Program Stories

“I now live only for my daughter, Yelyzaveta. She is the one who gives me strength to carry on..."

Polina might be 90 years old. But both the memory and voice of this sweet Jewish woman living in Israel are still strong and clear.

The Fellowship is special to Fanya. For this 83-year-old Holocaust survivor, The Fellowship has become family. Fanya is grateful to be cared for, but she’s equally grateful for the chance to share her wisdom, her experience, and even handmade toys with Fellowship volunteers.

This is Yuri. Yuri, who was forgotten for decades, after the atrocities of the Holocaust first l

Katerina remembers when her small town in Ukraine had a thriving Jewish community. She remembers the synagogue. She remembers her parents when her parents were still alive. Katerina remembers those days.

“In peace I will lie down in sleep, for you alone, LORD, make me dwell in safety.” (Psalm 4:8)

Life for a Jew in Ukraine has never been easy. Dolores knows this firsthand. She’s known this for every one of her 82 years in the country’s capital, Kiev.

Born to a Jewish family between the World Wars, Raisa soon learned of wartime hardship and horror w

A Russian poet penned those words to commemorate one of the darkest days of the Holocaust. On Yom Kippur of 1941, Nazis marched more than 30,000 Jews to a ravine outside of Kiev. As the grasses rustled, the Nazis forced them to strip. And as the trees looked on, the Nazis shot them, one by one by one.

This Passover story begins not with deliverance, but with danger. Danger that a precious elderly woman named Yunona has faced nearly her entire life.

June 21, 1941, promised to be a bright summer day. But it was the last bright moment that Leonid would experience for many decades. That day, the young Jewish boy and his family fled their home in Zhitomir, Ukraine, as the Nazis invaded and began to kill the city’s Jews.

It is a challenging job to raise your child as a single mother with no support, and sometimes it can feel lonely.