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
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 in the Nazi war as a soldier. We now show the difference one generation
In October police officers from Iceland participated in the new edition of our Understanding Evil training program about the Holocaust and combating hate crimes today. Participants studied the long history of Jewish life in Oświęcim at the Jewish Museum and toured the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial where most of the local Jews were murdered in the Holocaust.
