Weprin Honored By QCC Holocaust Resource Center

(L. to r.): Kupferberg Center Student Interns Jonathan Hanley; Claude S. Copeland, Jr. and Ashley Morales: Center Advisory Board Chair Dr. Sandra Delson-Deutsch; Weprin, Mart, Harriet Kupferberg, Queensborough Community College Alumni Association President Cheryle Levine, Center Advisory Board member Hanne Liebmann, a Holocaust survivor, and Center Executive Director Dr. Arthur Flug.

Assemblymember Mark Weprin (D-Little Neck, 24th Assembly District) was presented with a citation from the Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Resource Center and Archives at Queensborough Community College for his continuing support of the Center.

"Assemblyman Mark Weprin has been a steadfast friend of the Holocaust Center these many years," Queensborough Community College President Eduardo J. Mart, who presented Assemblyman Weprin with a plaque commemorating the award, said. "His efforts in Albany to rally the entire Queens delegation to support the expansion of the Kupferberg Center have ensured the residents of Queens County with an ongoing educational and social facility to support the study of the Holocaust and its many important lessons."

"The Holocaust Center is so needed," said Weprin, explaining that this part of history is a fundamental and essential lesson to be learned,

particularly in a school and a community with such a diverse cultural population.

Those present along with Weprin and Marti were Center Executive Director Dr. Arthur Flug, Dr. Sandra Delson-Deutsch, chair of the Center Advisory Board, Harriet Kupferberg, chair of the Center Fundraising Committee, Hanne Liebmann, Holocaust survivor and volunteer and Advisory Board member, and Cheryle Levine, Queensborough Community College Alumni Association president.

Recently, Harriet Kupferberg, an active Queens resident and Queensborough Community College board member for decades, gave the college a gift of $1,000,000, the largest donation in its history, to extend the Center's programming in perpetuity. This past September, the Center was dedicated and named for Kupferberg and her late husband, Kenneth.

Also in attendance for the presentation were Claude S. Copeland, Jr., Jonathan Hanley and Ashley Morales, Kupferberg Center student interns. Funding from Weprin helps support the internship program that consists of two tiers of intensive

training in which the interns first concentrate on the history of the Holocaust and then are trained in proper interview techniques so they can appropriately interview

Holocaust survivors. Each intern is paired with a survivor, who in many instances had been about the same age during the Holocaust as the intern is today. The end result

of the internships is the documenting of the stories for the archives, but more important, providing the students with a human connection to an important part of history.