The International School for Holocaust Studies

Sponsors

Adelson Family Foundation

Adelson Family Foundation

The Adelson Family Foundation was established in 2007 by Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson.
The primary purpose of the Foundation is to strengthen the State of Israel and the Jewish people.


The Asper Foundation

The Asper Foundation

Established in April 2002, The Asper International Holocaust Studies Program at the International School for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem supports a biannual international conference on Holocaust education, professional development seminars for teachers at Yad Vashem and abroad.
As a result of the generous support of the Asper Foundation, Winnipeg, Canada, major efforts have been made over the past few years to promote Holocaust education. It appears that teachers not only need to learn more about the facts of what happened during the Holocaust, but also be better equipped on how to approach the teaching of this difficult and complex subject matter in their classrooms. Our mission is to provide teachers with study seminars and in-service training courses that include both factual knowledge and pedagogical guidelines on how to teach the Holocaust.


Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany

Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany

The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany works to secure compensation and restitution for survivors of the Holocaust.
Since 1951, the Claims Conference - working in partnership with the State of Israel - has negotiated for and distributed payments from Germany, Austria, other governments, and certain industry; recovered unclaimed German Jewish property; and funded programs to assist the neediest Jewish victims of Nazism.


Dutch Jewish Humanitarian Fund

Dutch Jewish Humanitarian Fund

The Dutch Jewish Humanitarian Fund (JHF) started operating in 2002. The organization was established as a result of the negotiations on Jewish war claims in the Netherlands. In 1999 and 2000 the Dutch government, the Netherlands Bankers' Association, the Association of Insurers, the Amsterdam Stock Exchange Association, and the Amsterdam EOE Index acknowledged that the process for restitution of money and stolen goods by the Nazis following the Second World War was unsatisfactory. In a historic settlement, with the Central Jewish Board of the Netherlands (CJO) and Platform Israel (representative organization of Dutch Jews in Israel), 347 million euros was collectively provided to the Dutch-Jewish community. Of this amount, 181.51 million euros was contributed by the Dutch government.
The Jewish community saw this settlement as supporting its position that whatever possessions could not be returned to the individuals entitled to them or their heirs after the Shoah should be entrusted to the Jewish community in the Netherlands, as moral heir of the Dutch Shoah victims.
In the settlement between the Dutch Jewish community, the Platform Israel, and the Dutch government, it was agreed to allocate part of the Dutch government's contribution toward a fund to support projects dedicated to restoring Jewish life in former communist countries, providing Jewish education, promoting mutual respect between people, and supporting civilian victims in war zones. The JHF was conceived as a joint initiative of the Dutch government and the Dutch-Jewish community. The formal background of the Dutch Jewish Humanitarian Fund can be found in the letter of the Dutch government to parliament of 21 March 2000 (Tweede Kamer, vergaderjaar 1999/2000, 25839, no. 13).
Since 2002, when the Foundation was established and announcements placed in newspapers, the JHF has disbursed annual grants to qualified projects.


Genesis Philanthropy Group

Genesis Philanthropy Group

The mission of Genesis Philanthropy Group is to develop and enhance Jewish identity among Russian-speaking Jews worldwide, with a particular emphasis on the former Soviet Union, North America, and Israel, where up to three million Russian-speaking Jews reside.
We are committed to supporting and launching projects, programming, and institutions that are focused on ensuring that Jewish culture, heritage, and values are preserved in Russians-speaking Jewish communities across the globe. We believe that informed and engaged Russian-speaking Jews will enrich their communities, strengthen the Jewish people, and contribute to the betterment of humanity.


The International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims

The International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims

ICHEIC was established in 1998 following negotiations among European insurance companies and U.S. insurance regulators, as well as representatives of international Jewish and survivor organizations and the State of Israel.
ICHEIC's settlement agreements with various insurance companies and the German Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility, and Future" provide for funds to be made available for humanitarian purposes related to the Holocaust.
The ICHEIC Program for Holocaust Education in Europe is charged with preserving and perpetuating the memory of the Holocaust and its lessons, combating the rise in antisemitism, safeguarding human rights and preventing racism and xenophobia.


The Kennedy Leigh Charitable Trust

The Kennedy Leigh Charitable Trust

The Kennedy Leigh Charitable Trust is a Family Trust founded by the late Michael Kennedy Leigh. Based in London, the Trust supports various projects in Britain and Israel.


Edmond J. Safra Philanthropic Foundation

Edmond J. Safra Philanthropic Foundation

Edmond J. Safra created a major philanthropic foundation to ensure that needy individuals and organizations would continue to receive assistance and encouragement for many years to come. Following his passing in 1999, and now under the chairmanship of his beloved wife Lily, the Edmond J. Safra Philanthropic Foundation draws continuing inspiration from its founder's life and values. With Mrs. Safra's leadership, the Foundation has assisted hundreds of organizations in over 50 countries around the world, and its work encompasses four grantmaking areas: Education; Science and Medicine; Religion; and Humanitarian Assistance, Culture, and Social Welfare.


World Holocaust Forum Foundation

World Holocaust Forum Foundation

The World Holocaust Forum Foundation is an international organization dedicated to preserving the memory of the Holocaust and its important lessons for all of humanity. The Foundation has been charged with two major functions. The first of which is the organization and administration of International Holocaust Forums on a continuing basis. The Forums are unique in that they call for the direct participation of World Leaders in the examination and the advancement of Holocaust awareness and commemoration in their respective nations and throughout the world. Moreover, the Forum will monitor the state of global anti-Semitism and will work in conjunction with the respective world leaders for its eradication.
The Foundation’s second major function is the creation and administration of the European Holocaust education program. Founded upon the initiative of Yad Vashem and the European Jewish Congress, the education program will commence with teaching seminars that will create a core of European educators that will be able to disseminate Holocaust education throughout the various European nations. This core of educators will in turn be able to instruct other educators in each of the individual nations as well as prepare instruction materials in each of the European languages. Furthermore, the materials will be culturally sensitive so that this essential information can be imparted in the most efficient manner.
The Foundation was established in 2005 following the First International Holocaust Forum in Krakow, Poland and marked the sixtieth anniversary of the liberation of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau. Recognizing that the world will soon lose the last of the survivors of the Holocaust and in light of the troubling upsurge of global anti-Semitism, the World Holocaust Forum Foundation is committed to eternalizing the knowledge and understanding of the Holocaust and to foster tolerance between religions and nationalities in the aspiration of eliminating all forms of anti-Semitism, racism, and xenophobia. The Foundation currently has offices in Moscow, Geneva, and Jerusalem.
Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor, the founder of the Forum, is a prominent public personality, international philanthropist and entrepreneur, who has greatly contributed to revitalizing Jewish life inside and outside Europe.


The Ted Arison Family Foundation

The Ted Arison Family Foundation

The Ted Arison Family Foundation was established in 1993 by the late businessman Ted Arison and his daughter, Shari.
The Foundation's worldview is giving that is based on three core Jewish values: Tzedakah, charity; Hesed, acts of loving-kindness; and Tikkun Olam, transforming the world - in the hope of bringing about essential change, encouraging excellence and social responsibility, and building a better society.
The private, family-held Foundation does not raise funds from outside sources.
Each year, the Foundation donates to various projects and to hundreds of associations and organizations that are active in the fields of health care; education; children and youth; culture, the arts and sports; populations in distress; disabilities; and scholarships and research

The foundation kindly supports the program of training Israeli peripheral teachers to teach the Holocaust.