Leah Rozenfeld Sills has been elected to the Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center (HHREC) Board of Directors, and Caryn Tager Stafford has joined the HHREC Advisory Board.
Sills a former librarian at the Riverdale Country School in Bronx, is a board member of the Sousa Mendes Foundation, a director in the Sills Family Foundation, and a community activist who previously served on the boards of Songcatchers, ArtsWestchester and Family Services of Westchester.
Her father and grandparents escaped Poland and survived the Holocaust due to her grandfather and the heroic actions of a Portuguese diplomat stationed in Bordeaux, France.
Stafford is a practicing attorney and counsel in the corporate department real estate group at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. Each year during her tenure at Weil she has been recognized as a “Pro Bono Super Star.”
This year she participated in the 2024 Ride for the Living fundraiser in Krakow, Poland, where she joined riders from around the world on a 60-mile bike ride from Auschwitz/Birkenau to the JCC of Krakow — a journey she described as one that “…symbolically bridges the tragic past of the Holocaust with the hopeful future and rebirth of the Jewish community in Krakow.”
