The Survivor Mitzvah Project is dedicated to providing direct and continuous financial aid to those elderly and forgotten Jewish Holocaust Survivors scattered throughout Eastern Europe who are sick, impoverished, isolated and receive no direct financial aid from any other agency. Their families and communities destroyed by the Nazis, they struggle to survive in their few remaining years, lacking the means to buy even the most basic of human necessities: food, medicine, heat and shelter. Most live alone in harsh conditions. Our project, by bringing help quickly and directly to these survivors, helps ensure that they may live out their last years with some measure of comfort, support and dignity.

 

For the elderly Survivors in Ukraine, Moldova, Slovakia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, and Belarus, your help means life!

 

They are the last generation of Holocaust Survivors and we are the last generation who can help.

 

Be a part of the greatest rescue operation of the 21st Century.

 

 

 

 

Who saves one life, saves the world entire.

 

 

– The Talmud

 

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Become a Rescuer

 

 

These elderly survivors, who have endured the darkest days of history and the worst that humanity has to offer, now give us the chance to be the best of who we are as a people.

 

I ask you personally to become a rescuer and participate in this urgent humanitarian effort to help the last Survivors of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe.

 

Together we can write a more hopeful final chapter to the Holocaust…one of friendship, love & kindness.   – Zane Buzby

THE SURVIVOR MITZVAH PROJECT HOLOCAUST EDUCATIONAL ARCHIVE Our primary mission is the welfare and caring of survivors and our secondary mission is Holocaust Education.  The Survivor Mitzvah Project’s Holocaust Educational Archive is the only one of its kind in the world, focusing on the The Holocaust in the East – the untold story of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe.   Over 500 hours of video and tens of thousands of photographs and handwritten testimonies tell the story of the 2.7 million (nearly half of the 6 million who were killed), and the unimaginable and heroic experiences of those who survived. These extraordinary stories of heroism and betrayal,  love and loss, life and death, with have an impact on Holocaust Education far into the future. Some survivors fought as brave partisans in the forests, some fought with the Cossacks or the Polish Army, some ran from the Einsatzgruppen,  the mobile killing squads, which fanned out across Eastern Europe killing every Jewish man,  woman or child in their path and then torching those villages and moving on to the next town, the next massacre.  The survivors tell us of strapping their children on their backs and swimming across rivers that were ablaze with burning fuel in order to escape the  mass killings, or of being herded into Synagogues which were locked and set on fire, or hiding underground, or living under assumed identities or experiencing the horrors of little known concentration camps such as Pechora and Koldyma. Each story represents a part of history that had never been told before.    The Survivor Mitzvah Project’s Holocaust Educational Archive is a new, contemporary way to teach the Holocaust and too teach tolerance for all races and religions using new technologies in syn with the digital age.  We need your help to fund this archive to make it available to a global audience in an effort to build a world free of discrimination and hatred and work together towards a kinder, more compassionate world population.  We need your help now, because time is running out to record more of these survivors on video. This is the survivors’ legacy to future generations and we must make certain every survivor gets to tell their story.      The Survivor Mitzvah Project’s Holocaust Educational Archive contributes to an important dialogue on social justice, tolerance for cultural differences, an appreciation of human commonality, and a warning to confront evil wherever it takes hold. Naming rights are available.  For more information contact Zane Buzby at 800-905-6160

EXCERPTS FROM THE ARCHIVE

“EXCERPTS FROM THE ARCHIVES –THE LAST SYNAGOGUES”  (Running time: 1 minute 52 seconds)

“THE WITNESSES – A STORY IN A SENTENCE”  (Running time: 2 MINUTES)

“THE SURVIVORS – A STORY IN A SENTENCE”  (Running time 4 minutes)

“LYUBOV ISAKOVNA VAKAR – A Survivors Story” (Running time 31 minutes)

“THE LAST JEWS IN BAZALIYA”  (Running time 21 minutes) This is a “family style” visit so the viewer can experience the full breath of the subjects – their humor, their experiences and the great love they have for one another.

“A WITNESS SPEAKS” HINCATU, MOLDOVA  (Running time 20 MINUTES)  This details some of the same events as Lyubov Vakar experiences, but from the point of view of a non-Jewish village woman.

 

Watch our Humanitarian Efforts in Moldova	Watch SMP’s Holocaust Educational Archive