Thank you Amy, Sarah and to your entire team!

We are all heartbroken about what is happening in our beloved land of Israel and to our people. As you know, our Holocaust Survivor clients are watching what is happening in the world with fractured hearts. We are doing our best to help them focus on the positives and that the future of the State of Israel will be even brighter at the end of all of this. Our partnership with you and KAVOD SHEF and Seed the Dream Foundation, has been such a tremendous blessing for all of us. We feel so fortunate that we can provide so many of our Holocaust Survivors with the food, emergency homecare, medications and so many other needs they have with the funds raised by our agency and matched by KAVOD SHEF . I can tell you that our Survivors feel supported; they feel loved; they feel cared for; they feel less alone; they feel less stressed; they feel grateful. During these challenging months, what an incredible gift this partnership has been! We look forward to working together in the coming year!

KAVOD truly lives its mission of ensuring dignity for survivors.

Amy, Sarah and the KAVOD team do this holy work in the most person-centered and loving manner. As the Director of Social Work at a Jewish Family Service agency, I’m keenly aware that funding often presents with numerous associated barriers. This is not the case with KAVOD! The funds are intended, and actually used, for the betterment of survivors’ lives.

With the support of KAVOD SHEF funds, we have been able to implement meaningful, impactful and sustainable interventions to enhance the quality of life of our survivors! The team is professional, punctual and personable, and it’s an honor to work alongside them!

L.G.
Kansas City

Dear KAVOD SHEF,

It is with a deep sense of appreciation and gratitude to you and your organizations that I am writing this letter. It turned out that the price of the root channel of my one tooth is 1775 dollars plus a consultation of 175 dollars. My Medicaid and Medicare insurances were powerless and were not able to cover it. This procedure is more than 3 times my monthly SSI allowance, which is $595 per month. Not only you helped me invaluably, you saved me in the full sense of this word. I am sure that your big hearts are open not only to me. Your desire and the desire of your organizations to provide all possible assistance to those in need of it is beyond praise.

My family and I wholeheartedly wish you, your bosses, your families good health, happiness, success in your noble work and care for those in need.

Dear KAVOD SHEF,  Seed The Dream Foundation and your funding partners,

Please accept our most sincere hakarat hatov, most sincere thanks, praise and appreciation, to those who have made our work with Holocaust survivors possible. We feel compelled to share how this grant has been life-changing for our clients. Our KAVOD SHEF and Seed The Dream Foundation grant has literally put eye glasses on eyes so people can see, hearing aides in ears so people can hear, shoes on feet so people can walk, food in mouths so people did not go hungry … I could go on and on … the dignity and compassion and pride with which we are able to operate is the greatest gift of all. We are able to provide our Holocaust survivors with sensitive, responsive, trauma-informed quality care in their most critical moments of need, something which enables them to feel loved, cared for and, most importantly, respected.

Before this grant, we could barely offer any support other than words of hope; now at this present time, we can actually offer tangible help in the precise moment of need in ways which are life affirming and enriching. Today, our clients know that we are there for them and that they do not need to worry or fear for tomorrow. Today, we are right there by their side giving them the help they need most. It’s more than money at this point – we have built a community through this grant and created family where, for some, there has never been before.

Dear Madame Pregulman,

It occurs to me that sometimes you must wonder about the who, the where, the how and the why. I will attempt to explain each one. First however, thank you for your support so graciously given and gratefully accepted.

I am Rachel. I was born in Krakow, Poland in 1930. Quite obviously, this was NOT my decision to make. Had it been, rest assured I would have chosen a different time and place. I know live in Pennsylvania, in what must be a corner of paradise. I have lived in many countries and cities, but it seems that the last part of my life will be spent in a serene, safe and beautiful area. Weather wise, it too is meaningful to someone who has frozen in climates that were not meant for people who were unclothed and starved.

I am an American citizen, and have spent fourty six years of my life in New York. In 1992 my husband and I emigrated to Canada for expedient reasons, where we also, became citizens. In 2013 we returned to the Unites States in order to be near our daughter and her family. Especially so, because my husband had never been well after the first heart attack and remained a cardiac patient.

I have never been well since the Holocaust. I do not remember a day in my life without enduring unbelievable pain. Usually resulting in a surgical procedure. My Medical C.V. reads like a book. Yes, the Holocaust has left me a something to remember. This, plus the scars on my body. Sometimes, when I awake in the morning, in pain, I wonder to myself whether this is the way for the Almighty, to remind me that I am survivor. I lived when Millions died. WHY? I do not accept “Bashert”. I would be happy not to have been accorded “KAVOD” but this too, once again, was not my choice.

Thank you, et al at “KAVOD” for the noble work you do.

Sincerely,