City Tech to commemorate `Kristallnacht’
Roald Hoffmann, winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and escapee from a Nazi labor camp in Poland, will speak on “Returning, Remembering, Forgiving,” at New York City College of Technology (City Tech) on Thursday, November 8, 12:45 p.m., in the Atrium Amphitheater, 300 Jay St., Downtown Brooklyn.
The public is invited to this free event. It is being produced by City Tech’s Jewish Faculty & Staff Association (JFSA) in commemoration of Kristallnacht, the coordinated attacks against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria that took place on Nov. 9-10, 1938, considered by many to mark the beginning of the Holocaust.
An American theoretical chemist and Cornell University Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters, Emeritus, Dr. Hoffmann will receive JFSA’s Distinguished Humanitarian Award. His talk will focus on his harrowing experiences during World War II as well as on his education and early experiences after coming to America in 1949. He will be introduced by writer, theater director and co-owner of Cornelia Street Café Robin Hirsch, author of “Last Dance at the Hotel Kempinski.”