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Stories of Rescue
Rescuer Support
The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous (JFR) provides monthly financial assistance to aged and needy Righteous Gentiles, non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. The majority of the rescuers receiving financial support live in Eastern Europe, with Poland having the largest number of rescuers. The JFR provides a special award at Christmas for the purchase of food, medicine, and home heating fuel.
Stories of Rescue
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Featured Rescuer
Melpomeni Gianopoulou
Mentes and Miriam Mordechai and their five children lived in Veria, Greece. Melpomeni's sister worked for the Mordechai family. When the persecution of Jews began in 1942, Melpomeni and her sisters agreed to help the family. The youngest child died while in hiding. Everyone else survived the war.
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Holocaust Education
Holocaust Education
The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous (JFR) is committed to teaching the history of the Holocaust and to preserving the legacy of Righteous Gentiles, non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. We do this through our Holocaust teacher education program.
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Teacher Education
The JFR education program educates middle and high school teachers from across the United States as well as U.S. Holocaust center personnel about the history of the Holocaust, the history of antisemitism, rescue, and the context in which these heroic rescuers acted.
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Haggadah Supplement
Our 2024 Haggadah Supplement featured the Ruzgys family from Lithuania.
About the JFR
About the JFR
During the Holocaust there were thousands on non-Jews who refused to be passive in the face of the evil they witnessed, rescuing Jews, often at risk to their own lives and the lives of their families. In 1986, Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis z"l established The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous (JFR) to fulfill the traditional Jewish commitment to
hakarat hatov
, the searching out and recognition of goodness.
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The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous
80 Main Street, Suite 380
West Orange, NJ 07052
973.736.1800
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How Was it Possible? A Holocaust Curriculum For and By Teachers™
We are pleased to announce our new online program,
How Was it Possible? A Holocaust Curriculum For and By Teachers™.
The program provides middle and high school teachers and their students with a Holocaust unit of study.
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Remembering Those Who Served
Stanlee Stahl
2024-05-27
Celebrating 31 Years at the JFR and Attending a Beatification Ceremony in Markova, Poland
by
Stanlee Stahl
2023-09-07
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Celebrating an Anniversary!
by
2017-09-14
September 7, 1992, was my first day at the JFR. Last week, I celebrated my 25th anniversary at the JFR - it has been a terrific 25 years! I have no idea where the time has gone.
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Remembering an American Solider Who Gave his Life for our Country - Stanley Goldblum
by
Stanlee Stahl
2014-05-26
On May 28 1944, PFC Stanley Goldblum was killed in action in the battle of Rome. Stanley Goldblum was my uncle and I am named for him.
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Remembering a Noble Man
by
Stanlee Stahl
2013-05-31
Guido de Gorgey, a Righteous Gentile from Hungary, passed away peacefully this morning in New York City at the age of 93.
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Remembering and Honoring Those Who Serve
by
Stanlee Stahl
2013-05-27
On this Memorial Day, let us take the time to remember those men and women who serve and sacrifice.
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Preparing for our 2013 Summer Institute for Teachers
by
Stanlee Stahl
2013-05-23
We are busy making final plans for our 2013 Summer Institute for Teachers.
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