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On October 22, 2026, Holocaust survivor Allan Hall will join us via Zoom to talk to students in classrooms about how he and his family survived the Holocaust in Poland from 9:30-10:30 AM. Teachers can register their classroom and a Zoom link will be sent two weeks before the event. Classrooms from outside NC are also welcome to join. We can have up to 500 teachers register for the Zoom.

Born in Krakow, Poland, Allan J. Hall survived the Holocaust as a young child, enduring life in the Lviv Ghetto and years in hiding with his family, including under false identities and even inside a Nazi headquarters building. After immigrating to the United States, he built a successful career and later dedicated himself to Holocaust education, sharing his testimony and a message of education, perseverance, understanding, and human dignity.

On December 3, 2026, Holocaust survivor Dr. Lex Silbiger l will join us via Zoom to talk to students in classrooms about how he and his family survived the Holocaust from 9:30-10:30 AM. Teachers can register their classroom and a Zoom link will be sent two weeks before the event. Classrooms from outside NC are also welcome to join. We can have up to 500 teachers register for the Zoom.

As a six-year-old Jewish child in the Netherlands, Dr. Lex Silbiger fled with his family through France before finding refuge in Jamaica, escaping the Nazi persecution that later claimed the lives of his grandparents at Auschwitz. After the war, his family returned to Holland, and Lex has carried forward a powerful message of gratitude, resilience, and the value of life, grounded in the sacrifices his parents made to save him.

On February 25, 2027, 3G Holocaust survivor Courtney Doi will join us via Zoom to talk to students in classrooms about how her grandmother survived the Holocaust from 9:30-10:30 AM. Teachers can register their classroom and a Zoom link will be sent two weeks before the event. Classrooms from outside NC are also welcome to join. We can have up to 500 teachers register for the Zoom.

Courtney Doi is a third-generation Holocaust descendant who shares the story of her grandmother, Judith Klein, who escaped Nazi Germany as a teenager aboard the Kindertransport in December 1938, while many members of her family were later murdered in concentration camps. Drawing on 30 years of her grandmother’s personal journals, family photographs, and her own research, Courtney preserves Judith’s story while helping students consider the importance of memory, family history, and their own responsibility to confront hatred.

On March 23, 2027, Holocaust survivor George Rishfield will join us via Zoom to talk to students in classrooms about he survived the Holocaust from 9:30-10:30 AM. Teachers can register their classroom and a Zoom link will be sent two weeks before the event. Classrooms from outside NC are also welcome to join. We can have up to 500 teachers register for the Zoom.

George Rishfeld survived the Holocaust as a young child after his parents entrusted him to a non-Jewish family who hid him for approximately three years, while his mother survived forced labor and his father escaped the Vilna Ghetto and lived with partisans. Reunited with his parents after the war, George has devoted decades to sharing his remarkable story of survival, resilience, and the importance of combating hatred through education and tolerance.

On April 13, 2027, Bosnian survivor Amra Sabic-El-Rayess will join us via Zoom to talk to students in classrooms about she survived the Bosnian genocide from 9:30-10:30 AM. Teachers can register their classroom and a Zoom link will be sent two weeks before the event. Classrooms from outside NC are also welcome to join. We can have up to 500 teachers register for the Zoom.

Dr. Amra Sabic-El-Rayess survived the Bosnian Genocide as a young Bosniak woman, becoming a teacher while still a teenager amid the violence and persecution that shaped her early life. Today, she is an award-winning author, professor and researcher at Teachers College, Columbia University, using education and storytelling to promote resilience, prevent hate, and challenge extremism.