Perkins Public Policy Forum to look at escape from Holocaust

NEWCASTLE — The Frances Perkins Center will present its 7th annual Public Policy Forum, “Conscience and Courage: Frances Perkins and Dr. Feng Shan Ho,” focusing on immigration and refugee policy, at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 25.
Participants in the free virtual forum will learn more about how Perkins and Ho used their positions of public office and ingenious strategies, despite strong national government opposition, to provide tens of thousands of Jews a means of escape from the Holocaust in Europe.
Keynote speakers for the forum are Bat-Ami Zucker, historian and professor emerita, Bar-Ilan University, Israel; and Manli Ho, a journalist and biographer for her late father, Ho, who was consul-general of China in Vienna 1938 to 40. Judith Goldstein, executive director of Humanity in Action and FPC board member, will moderate.
While the forum is free, registration is required at www.FrancesPerkinsCenter.org/events/forum.