(Jewish Group) Tens of 1000s of Holocaust survivors live in poverty. This foundation wants to help
The letter that Marcy Gringlas remembers best came from a Jewish man living in California’s Silicon Valley. An elderly Holocaust survivor, he was living in the heart of American innovation and wealth. But his teeth had deteriorated to the point where he could no longer eat, yet he could not afford to do anything about it.
“He was traumatized about his teeth,” Gringlas told the Forward. “He didn’t want to have a doctor look at them or anything.”
Almost 80 years after the end of World War II, there are an estimated 195,000 survivors still alive. According to Jewish Federations, around 80,000 of those individuals live in the United States, and 25,000 of them live, like the man in Silicon Valley, below the poverty line.
Gringlas and her husband are the founders of Seed the Dream, a family foundation based in Philadelphia that has primarily worked on educational initiatives in the United States and Israel. In 2019, however, they partnered with KAVOD, a nonprofit that works to meet the needs of economically disadvantaged Holocaust survivors, to launch KAVOD Survivors of the Holocaust Emergency Fund (SHEF). The initiative had two goals: to raise awareness of the little-discussed needs of thousands of Holocaust survivors, and to provide assistance to them.
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This makes me sad and angry!
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