30 MIDDLE & HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATORS FROM 8 U.S. STATES, CROATIA, HUNGARY & POLAND RECEIVE COVETED LERNER FELLOWSHIPS

Swansea High Schools’ own Jon-Laurent Lavoiser was selected by the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous as a 2015 Lerner Fellow. Lavoiser had gone to the Summer Institute at Columbia University, a high-level intensive academic seminar in which 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.