Our Past 2026 Events
Sunday, January 18, 2026
1:30 PM (1 pm for Schmoozing and Mentoring)
Speaker: Deborah Long, Professional Educator and Author
Deborah Long has been researching her family history and searching for surviving family members for more than 60 years. She started as a ten-year-old, writing to the International Red Cross. Both of her parents were Holocaust survivors and were in some of the worst places imaginable: Auschwitz, Bergen Belsen, Buchenwald and more.
Deborah is a professional educator and speaker, though typically her audiences are licensed professionals who are required to attend real estate continuing education programs. She has written more than 20 books, including a memoir about growing up as a child of survivors titled “First Hitler, Then Your Father, and Now You.” She earned her doctorate in adult education. She is the founder and first president of Triangle JGS of North Carolina (Chapel Hill/Durham/Raleigh).
Topic: Out of the Whirlwind: Resources for Holocaust Research
The daughter of two Holocaust survivors, Deborah Long reviews the best (as well as some of the obscure) resources and methods for determining the fate of those involved in the Holocaust, including survivors and victims. Deborah will use examples from her own research to demonstrate the documents and artifacts she discovered to determine her family’s fate.