Jewish Foundation for the Righteous

"In June, I had the privilege of attending the JFR Summer Institute ... we engaged in deep, challenging conversations about one of the darkest chapters of human history and how to teach it effectively," Lerner Fellow Hallie Leach writes in the @TribLIVE triblive.com/opinion/hallie…

Judy Schancupp recently returned from our European Seminar and spoke to @wsbradio about her experience wsbradio.com/news/local/san…

#OTD July 25, 1934 Germany passed a law prohibiting Jewish doctors from practicing medicine.

We recently returned from our 2025 European Study Program where we visited the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark with 12 middle & high school teachers and Holocaust center personnel from 5 U.S. states. Read more in @bocatribune bocaratontribune.com/bocaratonnews/…

#OTD July 24, 1941 A ghetto was established in Kishinev, Romania and one week later in Bialystok, Poland.

#OTD July 23, 1944 The Soviet army liberated Majdanek

#OTD July 23, 1944 A Red Cross delegation visited the Theresienstadt ghetto/concentration camp after the Germans carefully prepared the camp and its Jewish inmates. After this visit, the Red Cross issued a favorable report on the camp.

Honoured to have this recommendation from the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous @jfrdirector @public_affairs @HoZ_Books @GeorginaCapel

“This was the most immersive experience I’ve ever had in the scholarship of the Holocaust. And that was something I was really looking for," Lerner Fellow Kerry Verrone tells @NJJN about her experience at the JFR Summer Institute. njjewishnews.timesofisrael.com/bringing-the-h…

#OTD July 22, 1942 Large-scale deportations of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka began

📚 From the JFR Library: This month, we recommend The Last Days of Budapest: The Destruction of Europe’s Most Cosmopolitan Capital in World War II by Adam LeBor. Click to read a review: jfr.org/recommended-re…

“The experience of hearing from the leading experts from all over the world who delve into this matter in such different ways, it was just a profound experience that I’ve never had before,” Betina Roher told @LansReporter abt our Summer Institute thereporteronline.com/2025/07/15/abi…

#OTD July 19, 1941 A ghetto was established in the city of Minsk, Belorussia

#OTD July 19, 1942 Himmler ordered the mass deportation of Jews in Poland to death camps, code-named "Operation Reinhard"

#OTD July 18, 1925 Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf was published

“I’m returning to my classroom with a renewed sense of purpose and powerful tools to help students think critically about the Holocaust, history, justice and antisemitism," Mary Beth Ely tells @CleveJN about her experience at our Summer Institute. clevelandjewishnews.com/jns/renewed-se…

"They were able to present new information in ways that enabled me to make deeper connections between events, laws, policies & propaganda relating to the Holocaust," Chrissy Hoerlein told @JNS_org about our Summer Institute jns.org/renewed-sense-…

We asked Lerner Fellow Rani Wright what motivates her to teach her students about the Holocaust. Her answer is more important than ever before

#OTD July 16, 1936 The first group of German Roma and Sinti is arrested and deported to Dachau concentration camp.

Please join us in wishing a happy birthday #JFRRescuer Maria M., who is turning 91 today! 🎂🎉