Holocaust & Tolerance

Taking an active role in keeping the memory and the lessons of the Holocaust alive, a number of Northern California organizations provide educational programs and offer support to survivors and their families.

East Bay

Holocaust Survivor Services, East Bay

Providing services and assistance for 280 Holocaust survivors in Alameda and Contra Costa counties, including home care, care management, volunteers, counseling, social groups, and restitution assistance.

http://www.jfcs-eastbay.org/holocaust-survivor-services/

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Kindertransport Association

Organizes annual reunions and events for children who escaped the Holocaust in 1938 and 1939 by being sent on their own to Great Britain.

http://www.kindertransport.org

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North Bay

Alliance for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide

Co-sponsors Sonoma State U. Holocaust and Genocide Lecture Series; supports SSU Center for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide; coordinates school presentations by survivors and descendants of the Holocaust.

http://www.sonoma.edu/holocaust/alliance/

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Center for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide

Sponsors public Holocaust lectures each spring; develops Holocaust resource materials; provides Holocaust education in collaboration with the Alliance for the Study of the Holocaust.

http://www.sonoma.edu/holocaust

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Generation to Generation

Nonprofit organization for sons and daughters of Holocaust survivors. Support network, email list. Serves Northern California.

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Bay Area

Bay Area Hidden Children

A group for those who were hidden children during the Holocaust. Meets regularly at members' homes.

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Peninsula

Holocaust Survivor Services, Silicon Valley

Reparations claims assistance, emergency services including food assistance, case management, home care, medical assistance, home visits and wellness services. Services available in English, Russian and Hebrew.

http://www.jfssv.org/holocaust-survivors-support.html

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Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project

Features taped testimonies and transcripts of concentration camp survivors, ghetto survivors, liberators, Shanghai survivors, and people surviving in hiding, now living in San Mateo County. By appt.

http://www.historysmc.org

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San Francisco

Holocaust Memorial

Created by sculptor George Segal to memorialize the Holocaust. Represents a survivor standing in front of a tragic scene in a concentration camp. Open daily. Entrance at Clement and 34th Ave.

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Holocaust Survivor Services

Assistance with reparations; care management; social activities, including the weekly Café by the Bay. Transportation; comprehensive senior services; and financial and practical assistance for survivors and their families.

http://www.jfcs.org/find-help/seniors/holocaust-survivor-services

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Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation

Distributes innovative curricula about the Jewish partisan experience to teachers and students, sharing inspiration of heroic resistance against tyranny with educational and cultural organizations.

http://www.jewishpartisans.org

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JFCS Holocaust Center

Northern California resource for Holocaust education. Tauber Library, archives, oral history collection and artifacts, survivor speakers bureau, teacher training, student programs, Holocaust remembrance.

http://www.jfcsholocaustcenter.org

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