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The lessons of the Holocaust offer an unparalleled opportunity to address the cultural, educational, and civic needs of our diverse community.

The Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC) is neither a museum nor a library: We are a learning laboratory where students, survivors, and community members learn through their hearts, minds, and actions.

10/04/2026

Join the KHC virtually or in person tomorrow, Monday, October 5, 2026 at 2:15pm EDT for "Anti-Jewish Folklore and the Rise of Antisemitism Before, During and After the Holocaust."

The first written account of an anti-Jewish folktale is a tale of English or German origin, published in 1228. From the Middle Ages to the Modern Era, these folktales helped fuel the anti-Jewish prejudice prevalent within and beyond Western society. By the nineteenth century, the tales assisted in paving the way for anti-Judaism to transition into antisemitism; subsequently, the N***s were then able to capitalize on these stories as objects of antisemitic propaganda. Join Dr. Sofia Lago, Lecturer of English for Academic Purposes at Suzhou University, for a discussion about how these counternarratives served to inflame rampant antisemitism perpetuated by Hi**er’s N**i party.

This event is part of the 2026-27 Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC) and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Colloquium, “Storytelling in/as Resistance.”

To attend in person: https://khc-10-5-2026.eventbrite.com
To attend online: https://tinyurl.com/yc82fp7b

09/25/2026

Join the KHC virtually or in person Monday, October 5, 2026 at 2:15pm EDT for "Anti-Jewish Folklore and the Rise of Antisemitism Before, During and After the Holocaust."

The first written account of an anti-Jewish folktale is a tale of English or German origin, published in 1228. From the Middle Ages to the Modern Era, these folktales helped fuel the anti-Jewish prejudice prevalent within and beyond Western society. By the nineteenth century, the tales assisted in paving the way for anti-Judaism to transition into antisemitism; subsequently, the N***s were then able to capitalize on these stories as objects of antisemitic propaganda. Join Dr. Sofia Lago, Lecturer of English for Academic Purposes at Suzhou University, for a discussion about how these counternarratives served to inflame rampant antisemitism perpetuated by Hi**er’s N**i party.

This event is part of the 2026-27 KHC and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Colloquium, “Storytelling in/as Resistance.”

To attend in person: https://khc-10-5-2026.eventbrite.com
To attend online: https://tinyurl.com/yc82fp7b

This event is co-sponsored by Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies; TOLI - The Olga Lengyel Institute for Holocaust Studies and Human Rights; Reiff Center at Christopher Newport University; Cohen Institute for Holocaust & Genocide Studies; Holocaust and Human Rights Education Center; Martin-Springer Institute at NAU; The Ray Wolpow Institute; The Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive; Rutgers Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights; The Legacy Foundation at Mount Hebron Cemetery; SCSU Center For Holocaust & Genocide Education; Queens College Center for Jewish Studies; and the Holocaust, Genocide & Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan University.

09/22/2026

Join the KHC virtually or in person tomorrow, September 23, 2026 at 2:30pm EDT for "Eve Adams: Daring Life, Dangerous Times."

In 1912, Chawa Złoczower, a Jewish Polish immigrant made her way to the US and soon helped publicize the anarchist speeches of Emma Goldman. Later, Złoczower took the name Eve Adams, and toured America, getting paid to sell radical leftist magazines. In 1925 she published a unique, pioneering book, "Le***an Love," containing stories of women she had met. Her activism drew the ire of US FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, ultimately leading to Adams’ deportation back to Poland and tragic murder in Auschwitz. Join Jonathan Ned Katz, historian and author of the 2021 biography, "The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams," for a conversation about Adams’ adventurous life, his work to uncover her story as a vibrant resistor, and what it means in today’s troubled social world.

This event is part of the 2026-27 Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC) and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Colloquium, “Storytelling in/as Resistance.”

To attend online visit: https://tinyurl.com/5cepswap
To attend in person visit: https://khc-9-23-2026.eventbrite.com

09/14/2026

Join the KHC virtually or in person next Wednesday, September 23, 2026 at 2:30pm EDT for "Eve Adams: Daring Life, Dangerous Times."

In 1912, Chawa Złoczower, a Jewish Polish immigrant made her way to the US and soon helped publicize the anarchist speeches of Emma Goldman. Later, Złoczower took the name Eve Adams, and toured America, getting paid to sell radical leftist magazines. In 1925 she published a unique, pioneering book, "Le***an Love," containing stories of women she had met. Her activism drew the ire of US FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, ultimately leading to Adams’ deportation back to Poland and tragic murder in Auschwitz. Join Jonathan Ned Katz, historian and author of the 2021 biography, "The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams," for a conversation about Adams’ adventurous life, his work to uncover her story as a vibrant resistor, and what it means in today’s troubled social world.

This event is part of the 2026-27 Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC) and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Colloquium, “Storytelling in/as Resistance.”

To attend online visit: https://tinyurl.com/5cepswap
To attend in person visit: https://khc-9-23-2026.eventbrite.com

This event is co-sponsored by CSI LGBTQ Resource Center Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies The Legacy Foundation at Mount Hebron Cemetery Reiff Center at Christopher Newport University The Ray Wolpow Institute The Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive Rutgers Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights
Queensborough Community College Pride Center; and the Holocaust, Genocide & Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan University

04/27/2026

Meet the speaker! Join Julie Orringer virtually or in person TOMORROW, Tuesday, April 28, 2026 at 12:30pm EDT for "Varian Fry: The Audacious American Journalist Who Saved Europe's Artists from the N***s."

Julie Orringer is the author of three award-winning books: "How to Breathe Underwater," "The Invisible Bridge," and "The Flight Portfolio," which was the basis for the 2023 Netflix series "Transatlantic." She is the winner of the Paris Review's Plimpton Prize and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center at the New York Public Library, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and MacDowell.

To attend online visit: https://tinyurl.com/4b2anz4w
To attend in person visit:
https://tinyurl.com/2nju9d9h

04/23/2026

Meet the speaker! Join Kendell Pinkney virtually TOMORROW, Friday, April 24, 2026 at 12:00pm EDT for the faculty workshop, "'What Would You Bring': Narrating Difficult Histories in the Classroom."

Kendell Pinkney serves as Director of Jewish Learning and Artist-in-Residence for Reboot. He is also the founding Artistic Director of The Workshop, a New York-based arts and culture fellowship that supports the work of professional artists of BIPOC-Jewish heritage, including the online exhibition, "What Would You Bring?", a Reboot production which inspired this event.

To attend online visit: https://tinyurl.com/yzww64n4

04/22/2026

Meet the speaker! Join Qinna Shen virtually or in person TOMORROW, Thursday, April 23, 2026 at 12:00pm EDT for "Finding Refuge at Bryn Mawr: The Exiled Mathematician Emmy Noether."

Qinna Shen received her Ph.D. in German from Yale and is Associate Professor and Chair of German at Bryn Mawr College. She is the author of "A Refugee Scholar from N**i Germany: Emmy Noether and Bryn Mawr College" ("The Mathematical Intelligencer," 2019) and "Jiny Lan and the Art of Subversion: Chinese German Culture and Politics through a Feminist Lens" (2025).

To attend online visit: https://tinyurl.com/y3nf5ecc
To attend in person visit:
https://tinyurl.com/yh3tahmk

04/21/2026

Meet the speaker! Join Dare Turner virtually TOMORROW, Wednesday, April 22, 2026 at 2:30pm EDT for "Curation as Care."

Dare Turner (Yurok Tribe) is an art historian and Curator of Indigenous Art at the Brooklyn Museum. She curated the Brooklyn Museum’s largest site-specific commission of Indigenous art, "Aaniin: I See Your Light," which transformed the Museum’s plaza by featuring beadwork designs by Nico Williams (Anishinaabe). Additionally, she co-curated "Towards Joy: New Frameworks for American Art," a radical reimagining of the American wing guided by Indigenous ways of knowing and Black feminist theory. At the Baltimore Museum of Art, she led the museum-wide initiative entitled "Preoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum," which included nine exhibitions, interpretative interventions across the museum, a publication guided by Native methodologies, and an array of public programs.

To attend online visit: https://tinyurl.com/52breuhs

04/20/2026

Join the KHC virtually or in person next week on Tuesday, April 28, 2026 at 12:30pm EDT for "Varian Fry: The Audacious American Journalist Who Saved Europe's Artists from the N***s."

August 1940. In New York, the Emergency Rescue Committee forms to save European artists blacklisted by Hi**er. But who will go to southern France to find the artists and do the rescuing? Enter Varian Fry, a New York journalist with deep knowledge of the European political situation but zero experience saving high profile would-be emigrés. How did Fry end up in this vital and delicate position? How did he find the artists on his list? Where did the artists hide while they awaited visas, and how did Fry help them negotiate the tangled red tape of wartime immigration? How did Fry's time in Marseille affect the rest of his life? In this presentation, novelist and professor Julie Orringer will take you on a virtual journey to wartime Marseille and show you how one daring American achieved the impossible: the saving of more than two thousand artists, including Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, André Breton, Hannah Arendt, and many others.

This event is part of the 2025-26 KHC and National Endowment for the Humanities Colloquium, “Resistance, Resilience and Reinvention: Artists and Academics Escaping N***sm.”

To attend online visit: https://tinyurl.com/4b2anz4w
To attend in person visit: https://tinyurl.com/2nju9d9h

04/16/2026

Join the KHC virtually next week on Friday, April 24, 2026 at 12:00pm EDT for a professional development workshop, "'What Would You Bring': Narrating Difficult Histories in the Classroom."

Brooklyn-based playwright and producer Kendell Pinkney will lead a faculty training workshop that is part of What Would You Bring?, a Fall 2026 interdisciplinary writing initiative. What Would You Bring? invites students to narrate personal and familial histories of forced migration and to imagine the objects they might bring with them if they had to flee their homes. Drawing from his background in theatre, Pinkney will discuss how educators can create safe spaces for difficult conversations in the classroom and share techniques for facilitating deep listening among participants. Pinkney serves as Director of Jewish Learning and Artist-in-Residence for Reboot. He is also the founding Artistic Director of The Workshop, a New York-based arts and culture fellowship that supports the work of professional artists of BIPOC-Jewish heritage, including the online exhibition What Would You Bring?, a Reboot production which inspired this collaboration between the Kupferberg Holocaust Center & QCC’s English Department.

To attend online visit: https://tinyurl.com/yzww64n4

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222-05 56th Avenue
New York, NY
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Telephone

+17182815770

Website

https://khc.qcc.cuny.edu/

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