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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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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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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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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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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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Unit 5 Lesson 1
The Ghettos in the East
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Jews in the Nazi Grip
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The Ghettos in the East
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Western Europe: Jews in the Nazi Grip
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