Rose Binder, 93, of Queens, N.Y., is homebound. She has no stores in her neighborhood, and taking an accessible taxi service makes her “very nervous,” she says. “Sometimes they come late or they don’t show up and I have to keep calling.” Even speaking on the telephone is difficult for her.
On Nonprofits, Ethics, and Doing Things Right
On the occasion of Selfhelp’s 80th anniversary, CEO Stuart Kaplan looks back at the factors that have kept Selfhelp strong during turbulent years.
On Holocaust Remembrance Day: A third of survivors in the US are poor
More than 70 years after the Holocaust ended, survivors living in the United States continue to suffer.
Some special Queens seniors put on their dancing shoes at a local community center.
Lyubov Bilik fled the only home she knew in 1941. With her mother and two older sisters, she boarded a ship from Odessa, Ukraine, and eventually wound up near the northern foothills of the Caucasus Mountains, fleeing the slaughter of Jews by the Nazis and the Romanians.
Program Helps Queens Seniors, Holocaust Survivors, Socialize with Others
Some special Queens seniors put on their dancing shoes at a local community center.
Sex, jeeps and laughter: 92-year-old Holocaust survivor offers advice on aging
Johanna Friedl survived the Holocaust. Friedl was born in Bratislava, Slovakia on June 9, 1924.
Survivor and Painter José Urbach on Performing the Holocaust
On January 10, 1945, José Urbach turned five years old. That night, his father visited him and his mother inside their barracks at the Hasag Warta concentration camp and presented two small candies to his young son.
Holocaust Survivors, Students Collaborate for “The Wisdom of Storytellers”
The best way to preserve one’s history and legacy is to teach it to youngsters. Holocaust survivors in Brooklyn have been doing just that in an intergenerational collaborative setting called Witness Theater.
Dozens of Holocaust Survivors Celebrate Pre-Passover Seder on Long Island
Dozens of men and women who survived the Holocaust celebrated a special, pre-Passover Seder Wednesday on Long Island.
Witness Theater in New York: Transforming Holocaust Survivors, High School Students and Communities Trough Therapeutic Theater
Witness Theater was conceived and initiated by Irit and Ezra Dagan, and developed and expanded by JDC-Eshel, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee’s elderly division in Israel.
