News from the 19th Floor – Alfred Lerner Fellows – November 2017

News from the 19th Floor

Professor Peter Hayes at the conference.

Lucjia Koch, Director Education POLIN and Stanlee

Lucjia Koch, Director of Education POLIN, and Stanlee Stahl.

Agnieszka, from State Musuem at Auschwitz-Birkenau and Stanlee

Agnieszka Juskowiak-Sawicka, from the State Musuem at Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Stanlee Stahl.

Stanlee and Frank, Cultural Affairs Officer, US Embassy Warsaw

Stanlee Stahl and Frank Finver, Cultural Affairs Officer, US Embassy Warsaw.

“Teaching About Genocide”

The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous (JFR) was one of the co-sponsors of a major teacher seminar held at POLIN, the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, October 8 and 9, 2017, in Warsaw, Poland. The program, organized by the education department of POLIN, attracted some 300 teachers from across Poland. The focus of the seminar was teaching the Holocaust.

The JFR brought Professor Emeritus Peter Hayes, from Northwestern University, to give the keynote lecture on Monday, October 9, 2017. Professor Hayes presented on “New Answers to Old Questions about the Holocaust”.

Stanlee Stahl, Professor Peter Hayes, and Beata Pisarczyk-Zabiciel, JFR Alfred Lerner Fellow 2013.

A number of Alfred Lerner Fellows from Poland attended the program. It was great to reconnect!

Grazyna Dawidowicz, JFR Alfred Lerner Fellow 2009, Wojciech Dutka, JFR Alfred Lerner Fellow 2014, and Stanlee Stahl.

Giving Tuesday

As we give thanks this year, let us remember to thank and take care of the men and women who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust – non-Jews who refused to be passive in the face of the evil they witnessed. Now elderly and in financial need, help us to make their Christmas holiday a little brighter. Each December the JFR raises funds to send a special award to our rescuers for the purchase of food at Christmas. Our goal this year is $25,000 – help us reach this goal. Please consider making a gift. Click here to donate now.

One of the posters included in the Spanish version of the Poster Set.

Poster Set on Rescue – Spanish Edition

The JFR Poster Set on Rescue: Traits that Transcend will be available in Spanish in early 2018. The Poster Set, in English, is available and can be purchased through the JFR website. Click here.

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