Holocaust Survivors

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  ICEJ Homecare Inspires Joy, Brightens Days for Lonely in Israel

  Homecare is a central part of the Christian Embassy’s founding mandate in 1980 to “Comfort, comfort My people” (Isaiah 40:1).

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  10 Quotes about the Holocaust + One Survivor’s Story (Video)

  Today is Holocaust Memorial Day, the designated date to remember the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and other victims of Nazi persecution.

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  Haifa Home Team Caring for Holocaust Survivors during War

  Amid the intense conflict in northern Israel, the ICEJ’s Haifa Home for Holocaust Survivors continues to provide vital care and support to its elderly residents—many of whom bear the deep scars of surviving the horrors of previous wars.

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  Caring for the Elderly and Holocaust Survivors in Battered Eshkol Region

  An ICEJ team recently visited the Eshkol Community Center and was touched to see the resilience of the locals and staff. The Center’s lobby displays banners honoring those who lost their lives or were taken hostage, and paintings by local residents still hang on the walls from Sukkot 2023, just before the October 7 massacre, as no one has the heart to take them down.

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  “Miss Holocaust Survivor” Film Wins Prestigious Prize in Germany

  A documentary featuring several residents of the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem’s special Home for Holocaust Survivors in Haifa recently won a prestigious prize for filmmaking in Germany.

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  ICEJ Provides Help Holocaust Survivors Need

  Since the atrocities of October 7, the ICEJ has taken key steps to better secure the Haifa Home residents. We have added above-ground bomb shelters, including a new safe room just off the community dining hall.

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  Family Update from the ICEJ’s Home for Holocaust Survivors

  For the elderly residents of the ICEJ’s Home for Holocaust Survivors in Haifa, we provide a warm and welcoming community that feels more like family than a retirement home.

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  Safe Room Construction, and Other War Preparations at Haifa Home

  The ICEJ is currently constructing a safe room and making other war preparations in our newest apartment building at the Home for Holocaust Survivors in Haifa.

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  Christians Worldwide Stand with Israel on Yom Hashoah

  In early May, Israel observed Yom HaShoah—its annual Holocaust Remembrance Day that commemorates the lives of the 6 million Jews who perished in the Holocaust between 1933 and 1945.

• Childhood in the Shadow of the Holocaust

  At age eight Manya found herself living under the shadow of the Holocaust. Her life-story has led her to the ICEJ Haifa Home for Holocaust Survivor where we are both proud and determined to preserve her story.

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  Haifa Home Prepares for War, Renovates Dining Room

  The ICEJ’s Home for Holocaust Survivors in Haifa is renovating its dining room and preparing residents in case the war in Gaza escalates into a major conflict with Hezbollah in the north.

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  Keeping Holocaust Survivors’ Stories Alive

  International Holocaust Memorial Day was marked on January 25, 2024, in the Haifa Home in the presence of consuls and ambassadors from many nations to show their support of the Jewish people.