Jewish Foundation for the Righteous

March 22, 1933 Just a few weeks after Adolph Hitler's appointment, the first prisoners were brought to Dachau concentration camp. More than 30,000 prisoners had been killed in executions, medical experiments, and death marches by the time the camp was liberated in April 1945

Please join us in wishing a happy birthday to #JFRrescuer Apolina Z. from Poland who is turning 92 today! 🎂🎉

Please join us in wishing a happy birthday to #JFRrescuer Rudolf K. from Poland who is turning 97 today! 🎂🎉

Please join us in wishing a happy birthday to #JFRrescuer Zofia B. from Poland who is turning 102 today! 🎂🎉

Righteous among the nations

Righteous among the nations

Women of Courage: Irena Senderska-Rzonca Dr Elias Bander & his family were saved during the #Holocaust by his Christian patients. The Krzysztalowski family, including their daughter Irena, hid him & his family until the Soviet army liberated their town jfr.org/rescuer/the-kr…

March 17, 1942 Belzec death camp began operating, murdering Jews, Poles, Roma & Soviet POWs w/ carbon monoxide gas. Over 1 mil. people were killed at the Operation Reinhard camps. 📷: Prisoners awaiting instructions in Belzec

STORY OF RESCUE: Jozsef Satori was living with his family in Budapest, Hungary in March of 1944 during the German occupation as they were rounding up Jews and deporting them to Auschwitz. The Satoris saved more than 10 Jews from deportation jfr.org/rescuer/satori… #JFRrescuer

March 13-14, 1943 The Krakow Ghetto was liquidated and its inhabitants who were not shot on site, were sent to #Auschwitz

March 13, 1943 German troops entered Austria and Hitler announced the annexation of Austria to Germany, known as the “Anschluss” and all anti-Jewish decrees were implemented 📷: Hitler receiving an ovation following the announcement of the "Anschluss"

Please join us in wishing a happy birthday to #JFRrescuer Bronislava K. from Belarus who is turning 94 today! 🎂🎉

March 11, 1946 The British arrested former Auschwitz commander Rudolf Höss. The Nazi leader testified at the Nuremberg Trials and was later tried in Warsaw, found guilty, and hanged at Auschwitz 📷: Rudolf Höss, commandant of Auschwitz @AuschwitzMuseum

Last week, we had the honor of joining @ChrisWEdmonds & the Edmonds family as @POTUS awarded the Medal of Honor to U.S. Army Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds, who saved roughly 200 Jewish American soldiers from certain death during World War II

Women of Courage: Maria Farkas When the Germans occupied Hungary in March 1944, Maria & her brother (pic. ⬇️) along w/ their parents loaned her schoolmate's family their own identity documents & later hid 5 Jews until the city was liberated in Jan 1945 jfr.org/rescuer/farkas…

Women of Courage: Anna Stupnicka Bando Janina Stupnicka had access to the Warsaw ghetto because of her job managing residential buildings there. She would bring her 12 yr old daughter Anna to help smuggle in food. They also hid several Jews jfr.org/rescuer/stupni…

March 7, 1936 Germany re-militarized the Rhineland in violation of the Treaty of Versailles

Please join us in wishing a happy birthday to #JFRrescuer Jozef J. from Poland who is turning 95 today! 🎂🎉

Read more about Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds receiving the Medal of Honor posthumously in @ArmyTimes armytimes.com/news/your-mili…

Women of Courage: Magdalena Maria Ana Stroe Kolozsvar- In the spring of 1944, when the Jews were ordered into the ghetto, Hanna Hamburg went to say goodbye to Magdalena who gave Hanna her own identity documents which enabled Hanna to escape. jfr.org/rescuer/stroe-…