International Holocaust Remembrance Day: Rabbi Philip Lazowski, Transforming Darkness Into Light.

Rabbi Philip Lazowski will be joined in conversation by co-author Suzanne Pinkes and educator Stu Abrams to discuss his new book, Transforming Darkness Into Light. Drawing on 95 years of lived experience, Rabbi Lazowski reflects on faith, friendship, and education as the tools needed to confront hatred and strengthen resilient identities—offering a timely roadmap for the future of Holocaust education.

Rabbi Philip Lazowski’s story is extraordinary. Born in 1930, he survived a selection due to the kindness of a stranger and shortly after escaped from a second-story window to hide in the woods, where he remained for the duration of the war. Years later, a coincidental meeting at a wedding led him back to the stranger who first saved his life; her daughter became his loving wife, Ruth. Rabbi spent his life honoring his mother’s charge, given as she pushed him from that second-story window; he made sure that the world would know what happened during the Shoah. Serving as a rabbi since 1954 at Hartford’s Congregation Beth Sholom Synagogue, Bloomfield’s Beth Hillel Synagogue, and now as Rabbi Emeritus of The Emanuel Synagogue in West Hartford, he has spoken to thousands of people around the world, educating them about the dangers of hate and serving as an example of the power of individual action. He has also served as Chaplain for Hartford Hospital’s Institute of Living, the Hartford Police, and the Connecticut State Senate. Rabbi is the author of over a dozen books.

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