Join 3GNY for an early Hanukkah celebration and connect with our vibrant community!

While Hanukkah falls late this year, we're getting the festivities started early! Join us for an evening of light, laughter, and community at our annual Hanukkah Happy Hour. Whether you’re a long-time member or new to 3GNY, this is the perfect chance to meet fellow 3Gs and friends, share stories, and celebrate our Jewish heritage together. Enjoy festive drinks, lively conversation, and the warmth of our 3G community.

Each ticket includes one top-shelf drink.

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Join us for an intimate discussion with 3GNY volunteer Brooke Randel to celebrate the release of her new memoir, Also Here: Love, Literacy, and the Legacy of the Holocaust.

About Also Here

As a young girl Brooke Randel knew little about the Holocaust—just that it was a catastrophe in which millions were murdered, and that her grandma Golda Indig barely escaped that fate. But her Bubbie never spoke about what happened, and the two spent most of their time together making pleasant memories: baking crescent roll cookies, playing gin rummy, and watching Baywatch. Until an unexpected phone call when Golda said, out of the blue: “You should write about my life. What happened in the war.” What results is a fascinating memoir—about one woman's harrowing survival, and another's struggle to excavate the story from under the sands of time, and her grandma's illiteracy. Chronicling the darkness of the past and the difficult (and occasionally comic) challenges of bringing it to life in a sunny Florida condo, this book offers an insightful look into the relationship between grandparents and grandchildren, and the impossible pull of both silence and remembrance.

Purchase the book at: https://bookshop.org/a/106294/9781948954976

About Brooke

Brooke Randel is a writer, editor and associate creative director in Chicago. She is the author of Also Here: Love, Literacy, and the Legacy of the Holocaust. Her writing has been published in Hippocampus, Hypertext Magazine, Jewish Fiction, SmokeLong Quarterly, and elsewhere. The granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor, she writes on issues of memory, trauma, family and history. Find more of her work at brookerandel.com.

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Join us at our next 3GNY Long Island Meeting!

You’ll have the chance to meet other 3Gs and hear from guest speaker Dagan Cohen. Dagan is a former combat officer in the IDF and he’ll share an update on the current situation in Israel and prospects for peace in the future.

Email jpashman@syjcc.org for more info and to register.

Join 3GNY for an information session (with coffee and snacks) where we will discuss our shared Holocaust legacy and how we can work together to educate the next generation. We will also explore ways that we can support Holocaust education in Central New York and proactively counter antisemitism.

To register, contact Eileen Angelini: eangelini@3gnewyork.org

Join us November 13th for the next installment of our popular WEDU Wednesday series as 3GNY volunteer Emma Taffet shares the story of her grandmother, Anne Preis Green.

About Ann:

Ann Preis Green was born in 1925 in Neunkirchen, Austria. She went into hiding when she was 16, in 1941, and was sent to Auschwitz at the end of 1944. She was liberated from the work camp Salzwedel in 1945 and went back to Vienna until her mother’s cousin organized her immigration to the United States. After meeting her future husband, Jack Green, on the subway, they settled in Queens where they had three children. When Ann passed away in 2020 at 95 years old, she had seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Those who knew and loved her miss her infectious laugh, sense of humor, and mandelbrot.

About Emma:

Emma Taffet is the granddaughter of Ann Preis Green. She grew up 15 minutes away from her grandmother in New Jersey, who frequently came into her middle school and Hebrew school classrooms to tell her story. Emma began telling Ann's story in the Winter of 2024 after completing 3GNY’s WEDU speaker training that previous winter.

Emma currently works in HR in NYC. In her spare time, she enjoys playing tennis, taking long walks in Central Park and cooking dinner for friends and loved ones.

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3GNY Stories Live: WEDU Wednesdays take place Wednesdays at 8:00 pm ET. In this virtual series, grandchildren of Holocaust survivors share their family stories with us. You'll also learn more about our educational initiative, WEDU, which engages 3Gs to learn and share their family stories in school classrooms. View past WEDU Wednesday presentations on our YouTube channel. If you know educators looking to bring our speakers into their classrooms, please contact WEDUscheduling@3gnewyork.org.

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Join us on Zoom with Archives Director Janice Rosen and Archivist Melissa Castron. Learn about researching your family's history by accessing the vast amount of information they have carefully preserved. 

The Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives, formerly known as the Canadian Jewish Congress National Archives, is a repository specializing in records regarding assistance to Jewish immigrants, refugees, and various issues relating to human rights. 

Register now to reserve your spot!

Join T&V and 3GNY for a Wine & Cheese Sunday.

View the film "After: Poetry Destroys Silence" at Cinema Village, located at 22 East 12th Street.

Then, join T&V  on Sunday Nov. 3, at 5 pm for a reception & panel discussion with the film makers:

Eva Fogelman, Moderator
Richard Kroehling, Director
Janet R. Kirchheimer, Producer and poet
Cornelius Eady, Poet appearing in the film

Click here to purchase your tickets to see the film, screening November 1st through 7th at Cinema Village. (If you purchase a ticket for hte movie, use code Ticket to receive 10% off the Wine & Cheese).

Click here to watch the trailer.

Join 3GNY for a day of food, friends, and discussion at our annual Intergenerational Brunch! All in our community of descendants of Holocaust survivors and supporters are invited to eat, connect, and learn together.

We are honored to welcome this year’s speaker, Doris Schechter, who will share her incredible journey of survival and resilience. Born in Vienna to Jewish parents, Doris and her family fled to Italy at the start of World War II. In 1944, at the age of six, she boarded The Henry Gibbins, a ship bound for New York, where she and her family became some of the 982 refugees hosted at the Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter in Oswego, NY—the only shelter in the United States for Jewish refugees during the Holocaust. With the help of Ruth Gruber and Eleanor Roosevelt, Doris and her family were able to stay in the U.S. after the war, eventually settling in New York City. Doris went on to become a successful entrepreneur, founding the iconic My Most Favorite Dessert Company, and is also an author and filmmaker, using her work to preserve and share her family's extraordinary story.

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Sponsored by Stephanie & Zachary Kuperman and Ed Fleischman, in loving memory of our grandparents Edith & Sam Fleischman (parents of Ed (Sara) Fleischman) and Basia & Ben Kuperman (parents of Joe (Randie) Kuperman)

Join us for an evening to connect with our community and meet new friends! To rsvp please email events@3gnewyork.org.

Join 3GNY, Michael Mantell, and the Rededication Project September 25 for an incredible book talk with author Chana Stiefel as she discusses her award-winning children's book, The Tower of Life: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt Her Town in Stories and Photographs.

Children’s book author Chana Stiefel will share the story behind her award-winning picture book biography, The Tower of Life: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt Her Town in Stories and Photographs, illustrated by Susan Gal, published by Scholastic. Professor Yaffa Eliach was one of the only survivors of her Polish shtetl, Eishyshok. She became a world-renowned Jewish historian and expert on the Holocaust. As a member of President Jimmy Carter’s Commission on the Holocaust, Yaffa’s mission was to restore humanity to the victims of her town. In 1993, she created the Tower of Faces, a soaring photographic exhibit in the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. In her talk, Chana will discuss her inspiration for writing the book, archival photos from Yaffa’s extraordinary collection, as well as Yaffa’s lasting legacy of hope and resilience during these difficult times.

About Chana

Chana Stiefel is the award-winning author of more than 30 books for children. Her picture book, The Tower of Life: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt Her Town in Stories and Photographs (Scholastic), has won many honors, including the 2023 Sydney Taylor Book Award, a Robert F. Sibert Honor, the Margaret Wise Brown Prize, and the Malka Penn Award for Human Rights in Children’s Literature. Chana’s other nonfiction titles include Let Liberty Rise: How America’s Schoolchildren Helped Save the Statue of Liberty (Scholastic) and the upcoming Let’s Fly (Dial, 2025), co-written with Captain Barrington Irving, who broke records as the youngest person and first Black man to fly solo around the world. Learn more at chanastiefel.com.

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3GNY and The Jewish Resilience Project present

“October 7 and its Aftermath: Mending the Broken Jewish Story to Find Our Resilience”

A 90-Minute Framing and Workshop presented by ANU's Tisch Center for Jewish Dialogue

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In an ongoing global Jewish crisis with unknown highs and lows still yet to come, the Jewish people need clarity, hope, and resilience. We can find all of this within the Jewish story. In this 90-minute experience, we will start with a framing, placing this period within a global and historical Jewish context. We will look at "The Story That Broke" on October 7, and how to mend it through identifying and then harnessing the central elements of Jewish resilience. 

The framing will focus on American Jewry's and Israelis' two separate responses to the Holocaust, and will offer an additional response that can serve as a necessary shared answer for our generation in the face of the current global Jewish crisis. Using Jewish history and psychology around narrative, hope, and resilience, this session offers a personal and collective pathway towards bringing about a better and more resilient shared future.

This session will include an interactive workshop, where we will unpack our experiences from this period, and identify and activate our own "resilience muscles" using the stories we were told by and about our survivor grandparents and parents. Participants will build their “peoplehood muscles” by being in dialogue with others and having the opportunity to articulate and receive diverse and shared experiences.

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The Workshop was built in partnership with Psychologist Dr. Marshall Duke.

Space is limited and will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis.

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Join us September 11 for the next installment of our popular WEDU Wednesday series as 3GNY volunteer Ariele Schwartz shares the story of her grandfather, Harry Schwartz. 

Harry Schwartz (born Zvi Zev Szwarc) grew up in Scierpc, Poland. By his early teens, his family had been forcibly moved to a ghetto nearby before he, his father, and his brother were sent to Auschwitz in 1942. After his liberation in January 1945, Harry relocated to Fano, Italy, until he was able to immigrate to the United States. He settled in Brooklyn for his adult life, worked as a bricklayer, married, and had two sons, five grandchildren, and one great-grandchild, before passing away in 2010 at the age of 86.

Harry was the picture of resilience and humor for his family and good natured to all who knew him, including to his friends in the Drobnina Society.

About Ariele

Ariele Schwartz is the granddaughter of Harry Schwartz. She is named for Harry’s brother, her great-uncle Abraham Matthew, who died in Auschwitz. Though she never spoke with her grandfather directly about his experiences, the origin of her name gave them a special connection. Ariele began telling Harry’s story in the Fall of 2022 after completing 3GNY’s WEDU speaker training that previous summer.

Ariele is no stranger to speaking and teaching. She currently works as a Learning and Development Manager in NYC. She has spent her career in hospitality – starting out as a Pastry Chef and Chocolatier. Baking is still part of her life, and in his lifetime her grandfather was one of her most devoted champions and taste-testers.

Sponsored by the Berliner-Engelman Family

In Memory of Lillian Berliner

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3GNY Stories Live: WEDU Wednesdays take place Wednesdays at 8:00 pm ET. In this virtual series, grandchildren of Holocaust survivors share their family stories with us. You'll also learn more about our educational initiative, WEDU, which engages 3Gs to learn and share their family stories in school classrooms. View past WEDU Wednesday presentations on our YouTube channel. If you know educators looking to bring our speakers into their classrooms, please contact WEDUscheduling@3gnewyork.org.

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Join 3GNY and 3GNJ for a one-of-a-kind Kosher Jewish Food Tour in NYC! 

Embark on a gastronomic adventure as you are guided through the bustling streets of the Upper East Side of New York City, where you will have the opportunity to savor some of the most revered and cherished Jewish dishes this city has to offer. From New York City’s best bagels and lox to the best pastrami and rye sandwich in the world, Jewish food is a tapestry woven with centuries of tradition, customs, and global influences. The Famous Jewish Foods tour explores how Jewish food grew from a food that only Jews ate to a world-wide culinary phenomenon. 

Join us for a tasty afternoon to eat, learn, and kibitz with friends and good food. All are welcome!

Join 3GNY for drinks, raffles, and great conversations to kick off summer and honor Holocaust

Survivors Day with local 3Gs and supporters of our community. Looking forward to seeing you there! 

All are welcome - bring a friend to introduce them to our wonderful community! 

Purchase your tickets today - early bird tickets available through May 27!

Admission includes 1 drink token. 

Purchase tickets at https://tinyurl.com/3GNYHappyHour24

Join us on June 2 as Alex discusses his upcoming project: 'Radical Remembrance: a Socio-Political Genealogy of the Legacy of the Holocaust in Poland,' commissioned by the Council of European Studies as part of the 30th International Conference of Europeanists.

How do we contemplate social memory? 3GNY volunteer and graduate researcher Alex Rossen has considered this question a lot in his academic career. As a 3G who traces his heritage back to Poland, researching practices of memory in the country is a very personal line of research for Alex. His passion and expertise on the subject are informed by his family history, and by his extensive field experience in Poland. Alex is a Senior Warsaw Fellow at Humanity in Action. He is also the author of 'What Happens When Nationalism Seeps Into Holocaust History? Look to Poland,' published in the Forward in 2022, and 'Shatter the Cube: Challenging Historical Revisionism in Poland and the U.S.' written for Humanity in Action in 2023. 

This conversation will be hosted and moderated by Professor Jody Russell Manning, lecturer and associate director of the Rowan University Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights. Jody specializes in the research of Holocaust history and memory, Polish-Jewish relations, and the ramifications of genocide for contemporary society. He was the first American intern at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum from 2005-2009. He is also the co-founder of the first International Graduate Students' Conference for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University.

Amidst a global shift in how diverse communities relate to the past,  Alex uses a socio-genealogical approach to answer important questions about the arc of Holocaust memory practices in Poland’s social and political spheres. Poland has often been described as a traditionalist society facing a certain social upheaval as it attempts to reconcile its difficult past with the demands of the present. With his research, Alex aims to make more concentrated contributions to this understanding of Poland by investigating the role of leading right-wing actors in Poland in using violence, intimidation, and lawmaking to engender a narrow, nationalist interpretation of the Holocaust.

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Join us for this powerful two-part training with Project Shema. The interactive training will empower you with the understanding and skills needed to navigate difficult conversations about antisemitism. 

Whenever the Israeli-Palestinian conflict breaks into an all-out war, antisemitism rises everywhere, as we are witnessing now. This two-part program is designed to help you understand how and why anti-Jewish ideas often go unnoticed and unchecked in discourse around the conflict, especially in more progressive spaces. More importantly, participants will develop skills to help people better understand the concerns of our community, including how and why this rhetoric undermines individual and collective Jewish inclusion and safety.

Project Shema is a training and support organization built by progressives to help our Jewish community and allies understand and address contemporary antisemitism, with an emphasis on how anti-Jewish ideas can emerge in progressive spaces and in discourse around Israel and Palestine.

Space is limited and will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. Please plan to attend both sessions in order to complete the full training.

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Join the 3GNY community for a participatory and meaningful Yom HaShoah ceremony to honor our responsibility to remember and embrace our commitment to remember responsibly. 

Our program will once again be guided by the "Hitkansut Haggadah," developed by the Shalom Hartman Institute. We invite attendees to share, discuss, reflect, and remember together. The intimate and moving ceremony, featuring poems, reflections, and testimony, will honor our grandparents and other survivors along with the countless others whose stories may never be told. Join us as we move from "kinah" - sitting in grief -  to "kimah" - rising up to insist on human dignity.

All are welcome. For planning and security purposes, RSVPs required for each attendee. This event will take place on NYC’s Lower East Side - exact location to be shared upon RSVP.

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Please join 3GNY virtually on Tuesday, April 16th at 8pm ET for an intimate discussion with author and historian Jacob Mikanowski, who will be discussing his latest work, Goodbye, Eastern Europe, in the next installment of our Jewishness, Activism and Finding Belonging series.

“Goodbye, Eastern Europe is a masterful narrative about a place that has survived being forgotten. Beginning with long-lost accounts of early pagan life, Mikanowski offers a kaleidoscopic tour of the various peoples who made Eastern Europe their home over the centuries, including the Roma, Jews, and Muslims; the great kingdoms of the medieval period; the rise and fall of the Ottoman, Habsburg, and Russian empires; the dawn of the modern era; the ravages of fascism and Communism; the birth of the modern nation-state and beyond.” -Penguin Random House

In this riveting fireside chat, we will take a deep dive into the process and research behind writing a book that features 2,000 years of vast history, the long and diverse story of Jews in Eastern Europe, the golden age of Europe and its Jewry, the Holocaust and how Jews experienced the rise of fascist terror and violence from the Baltics to the Balkans, and how to make sense of Jewish life now in a region whose Jewish population was decimated.

Jacob Mikanowski is a historian, a freelance journalist, and critic. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Aeon, Cabinet, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Guardian, The New York Times, newyorker.com, and many more.

Please register for the Zoom link and we look forward to seeing you there!