The Emil A. and Jenny Fish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Dr. Shay Pilnik will speak this Shabbat afternoon at Congregation Rinat Yisrael in Teaneck, NJ, about the future of Holocaust Education in America. Congregation Rinat Yisrael

This Yom Hashoah 2026, we remember our 6 million brothers and sisters, the kedoshim who were slaughtered -- in the gas chambers, killing fields, ghettos and labor camps -- by the German N***s and their collaborators. As the number of Holocaust survivors dwindles and ignorance and denial of the Holocaust alarmingly rise, their recorded testimonies and the few tangible artifacts from that dark time become even more precious. We are at a critical juncture. Do your part to continue to pass our memories and stories to future generations so that we will never forget.

The Fish Center wishes you a Happy Passover. Chag Sameach!

There is still time to purchase tickets for the Emil A. and Jenny Fish Center for Holocaust Studies event on March 9, 2026, at 6:30 pm at the Moise Safra Center in Manhattan.
The event will feature a conversation with noted Israeli journalist and author Nadav Eyal who is a frequent guest on the popular podcast "Call Me Back, with Dan Senor," and our Director, Shay Pilnik and Monique Mogyoros.
If you are not able to join us, we hope you will kindly consider making a gift in support of the continued growth of the Fish Center.
Please visit: www.yu.edu/fishcenter2026

Our director Dr. Shay Pilnik will be the scholar in residence this Shabbat at Brith Sholom Beth Israel in Charleston, South Carolina. Dr. Pilnik will join the community in dedicating a Holocaust memorial to Joe Engel.

Join us on February 25 for a webinar with Jack Fairweather, author of "The Prosecutor, One Man's Battle to Bring N***s to Justice," which tells the remarkable story of Fritz Bauer, a gay, Jewish German who survived the N***s and forced his countrymen to confront their complicity in the genocide. Moderated by Cardozo Professor Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum, the program will also include Dr. Kathrin Meyer, who grew up in post-war Germany and is an expert on the denazification of Germany.

Co-sponsors: Cardozo School of Law, Cardozo Law Institute in Holocaust and Human Rights, The Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center, The Emil A. and Jenny Fish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Yeshiva University, and Leo Baeck Institute - New York for the Study of German-Jewish History and Culture.

Register to attend at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_A4aaJe1uSLGGZw_gnsZ5dQ #/registration.

We hope you will join us at a special evening event benefiting the Emil A. and Jenny Fish Center for Holocaust Studies,
on March 9, 2026, at 6:30 pm at the Moise Safra Center in Manhattan.

The event will feature a conversation with noted Israeli journalist and author Nadav Eyal who is a frequent guest on the popular podcast "Call Me Back, with Dan Senor," and our Director, Shay Pilnik and Monique Mogyoros.

If you are not able to join us, we hope you will kindly consider making a gift in support of the continued growth of the Fish Center.

Please visit: www.yu.edu/fishcenter2026

Thank you to our students, faculty, to the Fish family and our many guests who joined us for the launch of The Ravine of Memory. With a lecture, poetry reading and the Understaffed piano trio that joined us, what a moving multimedia program this was. To learn more about Dr. Pilnik’s ravine of memory you may want to listen his recent interview on the new books network:
https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-ravine-of-memory

Join us on March 4 at 6PM ET at the Anne Frank Exhibition for a private showingof this one-of-a-kind immersive experience.
- WALK inside an exact replica of the annex where the Franks hid during the Holocaust.
- UNDERSTAND how current antisemitism in Europe connects to the Frank’s experience.
- LEARN from YU experts on Holocaust and genocide studies.
Register at yu.edu/AnneFrankExhibition

Join us at Seforim Sale on February 23 for a lecture with Dr. Pilnik's on his upcoming book, The Ravine of Memory: Babyn Yar Between the Holocaust and the Great Patriotic War.