Integrating Formerly Homeless Seniors into Affordable Housing
This toolkit provides concrete, trauma-informed steps for supporting older adults who may not have lived in formal housing for many years.
High school students learn of Holocaust survivor’s stories
A student from Yeshivah of Flatbush Joel Braverman High School is learning about the Holocaust through the eyes of a 95-year-old survivor.
The Neediest Cases Fund: A Daughter’s Death Leaves a Mother Struggling
Never abandon: Increase funding for the City Council’s Holocaust Survivors Initiative
New York City is home to nearly 45,000 holocaust survivors, almost half of whom live at or below the poverty line.
Students pay tribute to Holocaust victims
A group of high school students in NYC re-enact moments from the lives of Holocaust Survivors. It’s just one of more than a dozen performances from the Witness Theater Program, which brings Survivors and students together. They work for months to craft a stage production that will keep the survivors’ memories alive for future generations.
Helping Holocaust survivors with state funds
Assemblywoman Nily Rozic joined state Sen. Toby Ann Stavisky in Flushing on Tuesday to present Selfhelp Community Services with a $50,000 check in state funding she recently secured to benefit Holocaust survivors.
In New York Living Rooms, Survivors Share Memories of the Holocaust
Zikaron BaSalon events have spread worldwide since first being held in Israel in 2010. These intimate talks allow millennials to reflect on the Shoah while the world continues noisily outside their apartments
Brooklyn Holocaust survivors share stories of survival on remembrance day
Keeping the Promise: 108 Year Old Holocaust Survivor Receives Burial in Israel
On Sunday, March 25, 2018 longtime Brooklyn resident, and a client of Selfhelp Community Services’ Holocaust Survivor Program, Mr. Szjya “Steve” Pulwers passed away at 108 years old. He made his wish known to be buried in Israel, and Selfhelp Community Services is providing a grant to assist Mr. Pulwers’s family honor this request.
