April 19, 2012
The Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust commemorated Yom Hashoah with two speakers, Alan Moskin and Dr. Eva Fogelman.
The Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust commemorated Yom Hashoah with two speakers, Alan Moskin and Dr. Eva Fogelman.
The event was cosponsored with the American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists, which was represented by Stephen Greenwald, and 3GNY - an organization for third generation children of Holocaust survivors - which was represented by Daniel Brooks. Mr. Moskin, drafted into the army at age 18, served from 1944 to 1946. As a member of the 66th infantry, 71st division, he participated in the liberation of the Gunskirchen concentration camp, a sub-camp of Mauthausen, in May of 1945. Dr. Fogelman was born in a displaced persons camp in Kassel, Germany after the War. She has done seminal research on non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust, and wrote a Pulitzer Prize nominated book, Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust. Mr. Moskin gave a spell-binding first-hand account of the reality of war and the horror he witnessed in the camps. Dr. Fogelman shared the findings of her ground-breaking research on what human qualities and experiences are more likely to make people become rescuers when confronted with evil.
Eva Fogelman (left) and Anne Bayefsky (right) | Stephen Greenwald (left)and Eva Fogelman(right) |