Dr. Lori Weintrob, a distinguished Professor of History at the Holocaust Education Center of Wagner College, Staten Island, New York, United States of America (USA), was part of a program on Mental Health Nursing in Rwanda, an African country that recently experienced genocide.
The program was an attempt to integrate genocide and caring work into international Nursing School curriculum.
Dr. Weintrob is the founding Director of the Wagner College Holocaust Education Center and a Professor of History. She received her B.A. from Princeton University and her MA and PhD from the University of California (UCLA) both in the US.
Lori, according to records, has connected over 5,000 youths in New York and New Jersey to Staten Island’s Holocaust survivors. They learn lessons of empathy and courage in the face of rising anti-Semitism and hate.
She is co-editor of Beyond Bystanders: Educational Leadership for a Human Culture in a Globalizing Reality (2017) and among other scholarly projects, she was co-chair of the international symposium held on June 15-16, 2022, “Heroines of the Holocaust: New Frameworks of Resistance.”
A 2019 Staten Island Woman of Achievement awardee, Dr. Lori has also received awards for interfaith social justice from the Albanian Islamic Cultural Center and the Jewish Community Center.
Pictures here show Dr. Weintrob and others at the Rwanda event.
