Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.8, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # The Survivor Mitzvah Project Support Holocaust Survivors Today - Donate Emergency Aid to Holocaust Survivors in Eastern Europe ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Holocaust Survivors: Yefim F. - Kherson, Ukraine](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/yefim-f-kherson-ukraine-3/) - I very much appreciate what you did for me and the letter and the money. I cried when I received the money and the appreciation and the love... Now I am not in good health. I need an operation on my eyes but because I live in Ukraine this is very expensive. My pension is - [Holocaust Survivors: Anna - Kherson, Ukraine](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/anna-kherson-ukraine/) - I received your letter and everything was delivered intact. I am very grateful to you for your help... My parents, my grandfathers and grandmothers all were born in Ukraine. More than 200 years ago, my great grandparents moved to Kherson, Ukraine (a province) from Lithuania. My parents were peasants (from peasant stock). I was born - [Holocaust Survivors: Taya S. - Ivankov, Kiev Region, Ukraine](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/taya-s-ivankov-kiev-region-ukraine/) - Hello from Ukraine from Taya. Dear friends, thank you so much for the letter and for the support that you provide to me. Your money really helps me purchase necessary drugs. Recently my health turned really bad. We are all sick here and I do not even know how to live further. I want to - [Holocaust Survivors: Yefim F. - Kherson, Ukraine](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/yefim-f-kherson-ukraine-2/) - Greetings with respect --- I received your letter with the [money] for which I am very, very grateful. I am very touched by your attention and care to me. You are interested in my life and I will describe it. I was born March 2, 1918, in a very poor family. There were 6 of - [Holocaust Survivors: Yefim F. - Kherson, Ukraine](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/yefim-f-kherson-ukraine/) - Greetings... [In Ukraine] There was a time prior to 1991 when our people (children) were starting and achieving things even in our country. But nowadays the times are so tough. All the changes in the country have influenced the success of the youth in a negative way. I received your letter Jan 17th, but I - [Holocaust Survivors: Riva Moiseyevna - Irpen Kiev Region, Ukraine](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/riva-moiseyevna-irpen-kiev-region-ukraine/) - Hello. It's been a long time and I cannot write, I am so sick. I asked my granddaughter to write and thank you so much for the $25.00. I spent the money on medicine. I am 82 years old. I don't feel so good. My granddaughter lives with me and helps me. - [Holocaust Survivors: Klara Yakolevna - Kiev, Ukraine](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/klara-yakolevna-kiev-ukraine/) - I received your letter, money and photo...Thank you so much. My son was very sick and passed away in 1955. After that I had an operation because the room where I live was so cold and small. I have a difficult life... I am sorry for this letter. My writing is so bad and I - [Holocaust Survivors: Ida Samolievna - Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/ida-samolievna-dnepropetrovsk-ukraine/) - Hello my dear American friends. I am a disabled person, widow, and live alone. Thank you so much for your help. I received your letter and %10 and may G-d bless you 10 times. On the 16th of April I will be 83 years old. I was a teacher. I have 7 medals from the - [Holocaust Survivors: Larissa & Yevgenia - Lubny Poltavskaya Region - Ukraine](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/larissa-yevgenia-lubny-poltavskaya-region-ukraine/) - Hello from Belarus. Hi my friends. It is wonderful that someone far away thinks of us. My grandmother is 93 years old but she is very strong inside. She had two sons, both born deaf. The elder was my father who dies at the age of 48-a very tragic end. Why did G-d take such - [Holocaust Survivors: Yevgenia B. - Lubny, Ukraine](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/yevgenia-b-lubny-ukraine/) - We received your letter. Thank you so much for the money that you sent to us. Thank you so much for your help. You asked about my grandmother (Yevgenia B.) in the years 1939-1946. I will write what she remembers because now she has some problems with her memory. My grandmother was born August 4, - [Holocaust Survivors: Fira Isaakievna - Ivankov, Ukraine](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/fira-isaakievna-ivankov-ukraine/) - Thank you so much for the letter and for the money ($20). G-d bless you all for what you do for us. Health and happiness for everything in your lives, Fira. - [Holocaust Survivors: Yevgenia B. - Lubny, Ukraine](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/yevgenia-b-lubny-ukraine-2/) - Hello...I received you letter and thank you so much for the money and warm words. My grandmother wants to thank you a lot. We are praying for you. We are preparing for winter, we have fall of temperature and light morning frost to -5 degree (C); it's especially uncomfortable for grandmother, she comes out only - [Holocaust Survivors: Ida T. - Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/ida-t-dnepropetrovsk-ukraine/) - Hello, my dear American friends, I was glad when I received your letter ... I want to apologize for delaying my response. Now, something about me: I was born in Dnepropetrovsk in 1922. Our family was poor, father a worker, mother-homemaker. We were 5 children (4 brothers and I, the youngest sister). We lived poorly - [Holocaust Survivors: Lena C. - Kiev, Ukraine](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/lena-c-kiev-ukraine/) - Thank you for your letter...[My aunt] Masha received your letter and the money and is very thankful to you... Masha was born in Vaslikov. Before the war she finished Jewish school and went to college. Her father died before the war and her mother stayed with the children and Jenya, Masha, and Boris. During the - [Holocaust Survivors: Fima G. - Kremenchug, Ukraine](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/fima-g-kremenchug-ukraine-4/) - Greetings ... We received your letter and assistance, for which we are very grateful and appreciative. A big thank you to you. God willing, God should bless you in return in large measure.... please forgive me for the brief delay in my reply. I have been sick for a whole month. To all my ailments - [Holocaust Survivors: Aron - Popelniki Snyatin District, Ivano-Frankovsk, Ukraine](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/aron-popelniki-snyatin-district-ivano-frankovsk-ukraine/) - Respectful benefactor! There are no such words to express our thanks to you for your unselfish help. It was used to improve our health, which is the number one problem for us now. Thanks to you, we are able to cover part of our expenses for medicine. We can repay you with only one thing - [Holocaust Survivors: Aron - Popelniki, Ukraine](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/aron-popelniki-ukraine/) - My dear benefactors! From very deep of my soul I'm grateful to you for warm words in your letter, and for the financial help which is much needed to me for buying medicine after undergone operation... Now a couple words about me. I am a son of an orthodox family born in the village of - [Holocaust Survivors: Tzal G. - Korsun Cherkassy Region, Ukraine](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/tzal-g-korsun-cherkassy-region-ukraine/) - Good evening our dear ones, greetings! We received your letter and are very grateful to you. We are grieved that the war affected our family greatly. Also many relatives perished at Babi Yar and in the evacuation. I myself got through the war and was wounded twice and shell-shocked. But the most painful experience for - [Holocaust Survivors: Etta Moiseyevna - Belaya Tserkov, Ukraine](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/etta-moiseyevna-belaya-tserkov-ukraine/) - I received your letter and gift. I am infinitely grateful to you for your feelings towards me. You have become like a close relative and closest friend to me. I am always glad to receive letters from you and thank you very much for your help and for your kind heart...Here it is winter now. - [Holocaust Survivors: Tzal G. - Korsun Cherkassy Region, Ukraine](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/tzal-g-korsun-cherkassy-region-ukraine-2/) - Greetings. We received your letter. Many thanks! Your questions about the war stirred up an ocean of unfading memories of that harsh time. Yes, war-how many painful and bitter memories have been caused by this terrible word. I remember June 22, 1941, a warm summer full of promise, but suddenly on the radio they announced - [Holocaust Survivors: Rakhil D. - Kiev, Ukraine](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/rakhil-d-kiev-ukraine/) - Dear friends! I received your letter and money. Of course I am very grateful. I can't even imagine how you find the time to answer all of us. And with such warm and tender letters. There are certainly very few people such as you. Your letter for me is like a little ray of sunshine - [Holocaust Survivors: Fima G. - Kremenchug, Ukraine](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/fima-g-kremenchug-ukraine-2/) - Hello! I received your letter and received everything enclosed for which I'm very grateful to you. Let G-d repay your kindness multiple times. When I began to read your letter, the first thing that drew my attention was your words "Greetings from sunny California." Your words were very pleasant to me; here we also have - [Holocaust Survivors: Etta M. - Tserkov Kiev Region, Ukraine](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/etta-m-tserkov-kiev-region-ukraine/) - Greetings my dear friends, I received your letter and gift, for which I am infinitely grateful. You have become like my own ["rodnye"] and I always await your letters, as a gift from destiny. I wish you health and successes at work. I am glad that we have a new friend Sonia [NB: Sonia Kovitz - [Holocaust Survivors: Tzal G. - Korsun Cherkassy Region, Ukraine](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/tzal-g-korsun-cherkassy-region-ukraine-3/) - Hello, my greatly esteemed ones! No, what I actually want to write is "My dear and nice ones!" Unfortunately, the war did not spare many of our relatives. My wife and I remain here alone. Only in Tarashcha, where we were born, a nephew remains with his family. And this little town before the war - [Holocaust Survivors: Aron - Popelniki, Ukraine](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/aron-popelniki-ukraine-2/) - Dear friends! With great joy I received your letter, in fact we have waited a long time for it. In January, as soon as news from you arrived, we immediately replied without delay. Evidently as a result of unreliable work by our postal service, our letter [to you] was lost somewhere. I hope that this - [Holocaust Survivors: Fira B. - Ivankov, Ukraine](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/fira-b-ivankov-ukraine/) - Dear Much-Esteemed Friends! My son Mark brought me from Kiev your dear letter with 60 dollars. I heartfeltly thank you for your goodness, humanity, concern, and empathy. Over such a great distance you have become for me not just acquaintances, but relatives. Please forgive me for my delay in replying. It is not of my - [Holocaust Survivors: Mikhel L. - Mogilyon Podolskiy Vinnitsa Region, Ukraine](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/mikhel-l-mogilyon-podolskiy-vinnitsa-region-ukraine/) - Hello... I'm pleased to inform you that I received your letter intact - both coupon and gelt were there. Thank you very much! It was a pleasant surprise for me. I wanted to thank you and your friends who are helping Jews. I prey to God to keep you healthy and happy. I want to - [Holocaust Survivors: Abram K. - Mogilyov Podolskiy Vinnitza Region - Ukraine](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/abram-k-mogilyov-podolskiy-vinnitza-region-ukraine/) - Much esteemed [friends], ...I received your letter and that which was in it. This was for wife, my daughter, granddaughter, and me a complete surprise and the $20 gelt gift that you sent arrived at a time when it is a miracle. My gratitude to you is not just expressed in the quantity of words, - [Holocaust Survivors: Eaisa T. - Ovruch Zhitomir Region, Ukraine](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/eaisa-t-ovruch-zhitomir-region-ukraine/) - Greetings my dear and dedicated friends... In the course of our correspondence and acquaintance, you have also for me become like dear members of the family...I received your letter of July 14. Thank you, enormous thanks to you for such a good and warm letter, for your attention and care, and everything was received. May - [Holocaust Survivors: Rahil F. - Grodno, Belarus](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/rahil-f-grodno-belarus-2/) - Hello from Belarus. Thank you so much for the money. My name is Rahil Girshevna. I am very old. I received your letter and the $10. I was so surprised I could not sleep all night. I can't believe there are such nice people in the world. Thank you so much. God bless you. I - [Holocaust Survivors: Eva Semyonovna - Grodno, Belarus](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/eva-semyonovna-grodno-belarus/) - Hello. I received your letter and the money. My name is Eva. All of my relatives were killed in 1941 and I have a very difficult life. My daughter died at 51. She was very sick with Leukemia. I am a diabetic. I can't walk. I stay home and only go out when I go - [Holocaust Survivors: Tzilya Isaakovna - Grodno, Belarus](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/tzilya-isaakovna-grodno-belarus/) - Hello from Belarus! Greetings my dear friends! I received your letter and gift and extend many thanks to you for your care and attention to me. From my whole heart I am grateful to you. Be well. May G-d protect you. With my very best wishes to you, Tzilya - [Holocaust Survivors: Elena Aronova - Pinsk, Belarus](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/elena-aronova-pinsk-belarus/) - Thank you so much for your help. And thank you that you love the Jewish people. Congratulations on the holiday of Pesach. I wish you much happiness. - [Holocaust Survivors: Ninel A. - Grodno, Belarus](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/ninel-a-grodno-belarus-2/) - I received your letter and the money, thank you very much. On behalf of Ninel Alexandrova, her friend is writing this letter, because Ninel Alexandrovna's right hand is paralyzed. Once again Ninel Alexandrovna is thanking you. - [Holocaust Survivors: Fanya K. - Pinsk, Belarus](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/fanya-k-pinsk-belarus/) - Hello... I received your letter and the money ($10). It will be probably difficult for me to find exact words in order to thank you. Once again thank you very much and it is important that there such people who care about the others. I am not sure to what extent you are familiar with - [Holocaust Survivors: Galina O. - Brest, Belarus](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/galina-o-brest-belarus/) - Hello. I received your letter on my birthday (I am 83 years old.) Before I married my name was Glinda Livshiz... I am from Grodno, near Vitebsk. In the war I was a pilot. Now I am disabled. I cannot walk. Thank you for your good heart. I was so surprised to receive this money, - [Holocaust Survivors: Rivka A. - Grodno, Belarus](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/rivka-a-grodno-belarus/) - Hello my dear (good) strangers. I feel very glad that there are such good people in the world who want to help other people. I am Jewish and live in Grodno. My name is Rivka A. I received your letter and $10. Please send me a photograph so that I could at least have an - [Holocaust Survivors: Nina Tevelevna & Anna Markova - Grodno, Belarus](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/nina-tevelevna-anna-markova-grodno-belarus/) - Hello from Grodno. Thank you so much from Nina and daughter Anna. We received your letter and money on Purim, so it is twice as sweet. This is a big help at this difficult time. Much happiness to you. - [Holocaust Survivors: Raya - Grodno, Belarus](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/raya-grodno-belarus/) - Hi my friends. Thank you so much for your help and thank your families. You help me so much. - [Holocaust Survivors: Eva K. - Grodno, Belarus](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/eva-k-grodno-belarus-2/) - Hello I received your letter. Thank you. I am sitting and crying that total strangers care about me. Thank you so much. You sent me half of my pension. I have diabetes and I need to go to the hospital for the treatment, but at such an age no one needs you. Also it is - [Holocaust Survivors: Inna G. - Grodno, Belarus](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/inna-g-grodno-belarus/) - Hello, Ina from Grodno is writing to you. I am very grateful to you for all the greetings. Thank God he gives to the world such people like you who care about us. I am a disabled person and my husband has died and now I am left alone and it is very hard on - [Holocaust Survivors: Nina V. - Grodno, Belarus](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/nina-v-grodno-belarus-2/) - Hi my friends, I received your letter. Thank you. I received from you $71. Please know, this is very helpful for us. This is my life story: When the World War started my father went into the Army. On July 3, we went to a small town named Kalincovsche, and my father went back to - [Holocaust Survivors: Ninel A. - Grodno, Belarus](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/ninel-a-grodno-belarus/) - Thank you so much for the birthday greetings. A friend of Ninel Alexandrovna is writing to you. She lives alone and there are no relatives left. Ninel used to live with her mother-she was a doctor and Ninel Alexandrovna is math teacher. Three years ago she had stroke and her right side is paralyzed. Basically - [Holocaust Survivors: Elena Z. - Pinsk, Belarus](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/elena-z-pinsk-belarus/) - Hello friends...! I'm grateful to all of you for the help and support you have given me in hard times. It's lovely to know that so far away, on the other side of the ocean, there are people who sympathize with other people about their hardship. I wish for you to never to see difficulty - [Holocaust Survivors: Nina V. - Grodno, Belarus](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/nina-v-grodno-belarus/) - Good afternoon, We received your letter, great thanks! With the money - $40! I was born in November 1933. When the war began, I was 7 years old. There are a lot of details from our life during the war. One episode I remember well enough. We, the children, were given 150 grams of bread - [Holocaust Survivors: Eva K. - Grodno, Belarus](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/eva-k-grodno-belarus/) - Thank you for everything you do for me. I am not very healthy, my waist and hip joints ache, I had 9 intravenous injections, paid $10...but I still walk badly. Now my granddaughter went away and I am alone. Three times a month I got a food packet from "Hesed", but today they phoned and - [Holocaust Survivors: Rakhil D. - Pinsk, Belarus](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/rakhil-d-pinsk-belarus/) - Dear Friends, I received your letter and the money. Thank you very much. I hope that G-d will reward your kindness with good health. To me this is a great help. You asked me several questions: where was I born? I was born in a small place called Stavische, around the city of Kiev, on - [Holocaust Survivors: Rahil F. - Grodno, Belarus](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/rahil-f-grodno-belarus/) - I received your letter with congratulations on my birthday. There was $40 gelt and a postal coupon for return mail in the envelope. Great thanks for everything. I can't calm myself from such attention to me, it's great happiness that people like you exist on earth… I am looking at your photos and feel positive - [Holocaust Survivors: Roza S. - Grodno, Belarus](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/roza-s-grodno-belarus-5/) - Hello my dear friend ... There are no words that can express my gratitude towards you for your attention and help. Only G-d can help you in what you are doing. You asked me to write you about the war. It cannot be described in a letter. You need to write memoirs about it. I - [Holocaust Survivors: Yakov K. - Grodno, Belarus](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/yakov-k-grodno-belarus-2/) - Thank you very much for the letter and the money ... I will try to answer some of your questions. Before the war my family lived in the little town of Ostrino near the town of Grodno, where I was born. Before the Second World War, Grodno and our little town of Ostrino belonged to - [Holocaust Survivors: Roza S. - Grodno, Belarus](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/roza-s-grodno-belarus-2/) - Hello, my dear friends! I received your fragrant letter. Thank you very much that you haven't forgotten me and for your moral and financial support. You are so happy that you met your relatives in Israel …I have the other destiny-I have lost everyone and now I'm alone. But I'm not becoming despondent and take - [Holocaust Survivors: Yakov K. - Grodno, Belarus](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/yakov-k-grodno-belarus/) - Greetings ... I received all your letters, the photograph, and money. Thank you very much for everything. I am writing to you in Russian. The fact of the matter is that my niece, the daughter of my brother, who knows English well, left for Israel. She is getting married and will remain there to live. - [Holocaust Survivors: Fanya K. - Pinsk, Belarus](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/fanya-k-pinsk-belarus-3/) - Greetings! I received your letter, for which I am very grateful to you! Just as you wrote, after a few days from receiving your letter, Ludmilla came. She brought me (on 2-19) $250. To write what this material help means to me is very difficult in ordinary words. It is even more difficult to choose - [Holocaust Survivors: Natalia R. - Grodno, Belarus](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/natalia-r-grodno-belarus/) - This is Natalia writing to you from Grodno in Belarus. I received your TWO letters. Everything arrived successfully. I was so grateful that I burst into tears because you have become close to us, and care about us. Thank you!!! Thank you very much for the prayers for our health. We will also pray for - [Holocaust Survivors: Roza S. - Grodno, Belarus](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/roza-s-grodno-belarus-4/) - Greetings, my dear ones! I received your letter and help (gelt). Words cannot express the delight that your words offer. All my life I have heard many kind words and wishes from friends and coworkers with whom I worked for 52 years at the same place. But that is in the past, work has ended, - [Holocaust Survivors: Basya and Fanya - Pinsk, Belarus](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/basya-and-fanya-pinsk-belarus/) - When we received your letter we felt real joy because we don't receive letters from anyone else. if your friends wish to write to me I would be very glad. I will be 82 years old in May... I kiss you all. Gut Gezunt, Fanya and sister Basya - [Holocaust Survivors: Fanya and Basya K. - Pinsk, Belarus](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/fanya-and-basya-k-pinsk-belarus-2/) - Greetings, We received your letter, for which we thank you very much, that you don't forget us. You asked about my family, my family is myself and my sister, I didn't marry because my boyfriend perished at the front and I didn't want anyone else, so I live with my sister, our mother lived with - [Holocaust Survivors: Mina S. - Pinsk, Belarus](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/mina-s-pinsk-belarus/) - Greetings from Pinsk, Belarus! Greetings to my dear beloved [ones], I don't know English, Yiddish also, poorly, I understand everything but do not speak. Thanks to Sonia we will continue to carry on our excellent relations. [NB: Sonia is a Survivor Mitzvah Project translator]. Which warms me. You are interested in how I lived before - [Holocaust Survivors: Fanya and Basya K. - Pinsk, Belarus](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/fanya-and-basya-k-pinsk-belarus/) - Hello [to] all the friends that know my sister Basya and me. We received your letter, thank you very much for not forgetting about us. When we read your letter, we cried because of how much you care for us. Today we are going to a party to celebrate Chanukah. We have been invited by - [Holocaust Survivors: Fima G. - Kremenchug, Ukraine](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/fima-g-kremenchug-ukraine-3/) - Hello... I received your 2 letters and also the $200, which I am very grateful for. I don't even now how to thank you. If I personally met you I'd kneel and bow to you for your kindness and many warm words that you have said to me. I often myself where all that kindness - [Holocaust Survivors: Fanya K. - Pinsk, Belarus](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/fanya-k-pinsk-belarus-2/) - Greetings! I want to let you know that yesterday, on September 10, Ludmilla came to see me and brought me $300. It is difficult for me to find the words to thank you for this material help, which isn't simply money, but first of all is the faith that in this world there live people - [Holocaust Survivors: Moisei P. - Svencionys, Lithuania](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/moisei-p-svencionys-lithuania/) - Greetings esteemed ones, I congratulate you on the holiday of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. I wish you health and happiness in the New Year. I, Moisei Preisas, born in 1930, while still a youth, was in concentration camps from 1941 to 1945, the 2nd of May, in the Republic of Germany. (Stuthoff, Dachau, Auschwitz). - [Holocaust Survivors: Taya S. - Ivankov, Kiev Region, Ukraine](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/taya-s-ivankov-kiev-region-ukraine-2/) - Greetings dear friends! I am a neighbor of Taya [Simiakhotskaya] writing to you. I looked after her. I wrote you a letter, but probably you didn't receive it, and we didn't receive your [previous] letter either. She died a year ago. We erected a very beautiful memorial stone and we look after the grave. Well, - [Holocaust Survivors: Raisa K. - Yampol Vinnitsa Region, Ukraine](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/raisa-k-yampol-vinnitsa-region-ukraine/) - Greetings my dear friends! I received your letter with the New Year greetings, thank you very much. I also wish you health and may God bring you the very best of everything! I will of course be very grateful to you for your help, since our life is very difficult, my pension allows me to - [Holocaust Survivors: Mina S. - Pinsk, Belarus](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/mina-s-pinsk-belarus-2/) - Greetings my dear ones! All my American friends, I don't know how say how much gratitude I owe you. When Ludmilla came with her gift, from joy I wasn't able to find words. [NB: Ludmilla is a Survivor Mitzvah Project courier]. I was in seventh heaven and am very grateful that there is such a - [Holocaust Survivors: Dora P. - Vilnius, Lithuania](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/dora-p-vilnius-lithuania-3/) - Dear, dear friend and your nearest and dearest- I wish you all peace and a healthy, happy year. I received with joy your dear letter along with the gift, thank you very much. How nicely it was made precisely during the holidays. I'm simply delighted, and I take it as a sign of a joyful, - [Holocaust Survivors: Mina Zalmanova - Pinsk, Belarus](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/mina-zalmanova-pinsk-belarus/) - I received two letters and I admire how beautiful you all are, there is no way to express it in words in letters. How many good things come to my address. I am very grateful to you all. You are my friends with higher education and I am not well educated, sometimes I find it - [Holocaust Survivors: Fira B. - Ivankov, Ukraine](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/fira-b-ivankov-ukraine-3/) - [at top of letter] P.S. The letter that [you] wrote with $40 was en route for a very long time. Thank you very much. Greetings dear friends, My son Max brought me two letters, one with $45 and one with $40. One letter had your photographs. There is no way I can thank you, what - [Holocaust Survivors: Fanya and Basya K. - Pinsk, Belarus](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/fanya-and-basya-k-pinsk-belarus-3/) - Hello my dear friends...I wish you all good health. We received your letter, Every time we get a letter from you it is like a holiday-we read it several times. A few words about me and my sister Basya-we live together you know. Everything is the same. We were a little sick, but what can - [Holocaust Survivors: Roza S. - Grodno, Belarus](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/roza-s-grodno-belarus-3/) - Greetings my dear friends! I received your letter and while I was opening the envelope, my hands shook with emotion. I know that you have many good deeds that you are doing, that with your generous soul you give help to many people in need. May God assist you in the outstanding work you are - [Holocaust Survivors: Riva S. - Vilnius, Lithuania](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/riva-s-vilnius-lithuania/) - Greetings to all of my dear and wonderful friends! I received your letter along with the support and warm holiday greetings. I truly thank you that you do not forget me and that you take care of me. If only you knew how important this care and support is to me -- that this is - [Holocaust Survivors: Dora P. - Vilnius, Lithuania](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/dora-p-vilnius-lithuania-2/) - With great joy we received your beautiful letter and gift, the menorah. Many heartfelt thanks to you! For us here, the joyful holiday of Chanukah will start the 15th of December. I'm going to light this most beautiful menorah. I am simply delighted. The menorah will serve as a remembrance for the unforgettable holiday, one - [Holocaust Survivors: Fira B. - Ivankov, Ukraine](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/fira-b-ivankov-ukraine-2/) - L'chayim my dear and sweet friends... I wish you in advance a wonderful Chanukah! Thank you so much for the gift that you sent me for Hanukkah -- the letter with the 60 dollars. I wish all of you with all of my heart a wonderful Chanukah full of health, Mazel, success in all of - [Holocaust Survivors: Fima G. - Kremenchug, Ukraine](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/fima-g-kremenchug-ukraine/) - Hello dear American friends! First of all I wanted to let you know right away that today I received the device you sent me [a blood pressure monitor] in perfect order and decided to express my gratitude by replying immediately so you won't have to worry for your efforts. I can't, I don't know how - [Holocaust Survivors: Yudel R. - Kaunas, Lithuania](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/yudel-r-kaunas-lithuania/) - Erev Chanukah Kovno Chag Chanukah Sameach! My dear fellow fellow-tribesmen... I, a solitary invalid of the war, in the middle of March 2007 will be 84 years old... you cannot imagine my joy when I received from you your greeting for the joyous holiday of Chanukah. My room became bright, warm and joyous. Thus did - [Holocaust Survivors: Meylakh S. - Vilnius, Lithuania](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/meylakh-s-vilnius-lithuania/) - Last night after I came back from our retiree Sabbath celebration I found a wonderful surprise. It was your nice and wonderful, truly friendly letter... When the war began on June 22, 1941 I was in military camp 50 kilometers from Vilnius. Our big family remained in Vilnius while I was moving east with my - [Holocaust Survivors: Benjamin F. - Simferopol Crimea Region, Ukraine](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/benjamin-f-simferopol-crimea-region-ukraine/) - I have very sad news to report to you. On January 15 2007 my father Benyamin Leybovich suddenly passed away. On January 13 in the evening I spoke to him on the phone, his voice was firm, usually when he isn't feeling well his voice trembles. I had plans to travel to Ovruch on January - [Holocaust Survivors: Mikhel L. - Mogilyov Podolskiy Vinnitsa Region, Ukraine](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/mikhel-l-mogilyov-podolskiy-vinnitsa-region-ukraine/) - Greetings dear ... American friends! ... I promised to write you a little about our family. I will begin with my grandmother and grandfather, who were dear to me. At the time when I was born only my mother's parents were alive, my grandmother Freyda and grandfather Duvid-Arye. They had 8 children, but only three - [Holocaust Survivors: Asya B. - Vinnitsa, Ukraine](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/asya-b-vinnitsa-ukraine-2/) - Thank you very much for your letter, greetings, and gift. I am glad to receive letters from you. My sister and her family live in Israel and we sometimes talk together by phone. Therefore I receive letters only from you and am very grateful to you. At my age we lack opportunities to socialize… And - [Holocaust Survivors: Rita G - Ukraine](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/rita-g-ukraine/) - Hello my dear friends! Much time has passed since your stay here, but it seems like it was yesterday. It was a surprise visit, and it left plenty of memories. You remember, of course, when we went to see the poor family? Dear, I received your letter, the reply is a bit late, I am - [Holocaust Survivors: Rozalia - Belarus](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/rozalia-belarus/) - Esteemed Zane !! A big thank you for your help and the fact that you are helping me so much!! I will remember you and your friends to the end of my days. The money really came at the right time. Wishing you all good health, happiness and long years of life. Zane, I don't - [Holocaust Survivors: Rita G - Ukraine](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/rita-g-ukraine-2/) - Good day to every one who takes part in our correspondence! This is me, Rita, answering to your message with delay. But I am sure that you don't feel angry with me. It's so nice to receive letters, but very difficult to answer because of my poor eyesight. I don't want to ask anybody, and - [Holocaust Survivors: Luba Y - Ukraine](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/luba-y-ukraine/) - Dear Zane, You asked how we celebrated Passover before the war. I remember it very well. My parents had their own house, a Russian stove and their own cow, chicken, ducks, we always had chicken or duck schmaltz. I remember my father going to the attic and bringing Passover supplies, special Passover pots, we had - [Holocaust Survivors: Tsilya B. - Ukraine](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/tsilya-b-ukraine/) - Greetings, my darlings, my Zane, Noam, Chic, Beatrice, Sonya, Donna and all the loved American friends!!! Thank you so much that you do not forget me, and help me out even though the times are hard for everybody. I am praying for the chance to see you again here in the Ukraine, at my house. - [Holocaust Survivors: Fiodoris A - Lithuania](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/fiodoris-a-lithuania/) - Hello, Zane, On August 13th this year I received your letter, so long awaited. I am very grateful to you for this. We feel very uneasy and don't want to burden you, but if it's not difficult please send us a parcel with food stuff. We will be very grateful to you. I want to - [Holocaust Survivors: Genrichas – Lithuania](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/genrichas-lithuania/) - Dear Zane Buzby! Thank you, your family, and friends for such a wonderful gift on Rosh-Hashanah. I also congratulate you on all the Jewish holidays coming in autumn, and I wish you all the best of health, joy, and happiness. This year’s Rosh-Hashanah brought me some not so good things too. Several days after the - [Holocaust Survivors: Giller - Lithuania](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/giller-lithuania/) - Hello, our dear friends! Thank you for your great help. I simply don't believe still that there are as kind-hearted people as you are, who so gratuitously help us survive in this difficult world. Thanks to you I may live and support my family, my wife has had another stroke this year; she was so - [Holocaust Survivors: Fania B. - Lithuania](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/fania-b-lithiania/) - Dear Zane and the whole company, First, the best wishes on Purim, so the way we got rid of Haman, we will get rid of all the enemies of our people who have suffered so much. With lots of warmth and with pleasant memories I am still under the impression from our meeting in Vilnius. - [Holocaust Survivors: Golovzina - Ukraine](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/golovzina-ukraine/) - Hello our dearest and beloved Zane, Chic, Donna, Sonia, Beatrice, Conan and Debbie! We survived this winter with its frosty weather and snowfalls and now finally the spring is here. The month of May is very hot. We were trying to hurry up and plant the potatoes in our garden before the earth became too - [Holocaust Survivors: Sleima & Iosif - Lithuania](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/sleima-iosif-lithuania/) - My dear American friend! Sleima's son-in-law Iosif is writing to you on his request. Sleima thanks you very much for you kind wishes and the help you regularly send him. This year's April and May were, to put it mildly, not very pleasant. His well-being worsened considerably: at once both heart and legs, and water - [Holocaust Survivors: Giller - Lithuania](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/gillar-lithuania/) - Hello dear Zane, Chic, Conan, Sonia, Beatrice, and all of our friends. I want to tell you that I received the money. It helped me a lot. I just got out from the hospital and my daughter was also in the hospital. My wife hired someone to help her. She is very sick, and she - [Holocaust Survivors: Fania B. - Lithuania](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/fania-b-lithuania/) - Dear Zane and all your company. Thank you for your present and such a substantive letter. I apologize for delaying the reply. Regarding your questions about my leaving the ghetto for partisans. As I told you before, a partisan organization was founded in Vilnius ghetto in January 1942, FPO, which in Yiddish means united partisans - [Holocaust Survivors: Tsilya - Ukraine](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/tsilya-ukraine/) - Hello, my dear friends from faraway America! Sorry for the long silence. There was nobody to help me write the letter. My Sveta was ill, couldn't come to me, but now everything is okay. She will soon take me back with her to Kiev for winter. I will be together with her. It will be - [Holocaust Survivors: Luba - Ukraine](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/luba-ukraine/) - Greetings, my dear beloved 'daughters' Zenochka and Donochka and my American friends!!! First, my dear golden daughters, I want to congratulate you on the great holiday of Chanukah, the holiday of light and warmth. I wish you strong health, wellbeing, happiness, luck, and success in all your activities. May all your dreams come true with - [Itske G. - Kaunas, Lithuania](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/itske-g-kaunas-lithuania/) - My Dear friends, I am Itzke Gavenda from Kovna (Kaunas). Thank you so much! Your help makes an enormous difference to my life... From this whole region of little Jewish villages, not far from Svintsyan, ... I am today, alas the only survivor. I turn 84 on July 14th, so who knows for how long. - [Mera A. - Mariampol, Lithuania](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/mera-a-mariampol-lithuania/) - On the 28th of Feb I received your letter and for that I am very much thankful to you! I was born in 1925 in Kaunas. There I lived with my family. My mother died when I was 8 years old. I also had brothers. But they were shot at the start of the war. - [Bluma K. - Svencionys, Lithuania](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/238/) - My very dear friends, dear people! Today I received your kind, warm, letter. You are indeed like my family. I wanted to respond to you right away and I don't know in what language I should write? Should it be in Russian or in Yiddish? Sorry, but I don't write or completely understand English... I - [Shimon G. - Vilnius, Lithuania](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/shimon-g-vilnius-lithuania/) - Dear Friend, I received your letter with the check for which I greatly thank you. This is a great help for me since I am not always in the best of health and medicine is very expensive for us and my pension is not much. My wife Celia has Alzheimer's disease. During the war my - [Bluma K. - Svencionys, Lithuania](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/bluma-k-svencionys-lithuania-2/) - Esteemed and dear friend... I beg you to pardon me that I haven't answered you for so long. Both on your warm greetings as well as the check I received. A wonderful warm, thanks to you. I just now got the translation. Once again, best, warmest most heartfelt thanks. What shall I write to you? - [Karol G. - Bratislava, Slovakia](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/karol-g-bratislava-slovakia/) - Greetings! Thank you very much for your last 2 letters and the gelt as well. I m very grateful to you, especially for your concern and interest! You wanted to know something about my past, so here is a short account: I was born to a poor family in 1919 in what was then Hungary - [Bluma K. - Svencionys, Lithuania](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/bluma-k-svencionys-lithuania-3/) - You have made me very happy with your letter! What I know of you, of your warmth toward me, the main thing is that you are alive and well, and didn't forget me!!! This means very much to me! And I am infinitely glad! What can I tell you about myself? I am on my - [Bluma K. - Svencionys, Lithuania](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/bluma-k-svencionys-lithuania/) - A warm greeting and best wishes to you! Thank you for such warm feelings toward me. Your letter warmed my soul and it seems as if we are related. Thank you. I write to you in Russian with the hope that you will understand all of it. I don't know English. I studied in a - [Dora P. - Vilnius, Lithuania](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/dora-p-vilnius-lithuania/) - Holiday of Shavuot- An unforgettable day happened today. I traveled to my town of Zezmer where I was born … But how painful it has been, that I have lost everything here. I didn't recognize the streets, and not one building. Everything was wiped out; every trace that once was. What remains is only the - [Celia G. - Svencioneliai, Lithuania](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/celia-g-svencioneliai-lithuania/) - I received your letter and check. Thank you very much. I am very touched by your attention and goodness. Indeed not everyone would want to help strangers. I was not able to answer right away because I was in the hospital from June 6th to 26th. Now I am home, but still do not feel - [“San Diego Middle School Raises Money for Holocaust Survivors” – ABC Nightly News](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/san-diego-middle-school-raises-money-for-holocaust-survivors-abc-nightly-news/) - [Lara Berman interviews director Zane Buzby](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/lara-berman-interviews-director-zane-buzby-part-1/) - Lara Berman and director, producer and actress Zane Buzby discuss "The Survivor Project" on CU@USC in this 3-part video series. Part 1: [youtube_sc url="IrdbHWAeckM"] Part 2: [youtube_sc url="s8SCi-8_yyc"] Part 3: [youtube_sc url="xIyrOp7jz-E"] - [January 2010 Issue](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/january-2010-issue/) - [Alyssa Wolk Girl Scout Gold Award Survivor Mitzvah Project Community Service](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/alyssa-wolk-girl-scout-gold-award-survivor-mitzvah-project-community-service/) - [youtube_sc url="9G6k-Gn4LAU"] Alyssa Wolk completed her Girl Scout Gold Award-(the highest award in Girl Scouts) event by presenting a guest speaker Zane Buzby. Ms. Buzby is the co-founder of the Survivor Mitzvah project. The Survivor Mitzvah Project remembers the forgotten Holocaust Survivors of Eastern Europe by donating money, essential goods, and correspondence to the elderly. - [March 2011 Issue](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/march-2011-issue/) - [May 2011 Issue](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/may-2011-issue/) - [May 2011 KCET Local Hero Special Issue](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/may-2011-kcet-local-hero-special-issue/) - [Jewish American Heritage Local Hero: Zane Buzby by Jim Yager](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/jewish-american-heritage-local-hero-zane-buzby-by-jim-yager/) - [youtube_sc url="5Rna8e4Fkco"] Produced by Jim Yager Media for Union Bank & KCET Los Angeles. Producer: Jim Yager Camera: Bill Corona Editor: Jim Spadoni Zane Buzby, Founder of the Survivor Mitzvah Project was awarded Jewish American Heritage Local Hero of 2011. Here is the video from KCET & Union Bank. Show your support and comment, like - [June 2011 Issue](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/june-2011-issue/) - [July 2011 Issue](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/july-2011-issue/) - [Valerie Harper Talks The Survivor Mitzvah Project](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/valerie-harper-talks-the-survivor-mitzvah-project/) - [November 2011 Issue](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/november-2011-issue/) - [An Angel in Lithuania](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/an-angel-in-lithuania/) - [youtube_sc url="nO75nH4dFHs"] Zane Buzby and The Survivor Mitzvah Project team visit Zofia Prokopovich Voronetskaya in her village in Lithuania. During the Holocaust, Zofia's family rescued 4 Jewish people from the killing squads. They hid them for 3 years under the floorboards of their barn at great risk to the family. Zofia has been honored as - [Life and Death in the Forest - The Survivor Mitzvah Project](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/life-and-death-in-the-forest-the-survivor-mitzvah-project/) - [youtube_sc url="7kxF5uZYxH0"] Zane Buzby walks in the Lithuanian Forest with Fania Brancovskaja who escaped from the Vilna ghetto during the Holocaust. She was a member of The Avengers, a teenage Partisan unit. This is the last remaining Partisan camp in Lithuania. It is slowly sinking into the ground and will soon be covered by the - [Alone in Latvia - A Sole Survivor of the Holocaust is helped.](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/alone-in-latvia-a-sole-survivor-of-the-holocaust-is-helped/) - [youtube_sc url="PQApEr39dj4"] The Survivor Mitzvah Project's 2012 humanitarian expedition continues in Riga, Latvia. Zane Buzby and guide Liudmila bring aid to an elderly Holocaust survivor, Zelda Zarecka, who is alone and destitute. The SMP has been searching for her for quite some time but letters have gone unanswered. Never giving up, the expedition locates her - [The Survivor Mitzvah Project Presents “IN THEIR OWN WORDS”](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/the-survivor-mitzvah-project-presents-in-their-own-words/) - Readings from the Holocaust at The Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance COMMEMORATE INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY “IN THEIR OWN WORDS” THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 2012 at 7:00pm at the MUSEUM OF TOLERANCE In Their Own Words is the story of The Survivor Mitzvah Project’s humanitarian effort, providing lifesaving aid to elderly and forgotten Holocaust survivors - [Frances Fisher to support Holocaust fundraiser at The Simon Wiesenthal Center](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/frances-fisher-to-support-holocaust-fundraiser-at-the-simon-wiesenthal-center/) - The Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance will host a celebrity reading to benefit The Survivor Mitzvah Project, an effort to raise funds for elderly and forgotten Holocaust Survivors in Eastern Europe who are still suffering. Scheduled to appear are Ed Asner, Frances Fisher, Elliott Gould, Valerie Harper, Lainie Kazan, Alan Rosenberg, Brenda Russell, Arnold - [Stars for Survivors Hit the Town April 22nd](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/brenda-russell-and-more-join-smp/) - To read the full article, please click HERE. - [Lainie Kazan to support Holocaust victim fundraiser at The Simon Wiesenthal Center](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/lainie-kazan-to-support-holocaust-victim-fundraiser-at-the-simon-wiesenthal-center/) - The Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance will host a celebrity reading to benefit The Survivor Mitzvah Project, an effort to raise funds for elderly and forgotten Holocaust Survivors in Eastern Europe who are still suffering. Scheduled to appear are Ed Asner, Frances Fisher, Elliott Gould, Valerie Harper, Lainie Kazan, Alan Rosenberg, Brenda Russell, Arnold - [Stage and Screen Actors Join the Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Victims Fundraiser](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/stage-and-screen-actors-join-the-simon-wiesenthal-center-for-holocaust-victims-fundraiser/) - There are still thousands of holocaust survivors living in Eastern Europe who suffer during their golden years. To help alleviate their suffering, an all-star cast will join together at The Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance to host a celebrity reading to benefit The Survivor Mitzvah Project, an effort to raise funds for elderly and - [Brenda Russell, Arnold McCuller, Randal Keith and Consul General of Israel David Seigel join the cast of celebrities for Charity, Highlight Hollywood News](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/brenda-russell-arnold-mcculler-randal-keith-john-kobylt-the-consul-general-of-israel-and-david-siegel-join-the-cast-of-celebrity-readers-for-charity-highlight-hollywood-news/) - Arnold McCuller, Randal Keith, John Kobylt, The Consul General Of Israel, Mr. David Siegel and Grammy & Tony nominated Brenda Russell, join the cast of Celebrities such as Ed Asner, Frances Fisher, Elliott Gould, Valerie Harper, Lainie Kazan and Alan Rosenberg for The Survivor Mitzvah’s Project benefit entitled “The Stars Come Out to Help Survivors,” - [Help Holocaust Survivors Through The ‘Mitzvah Project’](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/help-holocaust-survivors-through-the-mitzvah-project/) - STUDIO CITY (CBS) — Actor Elliot Gould stopped by the KCAL9 studios Tuesday to talk about the Survivor Mitzvah Project and their upcoming event. The Survivor Mitzvah Project is a humanitarian effort dedicated to helping elderly, impoverished and forgotten Holocaust Survivors, dedicated to providing direct financial aid to those elderly survivors scattered throughout Eastern Europe - [Elliott Gould to support Holocaust victims fundraiser at The Simon Wiesenthal Center](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/elliott-gould-to-support-holocaust-victims-fundraiser-at-the-simon-wiesenthal-center/) - The Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance will host a celebrity reading to benefit The Survivor Mitzvah Project, an effort to raise funds for elderly and forgotten Holocaust Survivors in Eastern Europe who are still suffering. Scheduled to appear are Ed Asner, Frances Fisher, Elliott Gould, Valerie Harper, Lainie Kazan, Alan Rosenberg, Brenda Russell, Arnold - ['Rhoda' actress Valerie Harper talks new book, helping Holocaust survivors](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/rhoda-actress-valerie-harper-talks-new-book-helping-holocaust-survivors/) - LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Valerie Harper spent years making us laugh as Rhoda Morgenstern, Mary Richards' best friend, on the popular 1970s sitcom, "The Mary Tyler Moore Show." She continued the character on her own spin-off, "Rhoda," and in a TV movie back in 2000. Now all these years later, she's writing about those years - [Highlight Hollywood Reviews SMP Event](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/5355-2/) - The Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance, played host, on Sunday, April 22nd to an evening of theatre, music and celebrity readings, that raised thousands in emergency funds to be sent to remaining Holocaust Survivors. An evening written by TV comedy director, Zane Buzby, and produced by Conan Berkley, Zane Buzby and Frances Fisher, - [The Stars Come Out to Help Survivors](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/the-stars-come-out-to-help-survivors/) - [Photo Flash: Survivor Mitzvah Project Celebrities Raise Thousands for Holocaust Survivors](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/photo-flash-survivor-mitzvah-project-celebrities-raise-thousands-for-holocaust-survivors-read-more-httplosangeles-broadwayworld-comarticlephoto-flash-survivor-mitzvah-project-celebrities-raise/) - The Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance, played host, on Sunday, April 22nd, to an evening of theatre, music and celebrity readings, that raised thousands in emergency funds to be sent to remaining Holocaust Survivors. An evening written by TV comedy director, Zane Buzby, and produced by Conan Berkley, Zane Buzby and Frances Fisher, used - [LA Theater Scene & Charity Events on the Calendar](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/la-theater-scene-charity-events-on-the-calendar/) - Worthy Charity Events The stars lined-up for the Survivor Mitzvah Project “Celebrity Reading” (April 22), at the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance. Among those appearing: Ed Asner, Frances Fisher, Elliott Gould, Lainie Kazan, and Valerie Harper, who explains it is a fund-raiser to help the elderly and forgotten Holocaust Survivors in Eastern Europe. “We - [CELEBRITY READINGS Raise Thousands For Survivors, Highlight Hollywood Exclusive News](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/celebrity-readings-raise-thousands-for-survivors-highlight-hollywood-exclusive-news/) - The Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance, played host, on Sunday, April 22nd to an evening of theatre, music and celebrity readings, that raised thousands in emergency funds to be sent to remaining Holocaust Survivors. An evening written by TV comedy director, Zane Buzby, and produced by Conan Berkley, Zane Buzby and Frances Fisher, used - [Living With Holocaust Ghosts](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/living-with-holocaust-ghosts/) - Ed Asner, aka Lou Grant, walked slowly to the front of the stage at the Museum of Tolerance on Sunday night, and in his familiar growl — this time with a Latvian accent — he softly spoke: “Thank you for the help that is not only material, but also moral. A person lives through hope, - [Time is Running Out for Survivors in Eastern Europe](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/time-is-running-out-for-survivors-in-eastern-europe/) - Zane Buzby & Eva K. (Belarus) Scattered across Eastern Europe there are thousands of elderly Holocaust Survivors in desperate need of food, medicine, heat and shelter. Most are sole survivors of their families who were brutally murdered by the Nazis, some are survivors of the killing fields where hundreds of thousands of men women and - [Survivors of the Holocaust: Fanya and Misha](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/survivors-of-the-holocaust-fanya-and-misha/) - MISHA AND HIS MOTHER WHO HOLDS PHOTO OF HER DEAD HUSBAND, A DECORATED WAR HERO Their friends – a blind old woman Fanya with her unique son Misha. Misha is a middle-aged man who, as he puts it himself, is unmovable; his life is only his job and his mother, who cannot stay alone. Misha - [Survivors of the Holocaust: Meir and Galina](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/survivors-of-the-holocaust-meir-and-galina/) - MEIR Shub., Lithuania Photo: MEIR HOLDS PHOTO OF HIS MOTHER, MURDERED BY THE NAZIS. Born in 1924, Meir S. studied at the Yiddish-speaking Shalom Aleichem school in Kovna, Lithuania, graduating just two days before the start of the war. He managed to flee to Russia ahead of the advancing German Army. After the war, Shub - [Survivors of the Holocaust: Chaim and Mera](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/survivors-of-the-holocaust-chaim-and-mera/) - Chaim K, Belarus Age 94 and a decorated war veteran, he is almost totally blind and lives with his wife, also a decorated veteran. The oldest member of the iny community, he is the only one who was actually born there and not relocated after the war. He remembers life before the war and can - [Missives from our Brave Courier - Part 1](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/missives-from-our-brave-courier-part-1/) - The Survivor Mitzvah Project devotes considerable effort to ensure the safe delivery of funds in Eastern Europe by having a native courier visit survivors in their homes, assess their needs, bring lifesaving dollars and friendship, caring and hope. During the course of one mission, our brave courier, Ludmila, wrote: “I must thank you that I - [Missives from our Brave Courier - Part 2](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/missives-from-our-brave-courier-part-2/) - Photo: Esfir with photo of parents who were murdered by the Nazis. Just a week ago, after distributing funds to the elderly survivors, our courier wrote: Belarus and America: invisible ties I am trying to count how many times I have visited Pinsk since 2005. According to my chronology, it should be either sixth or - [Survivor Mitzvah Project / Zane Buzby - Why We Go](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/survivor-mitzvah-project-zane-buzby-why-we-go/) - [youtube_sc url="bJLRKA2VhAY"] "Why We Go" was filmed in Ukraine. It is a look at The Survivor Mitzvah Project in action - bringing direct and continuous financial aid to elderly survivors of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe. It shows our humanitarian trip to Ukraine that brought friendship to these last survivors of the Shoah. We let - [An Introduction to the Survivor Mitzvah Project(Video)](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/the-survivor-mitzvah-project-2/) - [youtube_sc url="qRbSKQxMFKs"] An introduction to the Survivor Mitzvah Project - [Missives from our Brave Courier - Part 3](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/missives-from-our-brave-courier-part-3/) - Some blocks away is Fima, a modest and undemanding woman. She almost never complains, speaks little about her diseases which she has plenty of, I am sure – her legs hurt, blood pressure jumps, not long ago she fell down and hurt her arm and head just inside her traditionally tiny flat. In winter she - [July 2012 Issue](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/july-2012-issue/) - [October 2012 Issue](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/october-2012-issue/) - [December 2012 Issue](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/december-2012-issue/) - [ETCHED IN MEMORY](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/etched-in-memory/) - The Graphic Art of the Holocaust, Prints from the Collection of Arthur Gilbert Click here to see the full brochure. - [SMP NEWS FOR INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/smp-news-for-international-holocaust-remembrance-day/) - Branko Lustig, Oscar winning producer of Steven Spielberg’s SCHINDLER’S LIST will be honored by The Mensch Foundation International for his commitment to Holocaust education and commemoration. Tuesday, January 29th, 2013, at 7 o’clock PM at Writers Guild Theater 135 S. Doheny Drive (just south of Wilshire Blvd) Beverly Hills, CA 90211 The proceeds from - [Celebrity Readings Raise Thousands For Survivors, Highlight Hollywood Exclusive News](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/celebrity-readings-raise-thousands-for-survivors-highlight-hollywood-exclusive-news-2/) - The Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance, played host, on Sunday, April 22nd to an evening of theatre, music and celebrity readings, that raised thousands in emergency funds to be sent to remaining Holocaust Survivors. An evening written by TV comedy director, Zane Buzby, and produced by Conan Berkley, Zane Buzby and Frances Fisher, used - [Kind Angel](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/kind-angel/) - [KTLA Hero at Home](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/ktla-hero-at-home/) - KTLA | `Hero at Home` Reaches out to Holocaust Survivors Living a World Away - [KCET 2011 Local Hero](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/kcet-2011-local-hero/) - KCET 2011 Local Hero: Zane Buzby | Jewish Heritage Month | Local Heroes - [KCAL - Help Holocaust Survivors Through The Mitzvah Project](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/kcal-help-holocaust-survivors-through-the-mitzvah-project/) - Help Holocaust Survivors Through The 'Mitzvah Project' Actor Elliot Gould stopped by the KCAL9 studios to talk about the Survivor Mitzvah Project and their upcoming event. - [Remember His Name](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/remember-his-name/) - [Six Million Coins](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/six-million-coins/) - [Daily News - Front Page](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/daily-news-front-page/) - [Tablet - Boldface Aid for Shoah Victims](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/tablet-boldface-aid-for-shoah-victims/) - [6 Million Coins](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/6-million-coins/) - [Lithuania Good Will Foundation](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/lithuania-good-will-foundation/) - [I Saved A Life Project](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/i-saved-a-life-project/) - [Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/who-shall-live-and-who-shall-die/) - [I Saved A Life](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/i-saved-a-life/) - For more information on how you can be a part of this lifesaving project, please click HERE. - [From Hollywood to the Holocaust](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/from-hollywood-to-the-holocaust/) - A Journey through the Looking Glass I leave the soundstage in a limousine headed for LAX. I am on hiatus, a break from directing sitcoms. I fly to Eastern Europe. My crew flies to Maui. They ride the waves in the Pacific. I ride a horse-drawn hay-cart in Belarus, searching for villages where a century - [Voices from the Holocaust](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/voices-from-the-holocaust/) - What happened to you? Tell me. Tell me everything. Thousands of letters pour in on torn scraps of paper. Pages and pages of handwritten Russian or Yiddish, with no punctuation… stories of love and loss, good and evil, friendship and betrayal. The horrors of war unfold in a torrent of words spilling into the margins. - [In Their Own Words – Chicago Newsletter](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/in-their-own-words-chicago-newsletter/) - [Passover 2014](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/passover-2014/) - [International Holocaust Remembrance Day](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/international-holocaust-remembrance-day/) - [For Immediate Release](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/for-immediate-release/) - Russian Crimean Annexation Puts Stress on Ukraine's Holocaust Survivors - [Star for Survivors Hit Chicago October 28th](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/5366-2/) - [I Saved a Life - 100 Individuals](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/i-saved-a-life-100-individuals/) - The printing of this newsletter was made possible by a generous donation from day2day printing. - [New York City at Webster Hall, The Stars Come out for Survivors](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/new-york-city-at-webster-hall-the-stars-come-out-for-survivors/) - (with Indigo Girls, Charles Grodin, Valerie Harper, Frances Fisher, Ron Rivkin, David Eigenberger - [SMP COMES TO CHICAGO!](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/smp-comes-to-chicago/) - Please click here to read the full newsletter. The Survivor Mitzvah Project – Chicago – Actors join us to help Holocaust Survivors! - [URGENT: Winter Food Shortages for Survivors](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/urgent-winter-food-shortages-for-survivors/) - URGENT: Winter Food Shortages for Survivors You can make a difference! - [The Last Survivors – Echoes from the Holocaust](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/the-last-survivors-echoes-from-the-holocaust/) - THE LAST SURVIVORS – ECHOES FROM THE HOLOCAUST is a one-hour television special that takes the viewer on a journey through the lives of elderly Holocaust survivors in remote villages in Eastern Europe, telling their inspiring and compelling stories and the heroic efforts to bring emergency aid to these forgotten heroes. The award-winning cast, Edward - [Save the Date!](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/save-the-date/) - For your convenience, there is a Donate Button at the bottom of the page. Donate $1800 and receive a Survivor Bracelet. Donate $1800 and receive a Survivor Bracelet - [WEAR A BRACELET — SAVE A LIFE](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/wear-a-bracelet-save-a-life/) - For your convenience, there is a Donate Button at the bottom of the page. Donate $1800 and receive a Survivor Bracelet. Donate $1800 and receive a Survivor Bracelet - [Can a Bracelet Save a Life?](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/5374-2/) - [The story of the survivor bracelet-redux](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/the-story-of-the-survivor-bracelet-redux/) - The survivor bracelet is a limited edition signature piece, created by Beverly Hills luxury jewelry designer Dominique Cohen in support of the lifesaving work of The Survivor Mitzvah Project. The Survivor Mitzvah Project is an urgent humanitarian effort providing emergency aid to elderly and impoverished Holocaust Survivors in Eastern Europe who are in critical need - ['Survivor Mitzvah Project' featured on EXTRA](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/survivor-mitzvah-project-featured-on-extra/) - See below for the full EXTRA interview of Zane Buzby and how Survivor Mitzvah Project is working together with Mel Gibson to help Holocaust Survivors. March 17, 2017: Zane Buzby has made it her mission to help others and save the lives of the forgotten victims of World War II with the Survivor Mitzvah Project. - [Wilmington, Delaware The Last Survivors – Echoes from the Holocaust](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/wilmington-delaware-the-last-survivors-echoes-from-the-holocaust/) - [Our Rosh Hashanah New Year’s Challenge](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/our-rosh-hashanah-new-years-challenge/) - On Rosh Hashanah the call of the shofar rouses the soul, renewing our moral conscience. The Survivor Mitzvah Project has opened its arms to hundreds of “new” Holocaust survivors like Boris and Nina in Ukraine [pictured below] who are in crisis, cut off from any financial aid except for what SMP supplies. In Eastern Europe - [Giving Tuesday](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/giving-tuesday/) - WHAT IS GIVING TUESDAY? A Global Giving Movement A Reason for the Season A Celebration of our Common Capacity to Give On Black Friday & Cyber Monday We GET Deals. On Giving Tuesday, We GIVE Back Every act of generosity counts, and means even more when we give together. Best. Tuesday. Ever. 11.28.17 #GivingTuesday - [The Survivor Mitzvah Project In Action – Moldova 2018](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/the-survivor-mitzvah-project-in-action-moldova-2018/) - The Survivor Mitzvah Project In Action – Moldova 2018 The Survivor Mitzvah Project travels all across Eastern Europe to bring aid to Holocaust Survivors in need. This video, shot on location in Moldova shows our humanitarian efforts in Moldova and neighboring Transnistria. We also record our visits and the Holocaust experiences of the survivors we - [The Last Survivors Screening](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/last-survivors/) - [Survivor Stories Newsletter - Passover Yom Hashoah 2015](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/survivor-stories-newsletter/) - [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.survivormitzvah.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Passover-Yom-Hashoah-2015.pdf” title=”_Passover-Yom-Hashoah-2015″] - [Survivor Stories - The Letter](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/the-letter/) - [pdf-embedder url="https://www.survivormitzvah.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Newsletter-2022-May-The-Letter-.pdf" title="Newsletter 2022 May - The Letter"] - [Survivor Stories - The Power of Passover](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/survivor-stories-the-power-of-passover/) - [pdf-embedder url="https://www.survivormitzvah.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/33-The-Power-of-Passover-2017-FINAL-TO-PRINT.pdf" title="33 The-Power-of-Passover-2017-FINAL-TO-PRINT"] - [Survivor Stories - Years of Struggle](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/survivor-stories-years-of-struggle/) - [pdf-embedder url="https://www.survivormitzvah.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/YEARS-OF-STRUGGLE-Newsletter-FINAL.pdf" title="YEARS OF STRUGGLE Newsletter FINAL"] - [Survivor Stories - International Holocaust Remembrance Day](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/survivor-stories-international-holocaust-remembrance-day/) - [pdf-embedder url="https://www.survivormitzvah.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Newsletter-January-2026-International-Holocaust-Remembrance-Day.pdf" title="Newsletter January 2026 International Holocaust Remembrance Day"] - [Survivor Stories - The Heart and the Star](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/survivor-stories-the-heart-and-the-star/) - [pdf-embedder url="https://www.survivormitzvah.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Newsletter-2025-02-February-The-Heart-and-the-Star-2.pdf" title="Newsletter 2025 02 February - The Heart and the Star (2)"] - [Survivor Stories - Why](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/survivor-stories-why/) - [pdf-embedder url="https://www.survivormitzvah.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Newsletter-2024-10-October-Why_.pdf" title="Newsletter 2024 10 October - Why_"] - [Survivor Stories - Yudel Ronder - A Life in Search of Justice](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/survivor-stories-yudel-ronder-a-life-in-search-of-justice/) - [pdf-embedder url="https://www.survivormitzvah.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Newsletter-2024-09-September-Yudel-Ronder-A-Life-In-Search-of-Justice.pdf" title="Newsletter 2024 09 September - Yudel Ronder - A Life In Search of Justice"] - [Survivor Stories - A Life Without Memories](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/survivor-stories-a-life-without-memories/) - [pdf-embedder url="https://www.survivormitzvah.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Newsletter-2024-08-August-A-Life-Without-Memories.pdf" title="Newsletter 2024 08 August - A Life Without Memories"] - [Survivor Stories - Imagining A World Without Hate](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/survivor-stories-imagining-a-world-without-hate/) - [pdf-embedder url="https://www.survivormitzvah.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Newsletter-2023-10-October-Imaging-A-World-Without-Hate.pdf" title="Newsletter 2023 10 October - Imaging A World Without Hate"] - [Survivor Stories - The Loneliness of Surviving](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/survivor-stories-the-loneliness-of-surviving/) - [pdf-embedder url="https://www.survivormitzvah.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Newsletter-2022-11-November-The-Loneliness-of-Surviving.pdf" title="Newsletter 2022 11 November - The Loneliness of Surviving"] - [Survivor Stories - The Witnesses](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/survivor-stories-the-witnesses/) - [pdf-embedder url="https://www.survivormitzvah.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Newsletter-2021-08-August-The-Witnesses.pdf" title="Newsletter 2021 08 August - The Witnesses"] - [Survivor Stories - Your Bar and Bat Mitzvah Project](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/survivor-stories-your-bar-and-bat-mitzvah-project/) - [pdf-embedder url="https://www.survivormitzvah.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Newsletter-2019-Your-Bar-and-Bat-Mitzvah-Project.pdf" title="Newsletter 2019 - Your Bar and Bat Mitzvah Project!"] - [Survivor Stories - A Salute to Christian Rescuers](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/survivor-stories-a-salute-to-christian-rescuers/) - [pdf-embedder url="https://www.survivormitzvah.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Newsletter-2021-07-July-The-Right-Thing-To-Do.-A-Salute-to-Christian-Rescuers.pdf" title="Newsletter 2021 07 July - The Right Thing To Do. A Salute to Christian Rescuers"] - [Survivor Stories - Planned Giving is One of Many Ways to Give](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/survivor-stories-planned-giving-is-one-of-many-ways-to-give/) - [pdf-embedder url="https://www.survivormitzvah.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Newsletter-2017-10-October-Planned-Giving-The-Many-Ways-To-Give.pdf" title="Newsletter 2017 10 October - Planned Giving - The Many Ways To Give"] - [Survivor Stories - The Forests Over the Jews](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/survivor-stories-the-forests-over-the-jews/) - [pdf-embedder url="https://www.survivormitzvah.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Newsletter-2012-12-December-The-Forests-Over-The-Jews-compressed.pdf" title="Newsletter 2012 12 December - The Forests Over The Jews-compressed"] - [Survivor Stories - Huffington Post Features Zane Buzby](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/survivor-stories-huffington-post-features-zane-buzby/) - [pdf-embedder url="https://www.survivormitzvah.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Newsletter-0000-Huffington-Post-Zane-Buzby-One-Foot-in-Comedy-One-Foot-in-the-Holocaust.pdf" title="Newsletter 0000 - Huffington Post - Zane Buzby 'One Foot in Comedy, One Foot in the Holocaust'"] - [Survivor Stories - Moldova](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/survivor-stories-moldova/) - [pdf-embedder url="https://www.survivormitzvah.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/MOLDOVA-REPORT-.pdf" title="MOLDOVA REPORT"] - [Survivor Stories - Mothers](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/survivor-stories-mothers/) - [pdf-embedder url="https://www.survivormitzvah.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/May-2025-Mothers-newsletter-.pdf" title="May 2025 Mothers newsletter"] - [Survivor Stories - Isaak](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/survivor-stories-isaak/) - [pdf-embedder url="https://www.survivormitzvah.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Letter-of-the-month-Isaak.pdf"] - [Survivor Stories Newsletter - International Holocaust Remembrance Day](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/january-2022-newsletter-international-holocaust-remembrance-day/) - [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.survivormitzvah.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/JANUARY-2022-NEWSLETTER-FINAL-TO-PRINT3.pdf”] - [Survivor Stories Newsletter - SMP Meets the Challenge of Delivering Aid During the Pandemic](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/february-2022-newsletter-delivering-aid-during-pandemic/) - [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.survivormitzvah.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Meeting-the-Challenge-Feb-2022-Draft-4-Final.pdf”] - [Survivor Stories Newsletter - Dvoira Itzkovna](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/march-2022-newsletter/) - [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.survivormitzvah.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/MARCH-2022-NEWSLETTER-TO-PRINT-draft-5.pdf”] - [Survivor Stories Newsletter - Passover 2022](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/passover-2022-newsletter/) - [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.survivormitzvah.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Passover-2022-Final-draft-51.pdf”] - [Survivor Stories - Newsletter Rita Geinikhovna Letter of the Month](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/rita-geinikhovna-letter-of-the-month/) - [pdf-embedder url="https://www.survivormitzvah.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/26-Letter-of-the-Month-—-Rita-Geinikhovna.pdf" title="26 Letter-of-the-Month-—-Rita-Geinikhovna"] - [Survivor Stories - Bullets](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/survivor-stories-bullets/) - [pdf-embedder url="https://www.survivormitzvah.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/BULLETS.pdf" title="_ BULLETS"] - [Survivor Stories - A Drop in the Ocean](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/survivor-stories-a-drop-in-the-ocean/) - [pdf-embedder url="https://www.survivormitzvah.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/A-Drop-In-The-Ocean-Newsletter-October-20121.pdf" title="_A Drop In The Ocean Newsletter October 2012(1)"] - [Survivor Stories - How Do You View the Holocaust](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/survivor-stories-how-do-you-view-the-holocaust/) - [pdf-embedder url="https://www.survivormitzvah.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/How-Do-You-View-the-Holocaust-RTP.pdf" title="_How Do You View the Holocaust RTP"] - [Survivor Stories - Heroic Women of the Holocaust](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/survivor-stories-heroic-women-of-the-holocaust/) - [pdf-embedder url="https://www.survivormitzvah.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Heroic-Women-of-the-Holocaust-5.pdf" title="Heroic Women of the Holocaust 5"] - [The Last Survivors – Echoes from the Holocaust](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/the-last-survivors-echoes-from-the-holocaust-2/) - FOR YOUR EMMY® CONSIDERATION — OUTSTANDING SPECIAL CLASS PROGRAM — OUTSTANDING WRITING FOR A VARIETY SPECIAL — OUTSTANDING DIRECTING FOR A VARIETY SPECIAL (For highest resolution choose 1080 by clicking the gear icon at the bottom right of the video player) THE LAST SURVIVORS – ECHOES FROM THE HOLOCAUST is the inspiring and compelling story - [Holocaust Survivors: Luba B. - Borispol, Ukraine](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/luba-b-borispol-ukraine/) - Hello! I received your letter and $20. Very big thanks for your help that you've given to me. For your kindness, let G-d give you great health, prosperity, longevity and happiness from your children, and everything, everything good. Let G-d help you and your children everywhere and all the time with kindness. Amen. You are - [Holocaust Survivors: Anya & Leonid - Brovary, Ukraine](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/anya-leonid-brovary-ukraine/) - Hi from Ukraine. Thank you so much for your help. Can you write more about yourselves as this is something special to me. My husband and I are very old. Nobody helps us. Congratulations on Purim and Pesach. We wish you much health and happiness. - [Holocaust Survivors: Lilya R. - Kiev, Ukraine](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/lilya-r-kiev-ukraine-2/) - Hello from Ukraine! Capital Kiev. Thank you so much for the letter and the gelt and also for the picture. You are my closest relatives because I have no one left in my family... ...I don't have any pre-war pictures [to send you]. Remember our "meeting" and that we correspond and thank you for your - [Holocaust Survivors: Lilya R. - Kiev, Ukraine](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/lilya-r-kiev-ukraine/) - Greetings my dear friends, I have received your letter and gift, for which I am grateful with my entire soul and I thank you for your concern and attention, and I am also grateful for praying for me when you were in Israel, may God give you good health, which for a person is most - [Holocaust Survivors: Khaya M. - Kiev, Ukraine](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/khaya-m-kiev-ukraine/) - We received your letter with $15.00. We have sad news to announce. Khaya Moishevna Matusovskaya passed away January 10th. We bought some flowers for her grave and also the people who rest in Babi Yar. Khaya's first husband was killed by the Germans, and her mother, father, and two brothers were murdered in Babi Yar. - [Holocaust Survivors: Esfir S. - Pinsk, Belarus](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/esfir-s-pinsk-belarus/) - Hello from Byelorussia, We received letter from you and $10, thank you very much. Esfir Shaevna cannot write on her own, so her neighbor who is taking care of her for the fifth year is writing on behalf of Esfir. Her [other] friend left to live in Israel and Esfir is left alone. I visit - [Holocaust Survivors: Lerman K. - Grodno, Belarus](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/lerman-k-grodno-belarus-2/) - Hello. Thank you for your help. I do not feel good. I live alone with no one [no family] around. A woman comes to help me and she helped me write this letter. *** Hello... Thank you so much for the letter and support. From all my heart I wish you health and long years - [Holocaust Survivors: Lerman K. - Grodno, Belarus](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/lerman-k-grodno-belarus/) - Hello, I received your letter and the money and I am very grateful for that. I do not have any prewar pictures, everything was lost, however I have a picture from my passport, I changed my passport last year and if you want I can send you that picture. During the war I was in - [Holocaust Survivors: Ester M. - Luninetz Brestskaya, Belarus](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/ester-m-luninetz-brestskaya-belarus/) - My dear friends, Thank you for your letter and for the support you provided me. I do not know English and cannot write [in English] but obviously that is not an obstacle for good people. You asked me to send you pre-war photographs. Unfortunately I have none. When the war stared I was 14 years - [Holocaust Survivors: Roza S. - Grodno, Belarus](https://www.survivormitzvah.org/roza-s-grodno-belarus/) - Hi my friend. 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