2022 AJCF Gala
Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation’s 2022 Gala Share This Post Honoring Champions of Justice and Humanity On June 2nd, 2022, the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation (AJCF) held its annual Gala at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City. AJCF presented its inaugural “Award for Fighting Hatred” to former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger […]
2024 AJCF Gala
2023 AJCF Gala
Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation’s 2023 Gala Share This Post Creating Allies & Advocates, Now & for the Future On June 1st, 2023, the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation (AJCF) held its annual Gala at Pier 60, Chelsea Piers in New York City. The event united an esteemed group of honorees, supporters, and Holocaust survivors to celebrate […]
Preparing Ambassadors to Teach About the Holocaust
empowerING and creatING ambassadors for Holocaust education. This innovative year-long project is designed to empower young Europeans (aged 17-25) with the knowledge and tools to educate others about the Holocaust. English-speaking participants from Austria, Germany, and Poland undergo preparatory training, engage in peer learning, and visit key Holocaust sites in an immersive 8-day visit to […]
Szymon Kluger & the Kluger Family Home
TOMASZ KUNCEWICZ, AJCF DIRECTOR RECEIVES 2022 IRENA SENDLER MEMORIAL AWARD
Tomasz Kuncewicz, AJCF Director, named as the 2022 Irena Sendler Memorial Award Recipient Under his visionary leadership since September 2000, the AJCF has made exceptional progress in preserving Jewish memory and material heritage in Oświęcim, the town in closest proximity to Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Nazi extermination site where European Jews, other persecuted minority groups, and POWs […]
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER visits ajcf
Arnold Schwarzenegger Joins Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation (AJCF) For Somber Visit To Death Camps While visiting the only remaining synagogue near Auschwitz (at AJCF’s center), Schwarzenegger remarked: “Simon and I were both born in Austria, he in a refugee camp after his parents survived Auschwitz, and I as the son of a man who fought […]
polish anti-discrimination workshops
Behind us are three intensive days during which 3 out of 6 training sessions on countering discrimination for public officials were held, with a total of 65 participants. Among the represented institutions were, among others: education boards, city and regional offices, social assistance centers, and many more. The training sessions are funded by the ‘Citizens, […]
UKRAINIAN REFUGEE RELIEF
Since the onset of the war on Ukraine, AJCF has been working to provide aid, mostly to women and children, who were forced to escape their homeland seeking refuge in neighboring Poland: Assisting refugees to help them gain access to Poland at the both the Ukrainian and Slovak border; Setting up a Ukrainian help-desk for the newly arrived refugees […]
march of the living 2024 visits ajcf
The March of the Living, now entering its 36th year, took place in Poland on Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, May 6th, 2024. The March renewed the call of “Never Again,” a vow which was broken on October 7, when the State of Israel endured the most severe Jewish pogrom since the Holocaust, sparking an […]
