Holocaust Survivor Adopts You Program

As our young co-workers have been delivering many of the food packs and listening to the personal testimonies of survivors they have been moved to tears.  Seeing and hearing survivors describe their experiences makes history come alive. Our workers are experiencing identification with the survivors and discover first hand what actually took place during the Holocaust. They have had opportunity to ask deep questions as historical events intertwined with personal experiences. 

Unfortunately, Holocaust survivors are aging and dying and the possibility of live eyewitness accounts are becoming less available and will not exist for future generations. In order to retain these personal testimonies and their memories, Helping Hand Coalition has begun a new initiative “A Survivor Adopting YOU program”. That’s right getting a Survivor to adopt you! Becoming part of their family, keeping their story alive, what happened to them really happened and we need to keep those stories alive for future generations, passing them onto our children and grandchildren.

  
We have
several thousand
Holocaust Survivors
READY
to Adopt YOU

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The adoption story
of the survivors

COMMING SOON
   
I WANT TO ADOPT
A
HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR

This program can be implemented several ways:

One is by inviting a survivor for a holiday with you, your family or group. You would have time to spend with them and become familiar with every detail of their experience before, during and after the Holocaust. You could even become the spokesperson for the survivor now and for years to come, keeping their memory and story alive.
This would also give you an opportunity to let your family, town, fellowship, congregation, group, school see through the eyes of the survivor. This experience would become part of your own history as well as the fabric of your family, town, fellowship, congregation, group, school. You will be able to hear a first hand testimony on the step-by-step process the survivor experienced from being part of the society, to being separated and shunned, to being evicted and taken to concentration camps and eventually immigrating to start a new life. You would be taking a journey through the survivor’s life and therefore represent them to future generations.

Some people have indicated their commitment and are even prepared to add the survivors name to their own legally. What is involved?

  • What are you prepared to commit yourself to?
  • This is no light matter it is for life.
  • Being adopted by a survivor and becoming part of their family.
  • Becoming responsible for them, they would become like your mother or father, grandmother or grandfather.
  • The commitment is to look after them till they die.
  • Helping to pay their bills.
  • Paying for their medical needs.
  • If you find this be too great a cost for you individually, a group, congregation, fellowship, or company may want to share in the expenses together.