Honoring the Past: The Voices of Second Generation Survivors

Please join Wagner alumni and friends on Thursday, November 10, 2022 at 6PM CST for the 7th Annual Egon J. Salmon and Family Commemoration of Kristallnacht and the S.S. St. Louis, to be held in the Manzulli Boardroom of Foundation Hall at Wagner College.

The event will feature two 2G speakers who will share their reflections on their parents’ and grandparents’ strategies to escape Nazi Germany and their compelling messages to the next generation. Susan Slater and Joan Loeb will speak about their mothers who were on the St. Louis transatlantic refugee ship. The event will also feature a candle lighting ceremony, and musical performance by Jaylen Grey '24, Molly Nemirow '25 and other members of the Wagner College Choir, as well as a tribute to the life lessons of Egon J. Salmon (1924-2022).

Register here.