Rose Rosenkranz

Rose Rosenkranz is the Director of Education Emeritus of Temple Beth David in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Over her 45 years working in Jewish Education, Rose has developed intergenerational programs, her students ranging from preschoolers to post-graduate adults. Her innovative educational ideas have widely circulated throughout Palm Beach County and beyond.
Rose served on the State Committee to develop a Holocaust curriculum for Florida Public Schools and taught Holocaust Infusion classes to professors of various subjects at Palm Beach Community College. In 1988, Rose became National Coordinator of The March of the Living, an international teen program that has taken over 250,000 teens from 50 countries to Poland and Israel, teaching them first-hand where prejudice and discrimination can lead.
Born in a Slave Labor Camp in Siberia in 1944 to Ed and Helen Lefkowitz, Rose miraculously survived to the war’s end, at which point the young family waited 3 years in a Displaced Persons Camp in Germany for visas to come to the U.S. Growing up in New York, Rose graduated from Hunter College with a bachelor’s degree in Sociology and Early Childhood Education. She studied an additional 2 years with the Board of Jewish Education. Rose continues to teach and lecture to groups, classes and organizations.