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30 MIDDLE & HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATORS FROM 8 U.S. STATES, CROATIA, HUNGARY & POLAND RECEIVE COVETED LERNER FELLOWSHIPS
THE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS PROVIDES EDUCATORS WITH INSTRUCTION ON TEACHING HOLOCAUST EDUCATION TO THEIR STUDENTS
Sardis City’s own Farrah Hayes has been chosen by the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous to be one of 30 Lerner Fellows. As a Lerner Fellow, Hayes from Sardis High School, teachers participated in the Summer Institute, an intensive five day course at Columbia University from June 21st through June 25th where participants met with Holocaust survivors and noted scholars.
The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous was created in 1986 to provide financial assistance to non-Jews who risked their lives and often the lives of their families to shelter and rescue Jews during the Holocaust. Today, the JFR supports more than 500 aged and needy rescuers in 20 countries. The Foundation also runs an internationally lauded Holocaust education program for middle and high school teachers and Holocaust center personnel who preserve the legacy of the rescuers by teaching the history of the Holocaust
For more information visit www.JFR.org
