Archive: April 2023

The Jewish Refugees Whose Intelligence Helped Win the War: Camp Ritchie and its Graduates

Posted on April 17, 2023

April 17, 2023 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm – Professor David Frey, Professor of History and Founding Director of the Stewart and Lynda Resnick Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies, West Point, joins the Jewish Studies Program at Purchase College for the annual Holocaust Remembrance Lecture. Professor Frey will discuss the remarkable story of the World War II Military Intelligence Training Center (MITC) at […]

TBA – Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) Service

Posted on April 17, 2023

April 17, 2023 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm – Our powerful and moving Yom HaShoah service will feature a presentation (online) by Gabriella Major.  Ms. Major was born in Debrecen, Hungary during World War II. She was deported with her mother and grandmother by cattle cars to a concentration camp near Vienna after many months of living in a ghetto. Eventually, the Russians liberated […]