19th Annual Richard J. Yashek Memorial Lecture
Thursday, March 27, 2025
Albright College, Freedman Gallery
This year’s speaker is Boaz Dvir, the founding director of Penn State’s Hammel Family Human Rights Initiative and the Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Education Initiative.
His lecture, titled 80 Years Later: Fulfilling Holocaust Education’s Great Promise, examines how and why traditional Holocaust education has failed, what we can do to uproot antisemitism and other forms of hate, and how we can strengthen democracy. He discusses a new, innovative way to deliver on Holocaust education’s great promise.
We are thrilled to welcome such a prestigious speaker to our community and thank the Yashek family and Vic and Dena Hammel for their support and commitment to this annual lecture. We hope you will join us at this year’s Richard J. Yashek Memorial Lecture.