Artwork elicits various emotions in different people. But for Judith Evan Goldstein, art is a way to cope with traumatic personal history.

Goldstein is one of the estimated 35,000 Holocaust survivors who call New York home.

Barbara Gold Strate hoped to share her love of theater with her young daughter, but when the 2-year-old was diagnosed with autism, Strate stopped going to the theater altogether. That changed when she found out about sensory-friendly Broadway performances and realized she didn’t have to give up her passion at all.