The Brooklyn and Coney Island area is home to over 2,200 Holocaust survivors who desperately need help. For a limited time, your help can do more. Make a compassionate donation by March 15 and a generous benefactor has agreed to give $1 for every $2 you give. Just go to http://bit.ly/jccgci-yeshiva.

The elderly poor face many difficulties, but Holocaust survivors face even greater hardships.

As the Washington Post noted, “experiences during the Holocaust such as malnutrition, torture and severe … stress have had lasting effects….”

Not to mention that Holocaust survivors often lack the family structures that other elderly individuals can rely on.

Plus, experiences of imprisonment, terror, and displacement have made them especially fearful of and adverse to nursing homes.

Although the provision of social services for Holocaust survivors internationally is very generously funded by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany and other sources, these allocations are not limitless and the critical needs of the increasingly aging, infirm and disabled survivor population exceed what existing resources can support.

How you can help:

Every dollar you can spare helps the Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island provide much-needed services. In fact, compassionate donations during 2016 helped to provide:

• Almost 600,000 hours of homecare for 662 Holocaust survivors
• Close to 50,000 trips (mostly for medical treatment) for 1,415 survivors
• Over 8,700 meals – many delivered directly to homes
• And over 6,700 counseling sessions to almost 1,500 survivors (many homebound).

It’s easy to help:

Just go to http://bit.ly/jccgi-yeshiva. Every donation – no matter how small, no matter how large – (except for the very small cost of spreading the word about this critical need) will go directly to services for low-income, disabled Holocaust survivors.

We thank you in advance for your kind and compassionate generosity.

**P.S. A benefactor has committed to donate $1 for every $2 we raise. In other words, your kind donation of $18 would result in $27. We are grateful for every donation no matter the size, but the extreme need of our Holocaust survivors compels me to hope you will be as generous as you can be.