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Rescuer Support
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
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
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.
Education Programs
Centers of Excellence
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How Was it Possible?
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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How Was it Possible
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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
2025 European Study Program
The 2025 European Study Program group in Amsterdam
Holocaust Memorial
Stolpersteine
Stanlee Stahl and Robert Jan van Pelt in Amsterdam
The group in Amsterdam
Robert Jan van Pelt at the National Names Memorial in Amsterdam
Robert Jan van Pelt pointing to his relatives's names at the National Names Memorial in Amsterdam
Anne Frank plaque at the National Names Memorial in Amsterdam
Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam
Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam
Stolpersteine
National Holocaust Musem in Ams
Anne Frank Sculpture in front of the Anne Frank Family Home
The group at the Anne Frank Family Home
Amy McDonald at the Anne Frank Family Home
Anne Frank Family Home
Anne Frank Family Home
Anne Frank Family Home
Anne Frank Family Home
Stanlee at the Anne Frank Family Home
Anne Frank Family Home
Anne Frank House
Anne Frank House
Stolpersteine
Stanlee Stahl and Karen Polak, senior staff at Anne Frank House
Shabbat Dinner in Amsterdam
The group at the Felix Nussbaum Haus
The groupat the Felix Nussbaum Haus
Felix Nussbaum self-portrait at the Felix Nussbaum Haus
The group in Flensburg, Germany
The group in Bergen-Belsen
Froeslev Camp, Denmark
Froeslev Camp, Denmark
Robert Jan van Pelt, Froeslev Camp, Denmark
Froeslev Camp, Denmark
Froeslev Camp, Denmark
White Bus, Froeslev, Denmark
White Bus, Froeslev, Denmark
White Bus, Froeslev, Denmark
Artifact, Froeslev, Denmark
Group in Copenhagen
Copenhagen
Sign for the original Elisabeth fishing boat used during rescue, Denmark
Fishing Boat Monument, Gilleleje, Denmark
Church in Gilleleje where Jews hid
The group in Gillelje, Denmark
Group taking a ferry boat from Denmark to Sweden
Boat from Denmark to Sweden
Jewish Cemetery in Sweden
Holocaust Memorial in Sweden
Cemetery in Sweden
Tombstone of Deborah Knicker in Sweden, sister of Roman Kent, the JFR's long-time president who passed away in May 2021
Brick Factory in Denmark
Brick Factory where Jews were hidden in Denmark
Brick Factory building where Jews were hidden in Denmark
Brick Factory where Jews were hidden in Denmark
Brick Factory where Jews were hidden in Denmark
Walking the path from the Brick Factory to the shore
View of Sweden from the shore in Denmark
Dr. Steven Field on the Danish coast
Ryvangen Memorial Park (Mindelunden)
Ground where a pistol firing squad executed resistance fighters in Ryvangen Memorial Park (Mindelunden)
Copenhagen
Copenhagen
Jorgen Kieler featured at the Danish Resistance Museum
Alicia Booker at the Danish Resistance Museum
Holocaust memorial in the courtyard of the Copenhagen Synagogue
Great Synagogue in Copenhagen
Copenhagen
Church in Copenhagen
Amy McDonald and Stanlee Stahl in Copenhagen
Dr. Steven Field and Professor Therkel Straede, our Danish Holocaust scholar
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For questions or additional information
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973.736.1800
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jfr@jfr.org
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