Author of book on family history during the Holocaust

Shares testimony her mother gave in 1989, and story of how her family made a 1,241 day journey on the road to freedom.

Joan Arnay Halperin is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, with a BA in Speech and Drama. She earned a Master of Arts Degree in TESOL, and devoted many years to teaching, grant writing and teacher training at various New York City Public Schools.

In 2012, while doing research for her book My Sister’s Eyes: a Family Chronicle of Rescue and Loss During World War II, Joan learned of her family’s debt to the Holocaust rescuer Aristides de Sousa Mendes,the Portuguese Consul General in Bordeaux, France. To read the e-flipbook for free visit www.mysisterseyes.com.

Joan will share excerpts from the testimony her mother Helene Arnay gave on January 1, 1989..

Joan is a member of GenerationsForward, a group of second and third generation individuals sponsored by the Holocaust and Human Rights Education Center of White Plains, New York. In recent years she has dedicated her energies to sharing the story of her family’s 1,241-day journey on the road to freedom with teachers and students at the elementary through university levels.

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