The Great Neck Library is hosting a lecture named A haven from the holocaust: Washington Heights and the Jews of Europe by Dr. Linda F. Burghardt on March 16 at 2:00 p.m. at our Main Library, 159 Bayview Ave. in Great Neck.
Throughout the Holocaust, thousands of refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe sought healing and hope in Manhattan’s Washington Heights neighborhood, making it home to the world’s largest German-Jewish community in the aftermath of the war.
What did Washington Heights offer them, and how did this iconic community help them become Americans? Join us for a presentation about this unique neighborhood, one that offered the German and Austrian Jews and the other survivors who followed later the strength and resilience to overcome their inestimable loss.
Burghardt is the scholar-in-residence at the Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center in Glen Cove and a journalist and author from Great Neck.
She worked as a freelance reporter for The New York Times for twenty years and is the author of three non-fiction books. Her articles and essays have appeared in newspapers across the U.S., and she has lectured to both national and international audiences on a variety of topics.
She holds a Ph.D. from LIU Post and is the daughter of Holocaust survivors from Vienna.
For more information, please contact Great Neck Library at (516) 466-8055 or email [email protected].
