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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.
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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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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
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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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September 2024
Germany Invades Poland
On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, starting World War II. This year we commemorate the 85th anniversary of the start of the war.
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April 2024
The Bermuda Conference
On April 19, 1943, representatives from the United States and Great Britain met on the island of Bermuda to discuss possible ways to assist wartime refugees. The delegation, coordinated by U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Breckenridge Long, was headed by Harold W. Dodds. This international conference was the second organized by President Roosevelt. Five years earlier in the summer of 1938, he had called upon the world’s leaders to meet at the Evian Conference in the French resort town of Evian to discuss the growing international refugee crisis.
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April 2024
The Bermuda Conference
On April 19, 1943, representatives from the United States and Great Britain met on the island of Bermuda to discuss possible ways to assist wartime refugees. The delegation, coordinated by U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Breckenridge Long, was headed by Harold W. Dodds. This international conference was the second organized by President Roosevelt. Five years earlier in the summer of 1938, he had called upon the world’s leaders to meet at the Evian Conference in the French resort town of Evian to discuss the growing international refugee crisis.
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