We have a great variety of events coming up — both virtual and in person. We hope you’ll join us and be part of our mission to combat antisemitism and hate through Holocaust education.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Monday, March 13, 2023, 12:30 pm - Sid Jacobson JCC

Love, Laughter and Latkes: The Golden Age of the Catskills Featuring Dr. Linda Burghardt

Scholar-in-Residence, Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County

Days at the pool or the tennis court, nights in the casino or the comedy club. This was summer in the Catskills in the ‘40s, ‘50s and ‘60s, the glory days of the mountain playlands that warmly welcomed Yiddish-speaking immigrants and refugees, along with their families. In hotels, bungalow colonies, tiny kuchalaynes and lavish resorts, the entertainment was A-list and the non-stop food was kosher. Join us for the story of the Borscht Belt, which reshaped the Jewish American experience, helped Americanize Holocaust survivors and profoundly changed American culture.

Tickets are $15 per person at the door. Registration is not required in advance.

Thursday, March 16, 2023, 2:00pm - Great Neck Public Library, Main Branch

A Haven from the Holocaust: Washington Heights and the Jews of Europe - Lecture presentation by Dr. Linda F. Burghardt, Scholar-in-Residence, Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County

Throughout the Holocaust, thousands of refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe sought healing and hope in Manhattan’s Washington Heights neighborhood, making it home to the world’s largest German-Jewish community in the aftermath of the war. What did Washington Heights offer them, and how did this iconic community help them become Americans? Join us for a presentation about this unique neighborhood, one that offered the German and Austrian Jews and the other Survivors who followed later the strength and resilience to overcome their inestimable loss.

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Tuesday, March 21, 2023, 6:00pm ET on Zoom (Virtual)

2G Tuesdays with Peter Kind and his Mother, Survivor Margaret Kind

Peter Kind will join his mother, Margaret Kind, a survivor of the Shoah, to present Margaret’s story. Margaret lived in Romania until March 1944 when her family was sent to a ghetto. From there, the family was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau where Margaret’s parents, maternal grandparents, and younger brother were murdered on the night of their arrival. After six months at Auschwitz, Margaret and her younger sister were sent to work at a Volkswagen munitions factory and then to Salzwedel concentration camp, where she was liberated by US troops in April 1945.

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Wednesday, April 19, 2023, 1:00pm (Virtual)

April Book Club - "The Librarian Spy," by Madeline Martin

Through a complicated system of spy channels, an American librarian in Lisbon works out a formula to make a clandestine connection with a French Resistance fighter in Lyon to help save Jewish lives from Nazi aggression. In those dark days of Europe in 1942, one small light shines on a smuggled printing press and the men and women who risk their lives to operate it, illuminating the power of words to achieve what guns and bombs cannot. 

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Tuesday, April 25, 2023, 6pm Reception, 7pm Dinner/Awards - Crest Hollow Country Club

Long Island Imagine Awards - HMTC is a Finalist!

We're excited to share that HMTC was selected as a finalist for the Long Island Imagine Awards in the Innovations category for its work preserving Holocaust survivor testimony using artificial intelligence. We'll find out if we're a winner of a $5,000 prize at the awards event on April 25th. We'd love for our community members to attend the event and show your support for HMTC and many other deserving Long Island nonprofits. We're thrilled to be recognized for this important work for the future of Holocaust education! You can also vote for HMTC to win additional fundin

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Monday, May 15, 2023, 6:00pm - Westbury Manor

2023 Annual Upstander Awards Event

Join us for one of our most anticipated annual events celebrating the upstanders in our community. The event will include a taste of Long Island’s best restaurants, an auction, and a presentation of the Friedlander Upstander Awards to middle and high school students. We thank the Claire Friedlander Family Foundation for generously presenting four Long Island students with these scholarships.

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Sunday, June 25, 2023, 8:00 - 11:00am - HMTC and Welwyn Preserve

Striding for Survivors - HMTC's First-Ever 5K Walk/Run

Join HMTC at Welwyn Preserve for our first-ever 5K walk/run in recognition of all of the incredible survivors in our lives and in our hearts. Survivor Leo Ullman (a triathlete and Ironman competitor) will be the honoree for this year’s event. You can walk, jog, run — do it your way. All ages and abilities welcome, and strollers, too. Join us and show your support for our beloved survivors and HMTC’s mission to combat antisemitism and hate through Holocaust and tolerance education. Additional information to come.

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Monday, July 31, 2023 - Meadow Brook Club

14th Annual Golf Outing Honoring Peter Klein

Join us for our annual golf outing honoring Peter Klein, valued HMTC board member, chief investment officer and founder of ALINE Wealth, and president of the Claire Friedlander Family Foundation. The golf outing is one of HMTC’s most popular events and we hope to see you there!

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