Wiesel and Imber Share Shoah Lessons By Pearl Markovitz | March 10, 2021 For the past 23 years, the American Society of Yad Vashem (ASYV) has sponsored a conference on Holocaust Education. Named in memory of Barbara Gutfreund Arfa, z”l, a child of Holocaust survivors and an advocate for teaching future generations about the lessons of hope, courage and resilience from the Holocaust, the conference has addressed thousands of educators and through them no fewer than 100,000 students to date. This year’s conference, entitled “History Repeats Itself: Making Sure Our Students Are Listening,” took place virtually on Sunday, March 7, and hosted nearly 200 educators from the tri-state area, 17 states and seven countries.