For two weeks in August 1936, Adolf Hitler’s Nazi dictatorship camouflaged its racist, militaristic character while hosting the Summer Olympics.

Caught within the ever-approaching steel jaws of Nazi exterminators, 19-year-old Leah Steppel from Dusseldorf successfully escapes Europe via Portugal — thanks to a precious visa from Aristides de Sousa Mendes

Liberation Heroes: The Last Eyewitnesses, explores the journeys of Liberators and Liberator Witnesses drawing parallels between the past and present.

Join Susan Eisenhower, author of “How Ike Led”, to learn about her grandfather’s vigilance to preserve the truth about the Holocaust. 

In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Wednesday, January 27, the Holocaust Documentation & Education Center is thrilled to...

In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Wednesday, January 27, the Holocaust Documentation & Education Center, Inc. is sharing and will feature the following online programs.

Eva Zelig‘s documentary An Unknown Country tells the story of European Jews who fled Nazi persecution to find refuge in an unlikely destination: Ecuador.

Join film director Cellin Gluck, Sugihara Diplomats for Life Foundation Chairman Linas Venclauskas, and Staci Rosenthal from Facing History & Ourselves for a discussion on the unknown story of Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat (sometimes called the Schindler of Japan).

Project Witness presents “The Jews of Italy During the Holocaust.”

From the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Amid a surge in antisemitic incidents more than 75 years after the Holocaust, join experts to learn what motivates people to join extremist groups

Return to Calais is a short documentary film linking refugees past and present.

For this presentation, Dr. Meinecke will discuss “Myths of the Holocaust – What is True – What is Not.”

Dr. Lina Insana, with Classrooms Without Borders educator Kate Lukaszewicz, will speak about Primo Levi’s biographical novel, “Survival in Auschwitz”.

Go behind the scenes and get to know some of the colorful characters who participated in Operation Zebra — the 1947-49 mission to help rescue newborn Israel’s 600,000 Jews and provide a safe haven for Holocaust Survivors.

As the Holocaust Documentation & Education Center continues to feature and offer a wide variety of topics on the Holocaust, today we are adding...

“New Year, Old Problem: Antisemitism in America” with Holly Huffnagle, U.S. Director for Combatting Antisemitism for the American Jewish Committee.

“An Introduction to the Holocaust” with Dr. Michael Berenbaum.

“A 3G Fireside Chat Around the Menorah”. This program is Co-presented by Liberation75’s 3G Committee and 3GNY.

Join us to hear from Anna Scheumann Gallegos, who will tell her grandfather Max’s story.

During this two-part digital program, join experts to learn about Iran’s lesser-known connection to the Holocaust, hear about a daughter’s decade-long journey in the footsteps of her “Tehran Child” father, and examine why retracing this history is relevant today. not only to Iranians, but all of humanity.

Discussion with Slawek Pastuszka: “Restoring The Memory of Jewish Communities in Poland”

Free online screening of “The Tattooed Torah” followed by a live webinar Q&A in partnership with The Los Angeles Film Festival, Jewish Journal and The Goldrich Family Foundation in association with USC Shoah Foundation.

In February 1943, at the height of the deportations from France, a daring group of Jewish and Christian women banded together to stage the largest single rescue operation in wartime Paris

The Holocaust Documentation & Education Center is delighted to share the following series “Herzl Explained” with David Matlow, friend of the HDEC, who is in possession of the world’s largest private collection of Theodor Herzl memorabilia.

At the age of 27, in his first turn as prosecutor, Benjamin Ferencz led what was then called “the biggest murder trial in history.”

In June 1940, Aristides de Sousa Mendes, the Portuguese Consul-General in Bordeaux, France, issued life-saving visas to thousands of Holocaust refugees in defiance of his government’s direct orders – an action for which he paid a heavy personal price.

Jewish Life Through the 20th Century and the evolving meaning of Israel with Holocaust Survivor, Judy Rodan.

As the Holocaust Documentation & Education Center continues to feature and offer a wide variety of topics on the Holocaust, today we are adding...

Staten Island’s P.S. 22 Choir singing the Holocaust Poem “Who Am I?”

Did you know that there were Jewish refugees in Iowa during World War II? Tune in to learn about this fascinating and untold story.