Gamaraal Foundation
| Gamaraal Foundation | |
|---|---|
| Purpose: | Supporting Holocaust survivors and promoting education on the Holocaust |
| Chair: | Anita Winter |
| Board of Trustees: | Manuel Avi Winter Rafael Arieh Winter Alisa Nava Winter Gadi Daniel Winter |
| Consist: | since 2014 |
| Seat: | Zurich |
| Website: | www.gamaraal.com |
The Gamaraal Foundation is a foundation founded by Anita Winter in Switzerland in 2014 . It supports needy Holocaust survivors and is committed to the sustainable promotion of Holocaust education.
Areas of activity
Support for Holocaust survivors
The Gamaraal Foundation supports needy Holocaust survivors with a variety of assistance. For example, the foundation makes financial donations to needy Holocaust survivors three times a year - on the Jewish holidays of Rosh Hashana, Hanukkah and Passover. The foundation also finances medical aids. In March 2020, on the occasion of the Corona crisis, the foundation also launched a special help campaign for Holocaust survivors and other people affected by the Corona crisis.
Holocaust Education
In the field of Holocaust Education, the Gamaraal Foundation u. a. Encounters with contemporary witnesses of the Holocaust, documents testimonies from Holocaust survivors and offers study trips to Auschwitz together with the Foundation against Racism and Anti-Semitism (GRA).
The Last Swiss Holocaust Survivors
When Switzerland took over the chairmanship of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) in 2017, the Gamaraal Foundation u. a. realized the exhibition project "The Last Swiss Holocaust Survivors" with the support of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. The exhibition portrays some of the last Holocaust survivors who live in all parts of Switzerland. The ETH Zurich Archives for Contemporary History provided scientific support for the project. The exhibition was particularly well received by school classes, and there was also great interest from the media. In March 2018, the Gamaraal Foundation, together with the Archives for Contemporary History at ETH Zurich, was awarded the Dr. Kurt Bigler Prize awarded for "outstanding projects in the field of Holocaust education". Occasionally the exhibition was u. a. criticized for its title.
Web links
- Gamaraal Foundation
- Katharina Bracher: Holocaust victims are often destitute today , NZZ on Sunday , April 3, 2016
- Daniel Szpielman: Many are thinking about fleeing again today , Basler Zeitung , January 28, 2016
- “It means the recognition of their suffering” , SRF, January 27, 2015
- Flavia Schlittler: She makes life easier for Holocaust survivors , SonntagsBlick , January 1, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ Keeping memories of the Holocaust alive. From the Gamaraal Foundation website, accessed April 12, 2020
- ↑ Gamaraal Foundation. Retrieved April 12, 2020 .
- ↑ Gamaraal Covid-19. Retrieved April 12, 2020 .
- ↑ Juedische Allgemeine. Retrieved April 12, 2020 .
- ↑ Gamaraal Foundation. Retrieved April 12, 2020 .
- ↑ GRA. Retrieved April 12, 2020 .
- ^ Kornhaus Forum: Kornhaus Forum. Retrieved April 26, 2020 .
- ↑ University of Basel event calendar. Retrieved April 26, 2020 .
- ↑ Stories of Survival. Retrieved April 26, 2020 .
- ↑ Juedische Allgemeine - Faces and Stories. Retrieved April 25, 2020 .
- ^ Parish gazette - Hope for more humanity. Retrieved April 25, 2020 .
- ^ Archives for Contemporary History. Retrieved March 30, 2020 .
- ↑ A living legacy. Retrieved April 26, 2020 .
- ↑ Tages-Anzeiger. Retrieved April 26, 2020 .