The Next Chapter enables high school youth to develop profound connections to the Holocaust. By participating in the program, students are awarded 40 hours of community service and create a special relationship with a local survivor.

At monthly meetings, students will learn how to:

• Interview Holocaust survivors and document their oral histories in a written essay.
• Study the history of the Holocaust and explore the current Jewish cultural renaissance in Poland.
• Time commitment: Students will meet in one seminar a month from December through April, and connect with the survivor they have been matched with three times throughout the semester.

Applications are due November 1, 2012.

The project is a partnership of JFCS and  the Taube Foundation for Jewish Life & Culture and its Jewish Heritage Initiative in Poland. Some of the research was gathered from the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Poland and from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center.

Survivor Stories

You can access the essays written in 2012 by clicking on the names of the survivors listed here. The research on the towns and countries of their birthplaces is also linked.

Survivor Lenci Farkas
Essay by Reyna McKinnon
Kralovo Nad Tisou (pdf), Czechoslovakia (pdf)

Survivor Abram Geldman
Essay by Adi Alouf
Lublin (pdf), Poland (pdf)

Survivor Warren Hirsch
Essay by Harriet Cuttler
Mannheim (pdf), Germany (pdf)

Survivor Bill Kay
Essay by Haley Weinstein
Pultusk (pdf), Poland (pdf)

Survivor Hedy Krasnobrod
Essay by Brenda Gonzalez
Vienna (pdf), Austria (pdf)

Survivor Lily Robinson
Essay by Jim Issel
Sofia (pdf), Bulgaria (pdf)

Survivor Henry Sattler
Essay by Asher Kalman
Krakow (pdf), Poland (pdf)

Survivor Lori Shearn
Essay by Rachael Katz
Vienna (pdf), Austria (pdf)

Survivor Elizabeth Weidenbach
Essay by Sophie Rinkoff-Murland
Augsburg (pdf), Germany (pdf)

Read previous year's survivor stories here. 
 

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