Former Fellow, Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Rachel Brown is a dynamic force who speaks to the power of communication how it can divide and how it can unite. For the past decade, she has focused on using communication to prevent violent conflict. After her 2014 fellowship with the Museum s Simon-Skjodt Center, Rachel authored
Defusing Hate: A Strategic Communication Guide to Counteract Dangerous Speech. She previously founded and ran Sisi ni Amani-Kenya (SNA-K), a Kenyan NGO that pioneered new strategies to build local capacity for peacebuilding and civic engagement
Rachel is the founder and executive director of Over Zero, a non-profit organization that emerged out of the work of SNA-K. Over Zero partners with community leaders, civil society, and researchers to use the power of communication to prevent and rise above identity-based violence and other forms of group-targeted harm. Programming is focused on the United
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Irene Fogel Weiss points to a photo of herself upon arrival in Auschwitz in May 1944. (Lesley Weiss/ via JTA)
JTA When Irene Fogel Weiss watched rioters storm the US Capitol, just miles from her home in suburban Virginia, her thoughts turned to her parents murdered by the Nazis nearly 80 years earlier.
“As I was watching, I was thinking maybe I shouldn’t be like my parents,” the 90-year-old Holocaust survivor told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “I should think about doing something, although the thoughts were very vague because just like my parents with six children, you don’t just pick up a family and leave your life. So of course I have no specific plans, but it came into my head that I should think about it.”
Irene Fogel Weiss survived Auschwitz. Then she watched a rioter in a Camp Auschwitz shirt break into the Capitol. February 2, 2021 3:51 pm Irene Fogel Weiss points to a photo of herself upon arrival in Auschwitz in May 1944. (Lesley Weiss)
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(JTA) When Irene Fogel Weiss watched rioters storm the U.S. Capitol, just miles from her home in suburban Virginia, her thoughts turned to her parents murdered by the Nazis nearly 80 years earlier.
“As I was watching, I was thinking maybe I shouldn’t be like my parents,” the 90-year-old Holocaust survivor told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “I should think about doing something, although the thoughts were very vague because just like my parents with six children, you don’t just pick up a family and leave your life. So of course I have no specific plans, but it came into my head that I should think about it.”