Clara and Morton Richmond Scholarship

Morton Richmond, an impoverished 23-year old, immigrated from Russia in 1926. He married Clara Richmond, who was born in Clinton, CT, and the two were married for 62 years. Morton became a prominent real estate investor who owned properties in Brooklyn, The Bronx and Queens, NY. In addition to managing her husband’s office, Clara was a homemaker who raised her four sons in New Rochelle, NY. She was also a talented mezzo-soprano who performed in numerous community productions and conducted the Women’s Westchester Chorale.

Mr. Richmond passed away in 2002 at the age of 100, and Clara died at age 98 in 2017.

Their son Stan is a longtime member of the Ramapo College Foundation Board of Governors, and serves on the board of the Friends of Ramapo. He is also a distinguished member of the CHGS Advisory Board.

He created this scholarship to honor the memory of his parents, and to support students who are interested in understanding the origins, theory and practice of international human rights and the treatment of genocide as a crime under international law.

• Students who are an International Studies major and/or Human Rights and Genocide Studies minor
• GPA of 3.5+

Ernst Aronsohn Memorial Scholarship

Ernst Aronsohn was born in 1917 in the town of Posen, in what is now Poland. At the onset of World War ll he was in school in Italy, and because of his Jewish faith could not return home to his family, who later perished under the Nazis. Instead, Mr. Aronsohn went to Denmark to work on a farm with other young Jews displaced by the War. It was here he met his wife, Erna Meier. When the Nazis invaded Denmark, the Aronsohns were ferried to Sweden by Danish fishermen. At the end of the war, they went to Israel. It was in Israel that Mr. Aronsohn was recruited by the United States to return to Germany to help find Nazi war criminals.

In 1958 the Aronsohns moved to the United States with other Holocaust survivors and settled in Queens, N.Y. Mr. Aronsohn had a successful career in finance. After his wife?s death in 1989 Mr. Aronsohn was visiting a friend in Florida. The friend introduced him to Jane Yanowitz, and they remained constant companions for 25 years.

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