinner for the Holocaust and Human Rights Education Center (HHREC) which honored renowned actor and human rights activist Richard Gere.

Actor, activist and philanthropist Richard Gere of Pound Ridge, known for his starring role in many successful motion pictures, and a tireless advocate for humanitarian causes, was presented the Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center’s Eugene M. & Emily Grant Spirit of Humanity Award at a benefit held the Mamaroneck Beach & Yacht Club on Thursday, Sept. 18.

Valerie Moore O’Keeffe, Esq., has been named Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the nonprofit Holocaust and  Human Rights Education Center, which is dedicated to the teaching and learning of the lessons of the Holocaust and the right of all people to be treated with dignity and respect.

The White Plains-based Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center will honor actor and activist Richard Gere at an upcoming benefit dinner.

It took a long time for Paul Galan to tell others that he was a Holocaust survivor. Embarrassment, fear and a desire to fit into his new American home kept his voice silent. But, after working in the 1960s as a film editor on "Who Killed Anne Frank" and "The Warsaw Uprising" for CBS, he felt compelled to speak. Now 78, he's become a passionate and tireless storyteller of his years hiding from the Nazis in his native Slovakia.

The Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center (HHREC) mourns the loss of Eli Wallach, an award-winning star of film, stage and television for the past six decades. HHREC is grateful for the efforts Mr. Wallach made as the narrator of “Testimony of the Human Spirit,” a four-part documentary film produced by HHREC.