Search
close
MENU
CLOSE MENU
Search
HWIP Login
Dashboard
DONATE
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.
Stories of Rescue
Rescuer Support Program
Documentaries
Haggadah Supplements
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.
Learn More
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
Seminars & Institutes
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.
Learn more
How Was it Possible
Documentaries
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.
About the JFR
Press Room
Financial Information
FAQ
Contact Us
Get in Touch
The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous
80 Main Street, Suite 380
West Orange, NJ 07052
(973) 736–1800
2026 European Study Program
Dr. Anna Bando, Chair Emeritus of the Polish Society for the Righteous and Stanlee Stahl
Dr. Anna Bando, Chair Emeritus of the Polish Society for the Righteous
Stanlee Stahl with Dr. Mikolajkow, Dr. Bando, and Mrs. Danuta Mikolajkow
Meeting with Secretary of State, Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, at the Polish Foreign Ministry
Meeting with Secretary of State, Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, at the Polish Foreign Ministry
Grave of Irena Sendler, Catholic Cemetery Warsaw
Grave of Marek Edelman, Jewish Cemetery Warsaw
Saying Kaddish at Irena Sendler's grave
DInner in Warsaw
Robert Jan van Pelt lecturing in Warsaw
Jan Karski bench in Warsaw
POLIN
Jewish Cemetery in Warsaw
Warsaw
POLIN
Tykocin, Poland
Synagogue in Tykocin
Treblinka
Robert Jan van Pelt lecturing, Treblinka
A memorial at the burial site for the Jews murdered at Chelmno, Rzuchow Forest
Memorial at the Rzuchow forest - burial site for the Jews killed in Chelmno
Memorial at the Rzuchow forest - burial site for the Jews killed in Chelmno
Memorial for the victims of the Lodz ghetto
Lodz
Survivor Park, Lodz, Poland - Memorial to Roman Kent and his family
The group at Roman Kent's memorial tree, Survivor Park, Lodz
Jewish Cemetery, Lodz
Jewish Cemetery, Lodz
Celebrating Chuck Hagy's birthday on July 9, 2026
Radegast Station, deportation place for Lodz Jews
Radegast Station, deportation place for Lodz Jews
Radegast Station, deportation place for Lodz Jews
Radegast Station, deportation place for Lodz Jews
Radegast Station, deportation place for Lodz Jews
Auschwitz
Auschwitz
Auschwitz
Shoes from Jews deported to Auschwitz
Suitcases from Jews deported to Auschwitz
Eye glasses from Jews deported to Auschwitz
Robert Jan van Pelt lecturing in Oswiecim
Pawel Sawiciki, from the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and Memorial, lecturing in Auschwitz
Block 10 in Auschwitz I where medical experiments took place
Birkenau
Ruins of Crematorium at Birkenau
Birkenau
Pawel Sawiciki lecturing, Central Sauna, Birkenau
Birkenau
Birkenau
Saying Kaddish, Birkenau
Birkenau
Birkenau
Alte Judenrampe, BIrkenau
Exhibit, Central Sauna, Birkenau
Birkenau
Barrack in Birkenau
Birkenau
Birkenau
Birkenau
Krakow
Kazimierz, Jewish Quarter in Krakow
Robert Jan van Pelt lecturing in Krakow
Kazimierz, Jewish Quarter in Krakow
Remaining section of Krakow ghetto wall
Chuck Hagy and Robert Jan van Pelt in Krakow
Contact Us
For questions or additional information
PHONE
973.736.1800
Email
jfr@jfr.org
.svg)
