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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.

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The Gianopoulou and Axiopoulos Families

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

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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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

The Gianopoulou and Axiopoulos Families

A Hero of Our Own: The Story of Varian Fry