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JFCS Holocaust Center

S.F. Mayor Daniel Lurie gave the keynote address at the city's Yom HaShoah commemoration at the JCCSF. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inHolocaust Remembrance Day

How a Nazi bookstore led to S.F.’s Yom HaShoah observance and the ‘courage to act’

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi April 14, 2026April 14, 2026

San Francisco’s Jewish community held its first Yom HaShoah ceremony on May 3, 1978, just one short and painful year after the opening of a Nazi bookstore across from a […]

Future building for the JFCS Holocaust Center.
Posted inLocal Voice

Teach Jewish history in California classrooms, and you change the world

Anita Friedman (Courtesy  JFCS) by Anita Friedman October 29, 2025October 29, 2025
Tauba Weiss (left) sits with Jewish Family and Children's Services executive director Anita Friedman at a Yom HaShoah community commemoration in San Francisco in the 2010s. (Courtesy JFCS Holocaust Center)
Posted inObituaries

Tauba Weiss, Holocaust survivor and local activist, dies at 100

by Sue Fishkoff June 20, 2025June 20, 2025
Pictures of banners  supporting Kanye West's comments about Jews went viral after members of the Goyim Defense League hate group dropped them from an overpass in Los Angeles, Oct. 22, 2022. (Screenshot from Twitter)
Posted inLocal Voice

Kanye West’s ‘Heil Hitler’ song turns hate into a hook

Morgan Blum Schneider, the director of the JFCS Holocaust Center, a program of Jewish Family
and Children’s Services. (Courtesy) by Morgan Blum Schneider May 14, 2025May 14, 2025
Two women light memorial candles
Posted inHistory

Lone protester interrupts Holocaust remembrance event in S.F.

Valerie Demicheva by Valerie Demicheva January 27, 2024January 29, 2024
Holocaust Memorial at the California Legion of Honor in San Francisco (Photo/Library of Congress-Carol M. Highsmith)
Posted inNews

San Francisco to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day

by J. Staff January 26, 2023January 26, 2023
Lori, a Holocaust survivor from the JFCS Holocaust Center speakers' bureau, addresses students in March 2019. (Photo/Trish Tunney)
Posted inEducation

California earmarks $1.9M for Holocaust and genocide education

by Ryan Torok April 18, 2022April 19, 2022

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