Jewish Foundation for the Righteous

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Jewish Foundation for the Righteous

@JFRDirector

The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous provides financial support to non-Jews who saved Jews during the Holocaust and teaches the history of the Holocaust

New York, NY Katılım Mart 2011
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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
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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
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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"
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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
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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
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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…
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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…
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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-…
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