Alec Weissman

Alec Weissman of East Brunswick, NJ is a Literature major with minors in both Human Rights/Genocide Studies and International Studies. He has a 3.60 GPA.

Alec served as President of the Student Government Association during the 2015-2016. He is also a brother of Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity, International as he hopes to attend law school following graduation.  He also played for the Ramapo’s men’s varsity volleyball team.

Alec participated in the 2015 Pan American Maccabi games in Santiago, Chile. He also interned at the Museum of Jewish Heritage this past summer, and will be interning at a non-governmental organization, Grupo Cajola, in spring of 2017.

Awarded Scholarships

2017

Aronsohn, Ernst 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.  At Mr. Aronsohn’s death in 2015, the Yanowitz family created this scholarship to honor his memory.