2008 GALA DINNER

Korczak Teaching Award recipient, Wendy Lindner

Dr. Steven Meed, Honorary Dinner Chair Vladka Meed and Ghetto Fighters’ Museum Director Simcha Stein – please click here to read Vladka's speech

President and Journal Chair Amy Miller and Dinner Chair Brian Schreiber - please click here to read Amy's speech

Honorary Korczak Award Recipient Richard Sonnenfeldt and Jack Topal, Treasurer

Journal Chair Nira Abramowitz and Simcha Stein – please click here to read Simcha's speech

Major-General Benjamin Gantz and Board member Ada Benerofe

Richard Sonnenfeldt and Major General Benjamin Gantz

Board member Mark Sarna, Executive Director Orna Alroy and Morris Sarna

Barbara Sonnenfeldt and Richard Sonnenfeldt – please click here to read Richard's speech

Michael Sonnenfeldt and Brian Schreiber

Presenter of Teaching Korczak Award Danielle Sarna – please click here to read Danielle's speech

Richard Sonnnenfeldt and Honorary Korczak Award presenter Edward J. Miller – please click here to read Ed’s speech

Michael Sonnenfeldt and Simcha Stein

Katja Goldman Sonnenfeldt and Richard Sonnenfeldt

American Friends President Amy Miller and Assistant Director Nathalie Shapir-Ishay

Ann Oster, Simcha Stein and Rita Lerner

On May 13, over three hundred supporters gathered for the American Friends Annual Gala Dinner at the Pierre Hotel in NYC. The Honorary Korczak Award was presented to Richard Sonnenfeldt for his contribution to the prosecution of Nazi perpetrators at the Nuremberg Trial of Major Nazi War Criminals of 1945. The Korczak Teaching Award for outstanding work in the field of Holocaust education was presented to Wendy Lindner of Freeport High School in Freeport, NY. The speakers at the Gala included Vladka Meed, Dinner Honorary Chair, Major- General Benjamin (Benny) Gantz, Israel Defence and Armed Forces Attache to the US and Canada, Richard Sonnenfeldt, Wendy Lindner and Danielle Sarna.

Mr. Jack Topal, treasurer of The American Friends of The Ghetto Fighters' Museum, was honored on May 1, 2008 by lighting a torch at the national closing ceremony for Israel's Yom Hashoah commemoration held at The Ghetto Fighters' Museum and attended by over 10,000 people. The ceremony is the oldest and largest running Holocaust commemoration event in the world.