Applications for the 2023 JFR Advanced Seminar are now available. The dates of the program are: January 14 – 16, 2023. The venue is the Hilton Newark Airport.

The following scholars will be presenting: Nicholas E. Coddington, Paul Hanebrink, Peter Hayes, and Jeffrey Veidlinger. The 2023 Advanced Seminar participant fee will be $425 and covers lodging for Saturday and Sunday nights.

Please submit your application as soon as possible. Application and center sign-off should be submitted by Monday, October 24, 2022. Do not send your participant fee until asked. You will be informed if you are accepted into the program. Applications will be accepted on a first come, first serve basis.

Since we do not know what January 2023 will bring with respect to COVID-19, please see below.

1. The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous (JFR) will adhere to and follow the guidelines of the State of New Jersey and the CDC as it relates to COVID-19.

2. We will give each participant their own room and the JFR will cover the single supplement for each participant for Saturday and Sunday nights.

3. If required by state or federal guidelines in effect at the time, we will have social distancing. As of now, we plan on accepting 22 participants into the program. This number does not include four JFR staff and board members.

4. If required by state or federal guidelines in effect at the time, we will ask all participants to wear masks, preferably N95, KN95, or surgical masks, not cloth.

5. We are requiring that all participants provide proof of vaccination including boosters. The JFR is requiring proof of COVID-19 vaccination for all participants and that each participant is “up to date” with respect to their COVID-19 vaccinations, to include the newly authorized bivalent vaccine booster.

If you are interested in attending, please complete your application (see link below) and email the required attachments – Holocaust unit content outline, Claims Conference Form, and COVID-19 vaccination card – to Andrew Buchanan at [email protected].

Click here for the application process and the program.

Click here for the application.

Click here for the Center Sign-off form.

Click here for the Claims Conference form.

Click here for the travel form.

For the past thirty years, the JFR has worked closely with the Polish Society for the Righteous.  This is the Rosh Hashanah wishes sent to the JFR from the Polish Society for the Righteous.

A very important holiday is approaching, in which we the Righteous want to participate.

On these festive days, we wish you good health, prosperity and success in such a responsible work for us.

We want to see you always smiling, happy and joyful.

Thank you very much.

The Board of the Polish Society of the Righteous Among the Nations

We continue to hear from rescuers.  Here is a photo of Brone from Lithuania and her great granddaughter.  Goda writes,

“I am sending you a photo with BRONE JURGILIENE.  Thank you for your support for my great grandmother. We are grateful to you ❤️”

Brone will be 99 this December.  She was recognized by Yad Vashem in 1998 and the JFR began supporting Brone in September 1998. To read Brone’s rescue story, click here.