The Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center in Glen Cove offers resources for teachers on Long Island to educate students about the history of the Holocaust. Credit: Debbie Egan-Chin ..read more

Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County (HMTC) Storyteller Dana Arschin has created a video biography of 83 year-old Sands Point, Long Island resident and Holocaust survivor Leo Ullman. Ullman, a Harvard graduate, wildly successful entrepreneur, philanthropist, and an accomplished athlete who has completed 145 triathlons, is one of the youngest Holocause survivors; he was barely a year old when the Nazis invaded the Netherlands in 1940, and escaped their persecution by hiding with a Christian family in Amsterdam.  Be sure to watch this moving portrait of a remarkable m ..read more

Holocaust survivors, clockwise from top left, Alex Konstantyn, Sami Steigmann, Leo Ullman, Gilda Zirinsky, Reha Bennicasa and Mireille Taub, share their stories, to help educate future generations about the atrocities of the Holocaust. COURTESY JOVON PHOTOGRAPHY Students often learned about the atrocities committed during that time by reading first-hand accounts or hearing them from survivors. But as the events of World War II and the Holocaust fall further into the past and the last survivors die, there will no longer be anyone able to share the atrocities they either witnesses or experience ..read more

Months before the Russian invasion, Long Islander Andrea Bolender went to Ukraine to visit Babi Yar, the ravine outside Kyiv, where on Sept. 29-30, 1941, German Nazis slaughtered 33,771 Jews. Bolender, who is chair of the Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County in Glen Cove, was part of an American delegation to the site. Among those at the ceremonies was Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, himself a Jew. Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February and the history of the Holocaust both highlight the importance of a concert the memorial cen ..read more

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Our Vice Chairman of the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center Jolanda Zamecka attended the vigil and said it's "absolutely insane" to be terrorizing children and innocent victims who have nothing to do with any adult conflicts. Watch More ..read more

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Welwyn Preserve, on Crescent Beach Road, was once a little-known gem in Glen Cove, a place many enjoyed for the solitude of a quiet hike on a trail or down to the shore of Long Island Sound. But what previously attracted few became a destination for many over the past year, as people searched for outdoor activities. The influx of visitors, combined with a year of heavy winds, left the preserve in dire need of cleaning up. Last Friday, dozens of students from the Webb Institute volunteered to do just that. “It’s been a little abandoned, and we have thousands of people coming through on the we ..read more

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