Stacy Bratt Seltzer, President and Education Committee Chair
Stacy is the grandchild of two Holocaust survivors, Esther and Sidney Bratt. She has always been conscious of the role the Holocaust played in her family and takes great pride in continuing the legacy that her grandparents have created. After returning from Birthright's March of the Living program in 2006, she became active with 3GNY. In 2009, after moving to Boston, she and her husband co-founded Boston 3G. Stacy and her family now reside in Pennsylvania where she recently helped create 3G Philly. She also sits on the board of 3GNY. Stacy graduated from Muhlenberg College and received her JD from Suffolk University Law School. She hopes that by sharing their stories, she can educate and inspire future generations to learn from her family's history.
Rachel Howe, Vice President
Rachel Howe is the grandchild of two Holocaust survivors, her grandfather Karl on her mother's side and her grandmother Charlotte on her father's side. Rachel has dedicated her personal and professional life to teaching tolerance and advocating for equity. She is Vice President of 3G Philly and sits on the board of and is on the steering committee of the Raab Goodwin Center for Holocaust Education in Cherry Hill, NJ. She taught Holocaust history and writing for two summers with Philadelphia Futures.
Rachel works as a grant writer for Temple University, where she has taught first year writing and creative writing. She has published several short stories, poems, and essays. In her free time, she enjoys yoga, hiking, biking and other adventures. She lives in South Philadelphia with her 4 very adorable and nearly perfect children and their cute but needy black lab.
Sarah Magen, Treasurer
Sarah is the granddaughter of Helen and Joseph Kopman, who survived the Warsaw ghetto uprising, imprisonment at Auschwitz and the loss of their entire respective families. Despite this legacy of pain, they were able to come to America and build a new and incredible life -- something for which Sarah hopes she never loses her awe and appreciation. Sarah is excited to help 3G Philly further its mission in the role of Treasurer. She lives in Jenkintown with her husband, Jonathan and her daughter, Bea. Sarah has a J.D. from Yale Law School and a B.A. from the University of Connecticut, and currently works as a lawyer at AstraZeneca.
Cindy Chronister, Secretary
Cindy is the granddaughter of two Holocaust refugees, Carl and Matilde Reiser who both escaped Nazi occupied Vienna. Her grandparents never wanted to share their story with others despite repeated requests. After the death of her grandparents’, Cindy's family discovered a box in her grandparents’ apartment with documentation about their life in Vienna before and during the occupation as well as documentation of their rescue. In May 2019, Cindy and her family went to Vienna to not only learn about her grandparents' lives but to have memorial stones placed at her great-grandparents’ former residences. After participating in WEDU in May 2020 (thank you Covid), Cindy wanted to get more involved in the 3G community and found 3G Philly. Cindy and her family reside in the Reading area. She is a school psychologist working with children with learning needs and mental health challenges. Cindy continues to scan, preserve, and translate dozens of letters between her grandparents and great-grandparents from during the war.
Jennifer Anolik, Board Member
Jennifer Anolik is a writer, educator, and 3rd generation holocaust survivor who lives in Northern Liberties, Philadelphia. Along with the 3G board, she also serves on the volunteer steering committee for the Raab/Goodwin Holocaust Museum and Education Center, the organization that helped her grandmother, Erna Anolik share her holocaust experience in schools throughout New Jersey. Jennifer is the Director of Moving Traditions’ Kol Koleinu fellowship, a year-long program that gives teens across the country the skills to take part in Jewish, feminist social-changemaking. When she isn’t leading fellowships, designing curriculum, or writing poetry, you can find her playing multi-hour long strategy board games and working through the menus of all the bubble tea shops in Philly’s Chinatown.
Sophie Don, Board Member and Programming Committee Chair
Sophie Don is the Senior Manager of Programs & Operations for the Philadelphia Holocaust Remembrance Foundation (PHRF) and the Program Committee Chair of 3G Philly.
Sophie received her MA from Brown University in the Public Humanities, which built on her BA in History at Skidmore College where she focused her research on Holocaust education and memorialization across the United States and in Berlin.
Along with her former studies, Sophie has a personal passion for her positions with PHRF and for 3G Philly, as her grandparents and several other family members are survivors and were involved in the effort to create Philadelphia’s Holocaust Memorial. Sophie’s paternal grandparents met as teenagers in a displaced persons camp near Stuttgart after their respective liberations. They came to Northeast Philadelphia to join Bubbie’s two surviving siblings. There they opened a bakery on Bustleton Avenue. Sophie’s Bubbie is 93 and lives in Elkins Park.
Allison Lindemann, Board Member
Speaking "Yiddish to Chickens" was the theme that Ali grew up with. Her father's parents, Beniek and Lea, survived the war, separately, in Poland and came together to the United States with the help of HIAS. Her grandparents bought a farm in Vineland, NJ with their two daughters and shortly after, their son Aaron (Allison’s father) was born. Growing up in Cherry Hill, Aaron would take Ali on drives to Vineland to visit her Bubby. There was always a warm meal and a welcoming conversation which helped Ali develop an understanding and appreciation of being present. Her grandmother taught her how resiliency and empathy can define one's character.
Today Ali lives in Philadelphia with her husband Jeremy and two sons, Mason and Kyle. Ali has her BSBA from the University of Florida and MBA from Temple University. She spent the last 23 years in Banking and is embarking on a new career in the Food Business. She recently joined the Board to honor her family's memories and continue to tell the stories and lessons of the Shoah so they are not lost. Ali’s focus is on helping 3G Philly engage and connect with the South Jersey community.
Meghan Stevenson-Krausz, Board Member
Originally from Philadelphia, Meghan Stevenson-Krausz lived in the UK for five years where she studied International Relations at the University of St Andrews and a Masters in Human Rights at the London School of Economics. She wrote her Masters thesis on using Sesame Street to humanize the other in conflict zones. As the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors on her father’s side, she has always felt a calling to help others, a commitment to ensure never again for anyone.
Meghan previously worked at the New Israel Fund and Spark, a gender-equity nonprofit that became part of Global Fund for Women. In 2019 she moved to Lima, Peru to become the Director of INCA Ventures, a VC fund based in Lima investing in startups from the Andean region with a focus on Fintech and underrepresented founders. Film has always been an area of interest. As such she has done archival research for two documentaries, most recently Bill Nye: Science Guy, which premiered at SXSW and was featured on Independent Lens.
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