Yom HaShoah Commemoration 2025
Annual community-wide program to commemorate Yom HaShoah Program, facilitated by the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh
Annual community-wide program to commemorate Yom HaShoah Program, facilitated by the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh
Join us as we celebrate the participants and winners of the 2025 Waldman Arts & Writing Competition. The event is open to the public and all students are strongly encouraged to attend along with their families, friends, and teachers. Winners will be honored and receive their award certificates; the grand prize winner will be announced; […]
Join the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh for a 20-minute screening of “Perseverance,” the newest edition in PA Cyber’s Emmy-nominated Moments in History series that tells the story of local Holocaust survivor Melvin Goldman (z”l). The screening will be followed by a conversation with Melvin’s daughter and author of Perseverance: One Holocaust Survivor’s Journey from Poland to […]
Marion Ein Lewin, born in Holland, survived the concentration camp Bergen Belsen together with her parents and her twin brother. One of a handful of families who survived the Holocaust intact, they arrived in New York City in 1947. Marion and Steven, then age 9, had never been to school and were placed in kindergarten. […]
Eric Marcus, host of the Making Gay History podcast, introduces his series on the experiences of LGBTQ+ people during the rise of the Nazi regime, World War II and the Holocaust. Drawing on extensive research conducted for this first-of-its-kind audio documentary, Eric shares archival clips during a 45-minute presentation (followed by audience Q&A) that brings this […]
Screening of the PBS documentary "Harbor from the Holocaust," followed by a talkback with the filmmaker, and a local descendant of Shanghai Ghetto survivors.
Come and celebrate with us, as we honor the 2025 Rightous Among the Neighbors—Pittsburgh area non-Jews who have stood with the local Jewish community as allies in the fight against antisemitism. For more information on the program and this year's class, visit: Righteous Among the Neighbors - Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh
The Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh welcomes survivor Jerry Guttman to share his story. Jerry was born in Germany, before his family took refuge in North Africa during the Shoah. Audience Q&A will follow. This program is free and open to the public.
The program will center on a conversation between Center of Life’s Rev. Tim Smith, and Avi Dresner, son of Civil Rights Activist Rabbi Israel “Sy” Dresner, and will trace the history of the African American-Jewish relationship during the Civil Rights Movement and explore ways to collaboratively address racism and antisemitism today. It will be moderated […]
Annual program to recognize and commemorate Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), with music, candle lightings, readings, prayers, and a memorial.
Annual ceremony recognizing the winning art pieces by local middle school and high school students, who have participated in the Holocaust Center's Waldman Arts & Writing Competition
Public program with Christian clergy and rabbis
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