Jewish Foundation for the Righteous
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The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous provides financial support to non-Jews who saved Jews during the Holocaust and teaches the history of the Holocaust
New York, NY
Joined March 2011
STORY OF RESCUE: While living with her young daughter in her mother's small apartment in Budapest, Julia Schweder rescued and hid 3 Jewish sisters who had escaped from a cattle car en route to Germany from Czechoslovakia https://t.co/PmOMSwoEXu
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This past weekend, 23 middle and high school educators from eight states gathered in New Jersey for our 2026 Advanced Seminar, with a focus on Holocaust education, antisemitism, and the emerging role of artificial intelligence. Read more in @ca_thej
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#OTD January 20, 1942 SS General Reinhard Heydrich convened The Wannsee Conference in a suburb of Berlin where participants were informed that Himmler would be responsible for the “Final Solution,” a euphemism for the genocide the Nazis were planning.
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The JFR mourns the loss of Krystyna K., a righteous gentile from Poland. She would have turned 95 next month. May her memory be a blessing.
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#OTD January 18, 1943 When Germans entered the Warsaw ghetto preparing for a mass deportation they were stunned when confronted by the Jewish armed resistance. 📷: Mordecai Anielewicz, the leader of the resistance that later became known as the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising"
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#OTD January 17, 1945 The Soviets accused Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat stationed in Budapest, of spying for the Germans and arrested him. He is credited with saving the lives of thousands of Jews. He died in prison in 1947. https://t.co/L3bqNiLYiE
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#OTD January 17, 1945 With the Soviet army advancing towards #Auschwitz, the Nazis began leading tens of thousands of inmates on forced “death marches.” Many died of exposure, exhaustion, starvation, brutality, or simple murder by their captors.
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This upcoming weekend, 26 middle & high school teachers, Holocaust center staff & JFR board members from 9 states will participate in our Advanced Seminar. The two day academic program explores a number of topics addressing the history of the Holocaust #Teach4JFR
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We asked JFR Lerner Fellow Betina Roher why it's so important to her to teach her students about the Holocaust. Listen to her important answer!
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When Jerzy arrived in #Auschwitz in 1940, he was tasked with being an electrician, enabling him to move around more freely. He would often cause a short circuit to smuggle food & medicine in his toolbox and distribute it to Jewish inmates #JFRrescuer
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January is all about new beginnings. Let's make this year one where we deepen our commitment to teaching the Holocaust and fostering a world where compassion and understanding are at the fore. Our educators are the key to this vision.
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#OTD January 6, 1929 Heinrich Himmler was appointed head of the SS & would go on to become one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany & the key official behind the conception of the Final Solution, the Nazi’s plans to murder the Jews in Europe 📷: SS chief Heinrich Himmler
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Please join us in wishing a happy birthday to #JFRrescuer Janina R. from Poland who is turning 104 today! 🎂🎉
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#OTD January 5, 1919 The German Workers' Party (which would later be renamed "National Socialist German Workers' Party" or the "Nazi Party" for short) was founded in Munich
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Please join us in wishing a happy birthday to #JFRRescuer Tamara O. from Belarus who turned 96 yesterday! 🎂🎉 In 1941, as a student living in Nazi-occupied White Russia, she joined a partisan resistance group & rescued Jews from the Minsk ghetto https://t.co/kwH4ok8oFk
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In 1941, Lucyna Antonowicz lived in Vilna with her parents & sister. Following the establishment of the Vilna ghetto and the German order for all Jews to move into the ghetto, Lucyna & her family saved a Jewish woman named Joanna Piasecka. Read her story: https://t.co/6uMMXe5GFh
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