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Community-wide Yom HaShoah Commemoration

Yom HaShoah event flyer

Women in the Holocaust

Sunday, April 19, 2020, 5:00 pm
Reform Temple of Rockland
330 N. Highland Ave.
Nyack, NY

For more information, contact the Museum at 845-574-4099 or email holocaustrcc@gmail.com

This event is free and open to the public.

Keynote Speaker: Sarah M. Cushman Ph.D.

Sarah Cushman

Sarah Cushman is the Director of the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University. Prior to her work at HEF, Sarah was the Head of Educational Programming at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University and the Director of Youth Education at the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County (New York). While there, she completed her doctoral dissertation, The Women of Birkenau (Clark University, 2010), a social history of the women's camp in Auschwitz. Sarah is currently revising her dissertation into a book. Her research and writing have been supported by fellowships from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Holocaust Educational Foundation, and Steven Spielberg.