CANCELED – In The Garden of the Righteous: The Heroes Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews During the Holocaust

Unfortunately, our International Holocaust Remembrance Day speaker event at Central Queens with Richard Hurowitz has been canceled due to a family emergency with the author. The event will be rescheduled for another date to be announced. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

The Gar­den of the Right­eous at Israel’s Holo­caust Memo­r­i­al, Yad Vashem, pays trib­ute to indi­vid­u­als who risked their lives, lib­er­ty, and/​or careers in order to save Jews dur­ing the Holo­caust. The 27,000 indi­vid­u­als hon­ored con­sti­tute half a hun­dredth of one per­cent of the Euro­pean pop­u­la­tion, or one in 20,000.

Named after the memo­r­i­al gar­den, Richard Hurowitz’s book presents in-depth case stud­ies of indi­vid­u­als from var­i­ous nations who took sig­nif­i­cant risks to do what they believed was right. In the Gar­den of the Right­eous is a time­ly book, giv­en that we live in a world where anti­semitism, racism, and homo­pho­bia are again on the rise. Hurowitz’s vivid, fine­ly craft­ed por­traits remind us to fight these injus­tices with every­thing we’ve got.

Click here to buy the book. This event is part of our Cultural Arts Speaker Series and is free for Older Adult Center members and $5 for others. If you are not an Older Adult Center member, please click here to pay.

For more information, contact Sivan at sbenaderet@commonpointqueens.org.