Through the years and decades, along with his wife Sylvia, Marty has helped us become an effective force for tolerance in our area and beyond. He will be sorely missed.

Read his obituary

Join us as we observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Friday, January 27th. Ms. Manya Perel, an Auschwitz survivor, will be speaking at the Northeast Sunrisers Rotary Club on Friday, January 27th at 7:15am, at the Country Club Diner, 1717 Cottman Avenue, in Northeast Philadelphia. This program is free and open to the public.

This special program, an observance of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, is one aspect of HAMEC's annual commemoration of the 1945 liberation by Soviet troops of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and death camp.

January 27th is designated by the United Nations General Assembly as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Since 2005, the UN and its member states have held commemoration ceremonies to mark the anniversary of the Auschwitz-Birkenau liberation, and to honor the victims and the survivors of the Holocaust.

Read Manya's bio(pdf)

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Stefanie Seltzer is the Founder and President of the World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust and Descendants

Stefanie Seltzer was born in Lodz, Poland where her father’s family, the Fiszman family, owned a large glass factory and store called, Rozalia. Its history is documented in the recently completed museum in Radomsko where several pieces of its glassware are exhibited.

She and her family lived in Radomsko, where in 1942, ten thousand Jews were deported to Treblinka, including most of the Fiszman family after her father was killed. Stefanie was smuggled out of the Radomsko ghetto as a very young child and hidden in several places. She was reunited with her mother during the Warsaw uprising. In 1946, after the war, they left Poland for the Displaced Persons Camp in Vienna and immigrated to the United States in 1952.

Following a Philadelphia meeting of the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors, she convened a group of Child Survivors from the N.E. Corridor and organized the first two international conferences of Child Survivors. This led to the formation of the World Federation of Jewish Survivors and their Descendants. There are sixty-four groups throughout the world and there have been twenty-eight annual meetings; the last one with six hundred attendees. She continues to serve as the organization’s President.

In addition, Stefanie is a vice-president of the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and serves on the Leadership Committee of the Claims Conference, created to obtain material restitution for Holocaust victims. She has served also as Chair of the Yizkor Committee of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Philadelphia, which sponsors the annual Yom Hashoah Remembrance Ceremony at the Holocaust Memorial on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

Since the mid seventies, Stefanie has spoken about her eyewitness experiences during the Holocaust to educational and communal institutions, both locally and throughout the United States.

Stefanie has a B.A. in Psychology and a Masters Degree in Counseling.  

She is delighted to be the mother of two sons and a daughter and the proud grandmother of seven grandchildren.

Please join us as we honor the Abington School District with our first annual Excellence in Education Award for their pioneering efforts in the development of internationally recognized Holocaust curriculum and awareness/educational programs for grades 5 through 12.

*A portion of the proceeds is a tax-deductible donation to the Holocaust Awareness Museum and Education Center.