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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.
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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
2026 Medal of Honor Ceremony
Pastor Chris Edmonds and Stanlee Stahl
Pentagon Reception, Sunday Evening, March 1, 2026 - Pastor Chris and Regina Edmonds
Pentagon Reception, Sunday Evening, March 1, 2026 - The Edmonds Family
Pentagon Reception, Sunday Evening, March 1, 2026 - Stanlee Stahl, Pastor Edmonds, and Kelly Warsaw, Board President and CEO of inSight Through Education
Pentagon Reception, Sunday Evening, March 1, 2026 - Kelly Warsaw and Stanlee Stahl
Pentagon Reception, Sunday Evening, March 1, 2026 - Stanlee Stahl and General Brady, Inspector General of the U.S. Army
Pentagon Reception, Sunday Evening, March 1, 2026 - Kelly Warsaw and Stanlee Stahl with U.S. Service Members
White House Ceremony, Monday, March 2, 2026 - Pastor Chris Edmonds receiving the Medal of Honor on behalf of his father from President Trump (U.S. Army photo by Christopher Kaufmann)
White House Ceremony, Monday, March 2, 2026 - Senator Tom Cotton and Stanlee Stahl
White House Ceremony, Monday, March 2, 2026 -
White House Ceremony, Monday, March 2, 2026 - Stanlee Stahl and Chaplain Major General William Green, Jr., U.S. Army Chief of Chaplains
White House Ceremony, Monday, March 2, 2026 - Joanne Stern Fleeter and Jeffrey Stern, children of Jewish POW Paul Stern who was saved by Master Sgt. Roddie
White House Ceremony, Monday, March 2, 2026 - Capain Karol Cierpica and his family
White House Ceremony, Monday, March 2, 2026 - Captain Cierpica speaking at the White House
White House Ceremony, Monday, March 2, 2026 - Terry P. Richardson and friend Betty
White House Ceremony, Monday, March 2, 2026 - Bob Ollis with his service dog, Neville
Pentagon Ceremony, Tuesday, March 3, 2026
Pentagon Ceremony, Tuesday, March 3, 2026 - Pastor Chris Edmonds
Pentagon Ceremony, Tuesday, March 3, 2026 - Pastor Chris Edmonds
Pentagon Ceremony, Tuesday, March 3, 2026
Pentagon Ceremony, Tuesday, March 3, 2026 - General Randy George, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, Stanlee Stahl, Jerry Warsaw, and Michael Weimer, Sgt. Major of the U.S. Army
Pentagon Ceremony, Tuesday, March 3, 2026 - Jeffrey Stern, Kelly Warsaw, and Joanne Stern Fleeter
Master Sgt. Roddie Emonds, Medal of Honor Recipient
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973.736.1800
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jfr@jfr.org
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