Please join us for the inaugural 

Egon J. Salmon and Family Commemoration
of Kristallnacht 
and of the S.S. St. Louis Event

with guest speaker:

Rabbi Joseph Polak
Winner of the 2015 National Jewish Book Award

Presenting Lecture: "The Last Survivor"

  After the Holocaust, the Bells Still Ring, with an introduction by Elie Wiesel, reflects on the fate of the 80% of Jews from the Netherlands who perished in the Holocaust. Rabbi Polak was liberated at age 3 with him mother from Bergen-Belsen.  He currently is an Assistant Professor at the School of Public Health, and Rabbi Emeritus of Hillel House at Boston University.

 Thursday, November 10, 2016

at 6:00 p.m.,

in the Manzulli Boardroom of Foundation Hall

Kosher hors d'oeuvres will be served before the event 

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 The first annual Wagner College Holocaust Education & Programming Center's Egon J. Salmon and Family, Commemoration of Kristallnacht and of the S.S. St. Louis event honors the courage and resourcefulness of Egon and his parents, Paul and Erna Salmon, which enabled their families to survive.  Egon J. Salmon was an eyewitness to Kristallnacht, a passenger on the ill-fated S.S. St.Louis, and served with distinction in the U.S. Military during World War II. His father Paul was also arrested by the Gestapo on Kristallnacht and sent to Dachau.