VISION
VISION
Knowing that among us are Holocaust survivors who live in need, is staggering and concerning. The aim of the Foundation is to help these people by alleviating at least partially their financial burden and distress. This is a humanitarian demand and the least that we can provide.
Gamaraal Foundation
Knowing that among us are Holocaust survivors who live in need, is staggering and concerning. The aim of the Foundation is to help these people by alleviating at least partially their financial burden and distress. This is a humanitarian demand and the least that we can provide.
Gamaraal Foundation
FIELDS OF ACTIVITY
FIELDS OF ACTIVITY
Funds
The Foundation makes three contributions of a three-digit amounts to the Holocaust survivors living in difficult situation every year on the Jewish holidays of Rosh Hashana, Hanukkah and Pessach. The project was launched in 2015, and already 20 rounds of contributions have been made.
Medical aid, such as: hearing aids, dental treatment, vision aids, walking aids, orthopedic shoes, wheelchairs, Incontinent products, compression stockings, etc. are available.
Education
One of the main goals of the foundation is genocide prevention. Therefore, we invest in educating people. We bring Holocaust survivors to school classes to talk about their past experiences. Additionally, we organise interviews and talks with Holocaust survivors to spread the word and inform people about the atrocities of the Holocaust.
Preservation
We help to preserve Holocaust survivors’ testimonies. It is our responsibility to learn from these brave individuals and ensure that the horrible events of the Holocaust are not forgotten, and that such atrocities never happen again.
Oral history
During the Spring semester 2019, a research seminar of the Center for Jewish Studies in Basel on the topic “Oral History and Jewish History in Switzerland” was held in cooperation with the Archive for Contemporary History at the ETH of Zuerich and the Gamaraal Foundation. Interviews with contemporary witnesses of Swiss-Jewish history and Shoah-Resplendence were conducted.
IN FOCUS
IN FOCUS
The Swiss National Museum
in the Department permanent exhibition Swiss History
virtual exhibition The Last Swiss Holocaust Survivors by the Gamaraal Foundation
BOOK
The Last Swiss Holocaust Survivors
Portraits of survivors who have found a new home in Switzerland.
GAMARAAL
URGENT HELP FOR
UKRAINE
We have a dramatic humanitarian crisis in Europe.
There is great need for food, shelter, medicines, and other everyday items.
We are in touch with our long-lasting locals who will help ensure that the most pressing needs are met, specially also for Holocaust survivors.
Gamaraal Foundation is supporting refugees from Ukraine here in Switzerland.
Please support us! You can donate via bank transfer.
IBAN: CH12 0023 0230 5643 4844 F
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for helping.
For further information, please contact us: admin@gamaraal.org
I am pleased to see the commitment of the President of the Gamaraal Foundation, Anita Winter, and her team benefits the Holocaust survivors in Switzerland.
Rüdiger Mahlo, German Representative of Claims Conference
I am deeply moved and strongly supportive of the efforts you have made in Switzerland to alleviate the plight of Holocaust survivors. Your actions are inspirational.
Stuart Eizenstadt, American diplomat and attorney
EDUCATION
EDUCATION
Field Trips to Auschwitz
We support educational field trips to Auschwitz organized by the “Foundation against Racism and Anti-Semitism (GRA)” together with the Gamaraal Foundation.
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Life After
“The Life After” project aims to show children and students the consequences of the holocaust, how the survivors continued their lives and the impacts of their experiences on the next generations.
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Video Testimony Project
We aim to preserve the stories and testimonies of Holocaust survivors to keep the memory and enable in future to educate children with a better learning experience.
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«It is close to our hearts to help and assist the people affected. On a long term, the Foundation is also dedicated for the sustained promotion of Holocaust education and genocide prevention»
Anita Winter
Founder and President
Gamaraal Foundation
