Sal Rosenkranz, an 89 year-old Holocaust survivor, spoke at the Queens College Hillel Monday afternoon. Mr. Rosenkranz told students about his experience in the holocaust, starting from the initial Nazi invasion of his hometown of Krosniewice, Poland. Rosenkranz spoke about living in concentration camps, including the six weeks he spent at the infamous Buchenwald. He explained that he faced a number of situations in which he felt his death was inevitable, but that somehow he had survived, though much of his family was killed in Treblinka.
The speech was accompanied by the presentation of a miniature museum, modeled after the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. The mini-museum was built by members of the Queens College Hillel.
About forty people attended the event, which was followed by a free lunch, sponsored by the Hillel.

A new literary magazine at Queens College, 72nd Avenue, is set to release its Jew-Issue on Tuesday.
“We’re hoping to accomplish two things with the magazine: foster a sense of pride in being Jewish on campus and provide the non-Jewish student population with a fun look at what it means to be Jewish on campus,” explained Michael Orbach, 72nd Avenue’s editor-in-chief.
The issue will include a story by Etgar Keret, one of Israel’s most popular writers, as well as an interview with the writer of Pirates of the Caribbean.The magazine will also feature an interview with Jeffrey Goldberg, formerly the New Yorker’s correspondent on Israel. The “Top Ten Jewish Graduates of Queens College,” a list that includes Ron Jeremy, will be another feature.

More than 100 students departed New York Saturday night to head to Greenbelt, Maryland, for a trip to the United States Holocaust Museum on Sunday.
The Queens College Hillel planned this year’s “Hillels of New York Trip to The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.” The trip, sponsored by the David and Linda Taub Family, has been sending Jewish and African-American students to the Holocaust museum in Washington DC annually for over a decade.
The program is designed to unite Jewish and African-American students through the mutual historical experience of persecution and suffereing, said trip organizer Itiel Katz. “It’s also to inform people,” Katz said, noting that ” it’s interesting to take a group with no connection at all [to the Holocaust, when] we assume its crucial to other people.”
Students from various campuses within the New York Metropolitan Area participated in the trip. On Sunday morning the group went on a short tour of the capital building before going to the Holocaust Museum for a self-guided tour that is supposed to take around four hours to complete. After visiting the museum, students listened to a presentation from Lynn Williams, an African-American woman who works as a professional educator for the museum. Her presentation was followed by a sit-down dinner.

It’ll be a “Jewssue,” or Jew-issue, for the second edition of indie start-up magazine 72nd Avenue.
Editor-in-Chief Michael Orbach, a senior at Queens, told CampusJ that Jews make up over thirty-five percent of the student population at Queens College and have been highly-active in everything from the newspaper, to the student government, to running the food court. Partially-funded by the Hillel organization, the Jewssue will examine the rich history of Jewish students at QC and the impact they’ve had.
Orbach said he is not sure what the issue will look like, but some possible features include “The Top Ten Jewish Graduates of QC” (and the ones that didn’t make it), profiles of the future leaders of the Jewish community at QC right now, and non-fiction (”What it’s like to be the only non-Jew on QC”), all with a heavy dose of appropriate cynicism and sarcasm. Orbach hopes to release the Jewssue within the next month.