White Plains Public Library Holocaust Remembrance Events

Press release from the White Plains Public Library:

December 15, 2021

The United Nations General Assembly designated January 27—the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau—as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

On this annual day of commemoration, the UN urges every member state to honor the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and millions of other victims of Nazism and to develop educational programs to help prevent future genocides. To find out more, click here.

Join us for two events in January to reflect on our history and remember both Holocaust survivors and victims.

Speaker Event: Anna Leiser-Kleinhaus, Holocaust Survivor
Tuesday, January 11th
7:00–8:00 p.m.
Click here to register.
Anna Leiser-Kleinhaus, born in 1936 in Antwerp, Belgium, describes her life while in hiding during the war, her times in a French orphanage, posing as a Catholic in a French town with her mother and returning to Antwerp with her mother after the war and reuniting with her father after his liberation from a concentration camp.

She studied in Geneva, Switzerland where she met her husband. Immigrated to the US where she received a doctorate in pharmacology and had a productive career while raising three children.

Now retired she enjoys the company of her grandchildren.

This program is intended for adults.

Holocaust Remembrance Day Virtual Author Visit
Thursday, January 27th
4:30–5:30 p.m.
Click here for the Zoom link.
Join us for a visit from author Michelle Bisson to discuss her book, Hedy's Journey: The True Story of a Hungarian Girl Fleeing the Holocaust (Library Collection /). This event is for children in fourth grade and up, including adults.

Children's Reading List

Benno and the Night of Broken Glass by Meg Wiviott
Library Catalog

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Library Catalog / eBook

The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
Library Catalog / eBook

Hidden: A Child’s Story of the Holocaust by Loic Dauvillier
Library Catalog

The Cats In Krasinski Square by Karen Hesse
Library Catalog

Refugee by Alan Gratz
Library Catalog / eBook

Survivors of the Holocaust by Kath Shackleton
Library Catalog / eBook

The Hidden Children by Howard Greenfeld
Library Catalog

Rescuing the Children by Deborah Hodge
Library Catalog / eBook

We Had To Be Brave by Deborah Hopkinson
Library Catalog / eBook

We Will Not Be Silent by Russell Freedman
Library Catalog

The Butterfly by Patricia Polacco
Library Catalog

The Whispering Town by Jennifer Elvgren
Library Catalog / eBook

This press release was produced by the White Plains Public Library. The views expressed are the author's own.