2025 South Florida Dinner

In these uncertain times, amid the dangerous surge in antisemitism, conspiracy theories, and Holocaust distortion, our community stands together to support the Museum’s critical mission. Join us to honor survivors and learn how we are reaching new generations with the timely lessons of this history to inspire action today.

Together with event chairs Diane and Dr. Glen Mogan, we invite you to see a more complex picture of Auschwitz in the months before liberation that is revealed in the Höcker album. The album contains the last known photos of Auschwitz in operation, showing Nazis at leisure at the same time that hundreds of thousands of Jews were being murdered. Hear how the album became part of the Museum’s collection, what it teaches us about the Holocaust, and how it inspired a play that was a 2024 Pulitzer Prize finalist.

For questions or information about sponsorship opportunities, please contact the Southeast Regional Office at 561.995.6773 or southeast@ushmm.org. Thank you for supporting our vital mission.

To see highlights from the 2024 South Florida Dinner, please watch this short video. To learn more about this year’s speaker and chairs, scroll below.

Featured Guests

Speakers

Dr. Rebecca Erbelding
Museum Historian
Dr. Rebecca Erbelding has been a historian, curator, and archivist at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for 21 years and served as the lead historian on the Museum’s special exhibition, Americans and the Holocaust. She holds a PhD in American history from George Mason University.
She is the protagonist of Here There Are Blueberries. The play, a 2024 Pulitzer Prize finalist, was inspired by a photo album in the Museum’s collection showing how Nazis at Auschwitz spent their leisure time.
Erbelding’s first book, Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America’s Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe (Doubleday, 2018), won the National Jewish Book Award for excellence in writing based on archival research. She and her work are featured in the 2022 PBS documentary The U.S. and the Holocaust, directed by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein, a film for which she served as a historical advisor. She is currently writing Shelter on the Lake: 982 Holocaust Refugees and an American Small Town about the Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter (1944–1946), which will be published by Simon and Schuster in 2026.
Photography: Tim Coburn

Herman Haller
Special Guest and Holocaust Survivor
Herman Haller was born in Berlin in 1924. In 1938, Nazis orchestrated violence against the Jewish population and destruction of their property during what came to be known as Kristallnacht, or the “Night of Broken Glass.” Herman’s family could no longer run their furniture business, which had been targeted.
Herman, 14, and his younger brother, 11, fled to Belgium. Over the next three and a half years, they received some assistance from relatives, Jewish organizations, and strangers in Belgium and France but often survived on their own. Their mother tried to arrange for them to come to England, where she had joined her sister. Herman was caught in a roundup in 1942 and sent to a forced labor camp in northern France, where he contracted typhoid. After recovering, the Nazis deported him to Auschwitz in October 1942 at the age of 18. He managed to survive the brutal conditions at Auschwitz for over two years. In January 1945, as the Soviet forces closed in, Auschwitz officials began evacuating the camp. Herman endured a death march that ended at Buchenwald, where he was liberated by American troops in April 1945. After the war, he found out his brother had survived in hiding. Herman immigrated to the United States and married. He has shared his experiences with students for decades. In July 2024, Herman celebrated his 100th birthday with his two daughters, four grandchildren, and three great grandchildren.

Event Leadership

Event Chairs

Diane and Dr. Glen Mogan
Diane and Dr. Glen Mogan are committed to Holocaust memory and education. Their generous support of the Museum’s “Educating a 21st-Century Global Audience Impact Fund” provides critical resources to expand awareness and understanding of the Holocaust. Their names are inscribed on the Museum’s Donors Wall to honor their parents, who are Holocaust survivors.
Glen’s father, Harry Mogan, immigrated with his family from Austria to the United States in April 1938, a month after Nazi Germany annexed Austria. Glen’s mother, Else Becicka Mogan, fled Austria for America eight months later. Her family was able to follow in spring 1939.
Drafted into the US Army in 1942, Harry Mogan landed on Omaha Beach in France ten days after D-Day. He served during the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp and later helped Jewish women in Volary who had barely survived a death march.
Diane’s parents, Margo Schloss Haberman and Paul Haberman, experienced Kristallnacht, or the “Night of Broken Glass,” in November 1938 in Nuremberg, Germany, (Margo) and Nazi-annexed Austria (Paul). Nazi leaders orchestrated violent attacks against the Jewish population in Germany and recently incorporated territories, destroying Jewish-owned businesses, synagogues, and homes. Margo was 13 at the time. After Nazis terrorized her family, wrecked their home, and confiscated her father’s business, the family immigrated to the United States in early 1939. Many of the Mogans’ relatives were killed in the Holocaust.
Glen was a gastroenterologist in New Jersey for more than 40 years and currently serves as a clinical affiliate assistant professor at Florida Atlantic University. Diane and Glen reside in Delray Beach. They are the proud parents of three sons and have five grandchildren.
Photography: Visual Enterprises, LLC

Event Sponsors

Gifts as of January 17, 2025

Caryn J. Clayman Marsha and Henry Laufer The Shirley & Milton Levy Charitable Foundation Susan and Bart Lewis

Arthur M. Gutterman Rebecca and J. David Heller The Kay Family Foundation Lainie and Kenny Lipschutz Samowitz Foundation Scherr Family Foundation Eva and Marvin Schlanger Anne Schuchman and Stephen Light Kurt and Marilyn Wallach Family Foundation

David Coppa in memory of Simon Konover Cobbie and Richard Danzansky Marla and Steve Garchik—The Garchik Family Foundation Sunny and Jim Kincaid Craig Menin Diane and Dr. Glen Mogan Fanny and Alfred Narotzky Rabbi Richard and Suzanne Polirer Sue E. Wilder Janna and Sheffield Wolk Nancy Yanofsky and Ed Brown

Lois Alperstein in memory of Leslie Michael Alperstein, PhD Bank of America Charitable Foundation Bernard and Pamela Barbash Family Foundation Maxine Bernstein Rita and Edward Berro The Bialer Family Foundation Steven, Susan, and Hilde Breitbart Toby and Leon Cooperman Deloitte LLP Robert and Gail Edelstein Foundation, Inc. Iris Fisher Joy and David* Grossmann and Family JPMorgan Chase & Co. Evyan and Robert Koenig Carole Sue Lebbin and Phillip Spector Helen Farber Marshall MorseLife Next Generations Bilha Ron in memory of Sam Ron Sherri Samuels Renee A. Singer Sara and Phil Stern Susan and Jeffrey Stern

In Memory of the 6,000,000 ($6,000–$9,999)

Barbara Baumstein Harriet and Lou Berneman Marleen and Martin Brody Beejay and Donald S. Brown Lynn and William* Foggle Ruth and Sylvan Goldin Arlene, Karen, and Michael Herson Cynthia Lewis Tamara and Richard Morgenstern Julie Peyton and Don Tolep Senator Nan and David Rich Diane and James Vogel

Barbara and Arthur Berger Jane and Robert Coppa Vivian and David Delman Michael Dezertzov Ruth and Randy Friedlander Glickfield Family Foundation Pearl and Stanley Goodman Marcy and Alan Honig Holly and Steven Jonas Melvin F. Lazar Sharon and David Leiman Daisy and John Merey Barbara and Robert Pick Stacy Reines Irene and Robert Russel Melissa and Jeffrey Schachar

Annes Foundation Barbara and Fred Edelstein Marianna and Edward Rabinovitch Lisa and Jeff Rosenkranz Robin & Gary Rubin, Amy & David Ross, Andrea & Larry Schnurmacher Frieda and Lawrence Shefter Tracy Stein

Meryl and Stuart Ain Miriam and Sidney Atzmon Rabbi Daniel and Esther Azulay Eve Ida Barak Shelley and Alex Danziger in memory of Jane Kartusz Danziger Henri and Heni Galel Janet Goldman Sheila and Jay Grossman Marilynn Klaiman in memory of Sam Klaiman Marilyn and Fred Kleinberg Linda Fellner Lachman and Gary Lachman Erna and Lawrence Martino Judith and Mark Needle Norma and Marvin Ravikoff Roberta and Joe Rotberg Deborah Siegel Rose M. Smith and Mickey Wolfson Deborah and Michael Stapler Monica and Richard Sussman Barbara and Craig Weiner Carole Weller

*Deceased

In-Kind Contributions

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Featured Guests

Speakers

Event Leadership

Event Chairs

Event Sponsors

Premier Sponsor ($100,000–$249,999)

Donors Wall Sponsor ($50,000–$99,999)

Leadership Circle Sponsor ($25,000–$49,999)

Table Sponsor ($10,000–$24,999)

In Memory of the 6,000,000 ($6,000–$9,999)

Wings of Memory Society Sponsor ($5,000–$5,999)

Double Chai Sponsor ($3,600–$4,999)

Chai Sponsor ($1,800–$3,599)

In-Kind Contributions

Media Sponsor

Southeast Regional Office

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