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RONALD S. LAUDER FOUNDATION SUPPORTED PROJECTS AUSTRIA THE LAUDER CHABAD
SCHOOL AND KINDERGARTEN THE SEPHARDIC
SYNAGOGUE AND COMMUNITY CENTER THE RONALD S.
LAUDER FOUNDATION EDUCATOR'S NETWORK LAUDER VIENNA
BUSINESS SCHOOL BELARUS THE LAUDER MINSK
KINDERGARTEN THE LAUDER SCHNEOR
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOL THE LAUDER LECH
LECHA YOUTH CENTER BULGARIA THE JEWISH SCHOOL
IN SOFIA THE LAUDER-ORT
TECHNICAL TRAINING CENTER AT THE JEWISH SCHOOL CROATIA CZECH REPUBLIC THE LAUDER PRAGUE
KINDERGARTEN THE LAUDER GUR
ARYEH JEWISH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL
THE LAUDER ORT
TECHNICAL TRAINING CENTER AT THE JEWISH SCHOOL THE EDUCATIONAL
AND CULTURAL CENTER AT THE JEWISH MUSEUM IN PRAGUE ESTONIA TALLINN JEWISH
SCHOOL GERMANY THE LAUDER JUDISCHES
LEHRHAUS THE LAUDER BEIT
MIDRASH THE LAUDER JEWISH
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT THE LAUDER SAXONY
YOUTH PROJECT THE RONALD S.
LAUDER KINDERGARTEN OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF HAMBURG THE LAUDER EDUCATIONAL
CENTER FOR NORTHERN GERMANY THE LAUDER MIDRASHA THE LAUDER CHOREV
EDUCATIONAL PROJECT THE LAUDER CHOREV
CENTER THE EPHRAIM
HOENLEIN GENEALOGY PROJECT THE LAUDER MORIJAH
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HUNGARY THE LAUDER JAVNE
JEWISH COMMUNITY SCHOOL AND KINDERGARTEN THE RONALD S.
LAUDER FOUNDATION/AJJDC CAMP AT SZARVAS SZOMBAT MAGAZINE LATVIA LAUDER LEIPAJA
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER LAUDER-ORT INFORMATION
AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER THE RONALD S.
LAUDER FOUNDATION/AJJDC CAMP AT SZARVAS LITHUANIA THE JEWISH KINDERGARTEN THE SHOLOM ALEICHEM
JEWISH DAY SCHOOL THE RONALD S.
LAUDER FOUNDATION/AJJDC CAMP AT SZARVAS MOLDOVA LAUDER-ORT TECHNICAL
TRAINING CENTER AT THE JEWISH SCHOOL THE HEBREW ACADEMY
OF MOLDOVA POLAND THE LAUDER MORASHA
KINDERGARTEN THE LAUDER MORASHA
PRIMARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOLS THE RONALD S.
LAUDER FOUNDATION GENEALOGY PROJECT AT THE JEWISH HISTORICAL INSTITUTE PARDES LAUDER
(CONTINUOUS JEWISH EDUCATIONAL PROJECT) WEEKLY TORAH
NEWSLETTER, YESHIVA KRAKOW SUNDAY HEBREW
SCHOOL AND KINDERGARTEN LAUDER-ETZ CHAIM
SCHOOL LAUDER AFTER-SCHOOL
PROGRAM THE RONALD S.
LAUDER FOUNDATION JEWISH COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTERS THE LAUDER EDUCATIONAL
RETREAT AND SUMMER CAMP THE INTERNATIONAL
AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU PRESERVATION PROJECT MIDRASZ Magazine SZTERNDLECH
Magazine KOSHER CANTEEN
- Warsaw ROMANIA THE LAUDER REUT
KINDERGARTEN AND SCHOOL THE RONALD S.
LAUDER FOUNDATION/AJJDC CAMP AT SZARVAS RUSSIA THE LAUDER
ETZ CHAIM SCHOOL THE LAUDER SHALOM
KINDERGARTEN AND SCHOOL THE LAUDER KINDERGARTEN THE LAUDER KINDERGARTEN RUSSIAN KINDERGARTEN
NETWORK THE LAUDER MAKABI
KINDERGARTEN THE RONALD S.
LAUDER FOUNDATION/AJJDC CAMP AT SZARVAS SLOVAKIA THE LAUDER GAN
MENACHEM KINDERGARTEN UKRAINE GYMNASIUM ACHEINU
LAUDER KIEV JEWISH
PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL THE LAUDER CAMP
SHUVA OFFICES: Budapest - Headquarters THE RONALD S. LAUDER FOUNDATION GENEALOGY PROJECT The Ronald S. Lauder Foundation also sponsors several projects outside the sphere of Jewish education and community development, which further honor and commemorate Poland's illustrious Jewish history. These programs draw on the greatness of the past to help our youth create a Jewish future within the context of contemporary Poland. Chief among these is The Ronald S. Lauder Foundation Genealogy Project at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw. A Lauder Foundation archivist spends his days here sifting through a treasure trove of hundreds of thousands of fragile documents: dog-eared birth certificates, torn sepia photographs, yellowed death records, carbon copies of deportation schedules, photostats of housing records, and more. By piecing together this remarkable record of Polish Jewry, family connections are re-established, genealogical histories unearthed, lost relatives found and identities traced or recovered. Requests pour in by post, fax and email from around the world, and individuals from around the globe often come in person to the Institute. Some are seeking family documents. Others simply want to find the date of death of a loved one murdered in the Holocaust in order to observe a proper Yahrzeit commemoration. Still others
visit and make shocking discoveries about who they really are; teenage
boys in ponytails and blue jeans with vague suspicions that they
have not heard the complete truth about the realities of their origins;
middle-aged men and women, their eyes streaked with tears after
hearing the death-bed confessions of parents who did not want to
take a fifty-year secret - their child's Jewish identity - to the
grave with them; and elderly Jews on crutches hoping to find the
child given away over the walls of the Warsaw ghetto.
The Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau is the universal symbol of the destruction of European Jewry. The physical remains of this site of unspeakable horror stand as a visual reminder of the atrocities of the Holocaust. Auschwitz-Birkenau is a testimony to the actuality of the crimes of the Third Reich for all succeeding generations to see and to contemplate. Yet many of the buildings, dynamited and burned by departing Germans in 1945, have also fallen victim to time and weather. In 1989 it was obvious that without intervention, these buildings, the physical proof of this authentic reminder of Nazi brutality, would disappear. To address this critical issue, in that same year, Ronald S. Lauder established within The Ronald S. Lauder Foundation the International Auschwitz-Birkenau Preservation Project, under the leadership of two prominent survivors Kalman Sultanik and Ernest Michel. In order to
assess the site and recommend appropriate conservation and stabilization
measures, The Foundation next assembled a team of expert conservators
headed by James H. Frantz, Director of the Sherman Fairchild Department
of Objects Conservation of the Metropolitan Museum of Art of N.Y.
as well as a team of restoration architects Finally, The Foundation proposed that the project become an international undertaking with the costs to be borne by the various European nations from whose lands Jews had been deported during World War II. The Polish government and the International Council of the Auschwitz Museum gave their full support to this project. Early on, an important principle of conservation emerged; namely, that measures to preserve Auschwitz-Brikenau should in no way alter the original character of the site. There was to be neither refurbishment nor embellishment. Rather the conservation plan would be designed to maintain the authenticity of the site by retaining the buildings as they were when the project began in 1989. Thanks to the indefatigable efforts of the Co-Chairmen of the Project, The Foundation is proud to report that, in an unprecedented gesture of unity, to date, 11 countries have voluntarily joined together to contribute over 28 million dollars for preservation: Germany (largest giver ), Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Greece, Holland, Luxembourg, Norway, Russia and Switzerland. Efforts to obtain additional financing from other governments are continuing. It is the hope
of The Foundation that this endeavor, in full consideration for
the sensitivity and deep feelings for this site held by many people
around the globe, will ensure that Auschwitz-Birkenau remains a
memorial and a place of learning for generations to come.
Through its support of The Jewish Heritage Program of the World Monuments Fund, The Ronald S. Lauder Foundation is the key sponsor of an effort to preserve historic Jewish sites worldwide. A major project now underway is the restoration of the magnificent Tempel Synagogue in Krakow. Tempel was built in the 1860s at the edge of Kazimierz, Krakow's legendary and colorful Jewish quarter. An impressively ornate building, it is virtually the only 19th century synagogue in Poland to survive the Holocaust intact. At the invitation of the Krakow Jewish community, The Jewish Heritage Program team has worked closely with skilled local artisans and conservators to effect a complete transformation of the building. Fully restored Tempel Synagogue will soon open its doors as a functioning house of worship and host cultural events for people of Krakow and visitors from around the world. Tempel is but one of Ten Endangered Historic Synagogues throughout Europe identified as priority sites by The Jewish Heritage Program after lengthy and exhaustive research. In urgent need of repair, these significant structures will completely disappear from the Jewish landscape without immediate intervention and financial aid. It is The Foundation's fervent hope to help them to remain proud survivors of a Jewish past.
As chairman of this program, Ronald S. Lauder presides over an effort dedicated to documenting, preserving, and restoring the many buildings and sites of historic significance to Jewish heritage worldwide. A primary restoration project of the Jewish Heritage Program is the magnificent Tempel Synagogue in Krakow, the only 19th-century synagogue to have survived virtually intact in Poland, and one of the few remaining of the thousands that existed in Poland before the Holocaust. At the invitation of the Krakow Jewish Community, the Jewish Heritage Council of the World Monuments Fund began restoration often building in 1994. Tempel is but one of Ten Endangered Historic Synagogues throughout Europe identified after lengthy and exhaustive research as priority sites by The Jewish Heritage Program Without intervention and financial aid, these significant structures would completely disappear from the Jewish landscape. The Foundation
is pleased to report that Tempel Synagogue is the fifth of the original
sites to be restored. The others are: Rabbi Shlomo Ibn Danan Synagogue
in Fez, Morocco; Pfaffenhoffen Synagogue in France; Paradesi Synagogue
in Cochin, India; and Etz Hayim Synagogue in Hania, Crete, Greece. |
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