November 9th is known as Kristallnacht – the night of broken glass. The massive pogrom on November 9th, 1938 marks when the forces of anti-Semitism grew strong enough to cause the Shoah. The Temple Israel Shoah Remembrance Committee invites you to commemorate Kristallnacht as we continue to honor survivors who bear witness and their descendants who share their stories.
Kristallnacht Commemoration
Sunday, November 9th
7:00 p.m.
Blue Room and TIGN Zoom
Guest speaker: Joan Arnay Halperin, author
Please check the weekly emails from Temple Israel or call the synagogue office for the Zoom link.
Joan Arnay Halperin is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, with a BA in Speech and Drama. She earned a Master of Education Degree in TESOL and devoted many years to teaching, grant writing and teacher training at various New York City Public Schools. In 2013, while doing research for her book My Sister’s Eyes: A Family Chronicle of Rescue and Loss During World War II, Joan learned of her family’s debt to Holocaust rescuer Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Portuguese Consul General in Bordeaux, France. To read the e-flipbook for free visit www.mysisterseyes.com. Joan is a member of Generations Forward, a group sponsored by the Holocaust and Human Rights Education Center of White Plains, New York. In recent years Joan has dedicated her energies to sharing the story of her family’s 1,241 day journey on the road to freedom at synagogues and to teachers and students at the elementary through university levels in person and via ZOOM in the USA and Portugal. Joan will share excerpts from her mother Helene Arnay’s testimony recorded by Joan’s brother Richard D. Arnay on January 1, 1989.
She is looking forward to sharing her story at Temple Israel of Great Neck where her two sons celebrated their Bar Mitzvahs.
