Events

Co-sponsoring Yad Vashem USA Foundation’s Kristallnacht Commemoration

We are pleased to be a co-sponsor for Yad Vashem USA Foundation’s second annual Kristallnacht Spread the Light Commemoration on Sunday, November 8, 2026, at 4:00 PM.
Event for October 25

A Zoom about The Kindertransport: Rescue, Separation, and Recovery

We are pleased to partner with Ghetto Fighters’ House for the second program in their Talking Memory Zoom three-part series entitled Children, Trauma, and the Work of Recovery - From the Holocaust to October 7: New scholarship, New perspectives, Three conversations. The focus of this program is: The Kindertransport: Rescue, Separation, and Recovery. The event takes place on Sunday, October

Three-part Zoom series: Children, Trauma, and the Work of Recovery – From the Holocaust to October 7: New scholarship, New perspectives, Three conversations. 

We are partnering with Ghetto Fighters’ House for a three-part Zoom series entitled Children, Trauma, and the Work of Recovery - From the Holocaust to October 7: New scholarship, New perspectives, Three conversations. The first program is on Sunday, October 11, 2026.
Lit yahrzeit candle glowing against a black background

WOMEN, THEATER, AND THE HOLOCAUST EVENT ON APRIL 14, 2026

Our Women, Theater, and the Holocaust Yom HaShoah event on April 14, 2026, was a sold-out success. See details, photographs, and the print program.
Dr. Gisella Perl after World War II. Credit: Public Domain.

Forthcoming Film about Dr. Gisella Perl

My Name is Gisella Perl: I Was A Doctor in Auschwitz


Remember the Women Institute is thrilled to announce that we are co-producing a forthcoming film, My Name is Gisella Perl: I Was A Doctor in Auschwitz, with distinguished filmmaker Rosemarie Reed and her On the Road Productions. It will highlight the extraordinary life of Dr. Gisella Perl, a Jewish
Ofri Akavia, Without Words, 1990. Pastel on paper, 20.5 × 28 in (52 × 71 cm). Collection of the artist, Israel.

Silencing Sexual Violence in Holocaust History

Silencing Sexual Violence in Holocaust History - A Zoom event presented on January 28, 2026, in commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, in cooperation with the Women in the Holocaust International Study Center

Two Important Book Launches on Zoom in May 2026

Two Talking Memory Zoom events highlight important new books in May 2026. Two important new books, Letters from the Afterlife and Out of the Sky, will be highlighted and discussed in May 2026 Ghetto Fighters’ House Talking Memory Zoom events, in cooperation with Remember the Women Institute.

Heroines of the Holocaust: Reframing Resistance and Courage in Genocide

Heroines of the Holocaust: Reframing Resistance and Courage in Genocide

Sunday, November 2, 2025

We are pleased to partner with the Ghetto Fighters’ House for their Special Talking Memory Book Launch Event. You are invited to join us for a Zoom presentation about an important new book.

Women, Theater, and the Holocaust Event on April 24

Women, Theater, and the Holocaust Event on April 24

Thursday, April 24, 2025, 7:00 PM

Seventh Floor Beit Midrash
Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan, Amsterdam Avenue at 76th Street

The Legacy of Women’s Resistance in Auschwitz

The Ghetto Fighters’ House invites you to a special Talking Memory Program marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz:

The Legacy of Women’s Resistance in Auschwitz

Sunday, April 6th

The Legacy of Leadership Webinar

The Legacy of Leadership Webinar


Sunday, January 26, 2025, 2 PM EST | 8 PM CET | 9 PM IST Virtual

“999: The Forgotten Girls” – screening and discussion

Wednesday, January 22, 2025, 6 PM Israel Time, Jerusalem  Best-selling author and historian Heather Dune Macadam has adapted her acclaimed […]

“Sabotage” – screening and talk-back

Sunday, January 12, 2025, 2 PM EST, In person, New York City Remember the Women Institute is partnering with the […]

“999: The Forgotten Girls” Screening and Discussion

Film Screening and Discussion on September 15 Remember the Women Institute partnered with the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New […]

Women, Theater, and the Holocaust – Annual Yom HaShoah Event

Women, Theater, and the Holocaust
Annual Yom HaShoah Event

Monday, May 6, 2024, at 7:00 PM

 

Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan (Beit Midrash)
Amsterdam Avenue and 76 Street
New York, NY

Brenda Bettinson – The Ravensbrück Series

Brenda Bettinson - The Ravensbrück Series
MCVA Choate House Art Gallery
Pace University
Pleasantville, NY
April 3-April 26

Opening Reception
April 3, 12-1:30 pm

Opening Reception Guest speaker, Wednesday, April 3:
Dr. Rochelle G. Saidel