Tag: the Holocaust

  • Samsel Upper Elementary remembers the Holocaust

    Samsel Upper Elementary remembers the Holocaust

    PHOTOS COURTESY OF GINEEN MOROSCO Samsel Upper Elementary School in Sayreville held a remembrance of the Holocaust on April 25.

  • Library program chronicles Jewish population of Hungary before the Holocaust

    Library program chronicles Jewish population of Hungary before the Holocaust

    The East Brunswick Library continues its Holocaust remembrance program series with “The Jews of Central Europe Before the Holocaust with Focus on Hungary” multi-media lecture and music at 2:30 p.m. on April 28 at the Community Arts Center, 721 Cranbury Road, East Brunswick. The program is dedicated to Hungarian-Jewish poet Hannah Senesh, who is regarded…

  • Holocaust survivors to recount stories of atrocities, recovery during talk at East Brunswick Library

    Holocaust survivors to recount stories of atrocities, recovery during talk at East Brunswick Library

    Holocaust survivors of Kristalnacht, Eugene and Ruth Gottleib, East Brunswick residents, will discuss their perspective and experiences at 7 p.m. Feb. 12 at the East Brunswick Library, Civic Center Drive, East Brunswick. As immigrants to America, they had to absorb the revelations that family members had been lost, as well as adjust to a country with its new language and…

  • Beautiful October

    Beautiful October

    October is a relaxing month. The summer heat is passing and cooler mornings and evenings start to prevail. Crops have been picked and the growing season has just about ended, except for the last large green tomatoes on the vine. Those tomatoes were a prize. Fried green tomatoes, what a treat. Last week I asked the vegetable…

  • Chhange opens new genocide exhibit at Brookdale

    Chhange opens new genocide exhibit at Brookdale

    “Journeys Beyond Genocide: The Human Experience” is the new exhibit that the Center for Holocaust, Human Rights and Genocide Education has opened at Brookdale Community College in Lincroft. In a statement from the non-profit organization, Chhange, which was established in 1979, carries out its mission to educate about the Holocaust, human rights and genocide; promote…