News from the 19th Floor – At the JFR – September 2024
News from the 19th Floor
JEWISH NEW YEAR ECARDS
Usher in the New Year while at the same time supporting the work of The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous by sending a JFR eCard. Click here to schedule your eCards now! Rosh Hashanah starts Wednesday night, October 2, 2024.
RESCUER AWARDS WERE SENT IN JULY
In July, awards were sent to each JFR-supported rescuer. We would like to share some of the photos and notes we received – click here to see them. The rescuers thank you for remembering them and for making their lives easier with the financial help they receive from the JFR.
“HOW WAS IT POSSIBLE? A HOLOCAUST CURRICULUM FOR AND BY TEACHERS™” PILOTS IN PALM BEACH COUNTY™
For the past year, Kimberly Coombs, (Lerner Fellow 2022) Program Planner of Holocaust Studies (K-12), Palm Beach County School District and inSIGHT Through Education, one of JFR’s Holocaust Centers of Excellence located in Palm Beach County, has been working with the JFR on our new online program, How Was it Possible? A Holocaust Curriculum For and By Teachers™. On Wednesday, August 7, 2024, Kimberly and Stanlee presented JFR’s new online program at a Symposium for Social Studies Teachers in Palm Beach County, FL. Four teachers from Palm Beach County School District worked on developing the curriculum. These Lerner Fellow are Tawny Anderson (who is now retired), Maureen Carter, Marie-Amalie Farris (who is retired) and Bradd Weinberg.
The JFR is indebted to Kimberly Coombs and Kelly Warsaw, President & CEO of inSIGHT Through Education, for their support of the curriculum and for their efforts in making the curriculum available for Palm Beach County educators.
TEACHER INTRODUCTION PROGRAMS FOR “HOW WAS IT POSSIBLE? A HOLOCAUST CURRICULUM FOR AND BY TEACHERS™”
Mindy Walker and Amy McDonald presented How Was it Possible? A Holocaust Curriculum For and By Teachers™ on in August at a two-day district-wide professional development for Tuscaloosa County Schools (Alabama). Mindy and Amy are Lerner Fellows and both educators worked on developing the curriculum. Mindy prepared lessons 2.3 and 4.1 and Amy prepared lesson 5.3, 6.2, and 8.1
Amy also presented the curriculum at the Alabama History Institute in Birmingham on June 25-27.
On September 25, 2024, Stanlee Stahl will be presenting the curriculum at a program offered by the Holocaust Education Resource Council in Tallahassee, FL. Click here for information on the program.
EXPLORING JFR DOCUMENTARIES AND RESCUER STORIES
If you have not already done so, please explore the JFR’s rescuer section on our website by clicking on the following links.
The rescuer section (click here) contains more than 175 individual stories of rescue.
In the documentary section (click here) you will find award-winning documentaries of rescue stories.
The documentaries run between 11 and 20 minutes.
STAY CONNECTED
Stay connected with the JFR through our Facebook page at The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, follow us on X @JFRDirector, and visit us on Instagram @ jfr_photos.
