The Media and Holocaust Memory: Doing Good on the Global Stage

Join Leslie Gelrubin Benitah, U.S. producer of The Last Ones, a global independent project that honors the last survivors of the Holocaust through web series, books, podcasts, documentaries, conferences, and films, for a conversation with Professor Neil Reisner marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp.

Activist, philanthropist, and third-generation survivor Leslie Gelrubin Benitah was born and raised in Paris and earned her PhD in Journalism from the Sorbonne. After moving to Miami, she decided to dedicate herself entirely to Holocaust education. Leslie is currently producing The Last Ones / Les Derniers, a series of short documentaries on the last Holocaust survivors. Thus far over 160 episodes have been produced in French and English, garnering several million views and tens of thousands of subscribers.

Neil Reisner, associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, is a veteran journalist and journalism educator with interests in the ways media covers issues of diversity, ethnicity and religion. Reisner was a daily newspaper reporter/editor for 25 years, working at the Miami Herald and the Record in Bergen County, NJ, among others, and pioneered what is now called database journalism.

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Co-sponsored by The Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach

Host or Publisher The Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs