WAYS TO HELP - Emanu-El

WAYS TO HELP
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The Blue Card, Inc.
171 Madison Avenue, Suite 1405
New York, NY 10016
Volunteer:
• At The Blue Card office
• Visit a Holocaust survivor at
home or in the hospital
• Support the B’nai Mitzvah
Simcha project
• Deliver holiday food
packages
PRESIDENT
Gia Machlin
CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD
Michael D. Lissner
VICE CHAIRMAN
Orit Hodarkovsky
FIRST VICE PRESIDENT
Elie Rubinstein
VICE PRESIDENTS
Harriet Abramson
Frank Harris
Arie Hochberg
David Wrobel
TREASURER
Arie Hochberg
SECRETARY
Patricia Lenkov
RABBINIC COMMITTEE
Rabbi Aaron Goldscheider
Rabbi Steven Kushner
ASSISTANT SECRETARY
Erika Teutsch
Join our team:
• Marathons: New York City,
Atlanta, Miami and more
• Bike New York
PRESIDENTS EMERITI
Mark Bilski
Leora Kahn
Mimi Lieber
DIRECTORS
Jonathan Alter
Mark Babyatsky
Elizabeth Bergstein
Louis Berkowitz
Sharon Cohen
Ronald Elton
Peter Friedmann
Peggy Heine
Elinor Heller
Susan Jacobson
Benjamin Jaffe
Helen Kober
Lini Lipton
Zeva Oelbaum
Heidi Rieger
Elizabeth Shamir
Eve Stieglitz
Caron Trakman
Betti Weimersheimer
HONORARY DIRECTORS
Berthold Bilski
Seth Glickenhaus
Charles Grodin
Max Liebmann
Eric Mayer
Doris Schechter
Margit Ulrich
Albert Wojnilower
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Masha Pearl
The Blue Card, Inc.
The Blue Card, Inc.
171 Madison Avenue, Suite 1405
New York, NY 10016
212.239.2251
info@bluecardfund.org
171 Madison Avenue, Suite 1405
New York, NY 10016
212.239.2251
info@bluecardfund.org
Meet Emily K.
The Blue Card’s 2013 Grants at a Glance
one of The Blue Card’s clients
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1. Monthly Stipend
$434,000
2. Dental Care
$421,000
3. Telephone Emergency Response
$230,000
4. Emergency Cash Assistance
$253,000
5. Jewish Holiday Grant
$153,000
6. Birthday Program
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$19,000
9. Fighting Cancer Together Program
$56,000
10. Summer Vacation
$21,000
11. Vitamin Program
$8,000
Total Grants:
$1,870,000
Emergency Cash Assistance Program: provides for survivors’ most immediate
needs by helping with the cost of medicine, rent, food and other essentials.
The Holocaust Survivor Emergency Cash Assistance Program is partially
funded by the Claims Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Dental Program: named after Curt C. and Else Silberman, provides
much-needed funding for dental care, especially crucial at the time of
federal budget cuts.
Stipend Program: supports the most poverty stricken survivors with monthly
checks.
Jewish Holiday Program: provides $200 for the High Holidays, $200 for
Hanukkah and $200 for Passover, giving survivors the financial means to enjoy
a happier holiday season.
The Summer Vacation Program: named after Adolph and Lotte Rosenberg,
offers an expense-paid summer vacation program to needy survivors in the
New York area. Survivors are provided with handicapped accessible
accommodations, transportation, scheduled meals, and a well-planned
itinerary for a break from city life, making the program structured, safe, and
group-oriented.
The Emergency Response Program: named after Jakob Mogilnik, provides the
alert system to Holocaust survivors who do not have the financial resources to
pay for installation, service, and maintenance. The system is programmed to be
in the survivor’s native language e.g. Yiddish, German, Russian, Hungarian, etc.
In case of an emergency such as a fall, a simple press of a neck or wrist button
activates an automated speakerphone. The operator answers in the survivor’s
native language and immediately dispatches required assistance.
Mazel Tov Birthday Program: provides survivors with a check and a card on
their birthday.
After the war, she tried to pick up the pieces and worked as an editor of school
textbooks in Ukraine. However, in 1980, she decided that moving to a new country might help the healing process and so, she came to the United States at age
64, with little knowledge of English. New to the country and not speaking the
language, Emily supported herself by babysitting and rebuilt her life making a
second home on the Upper West side of Manhattan, where she found a community of friends and neighbors.
As with most people, aging has unfortunately given rise to many medical
problems including cancer, depression, a hip replacement, severe dental
problems and a condition leading to the need for a pacemaker. The Blue Card has
helped Emily with all of these challenges by way of payment of medical expenses,
dental work and medication, as well as offering much needed emotional support.
8. Bring A Smile
The Blue Card’s Clients Across the United States
Within two weeks of the escape, Emily sadly learned that more than 11,000
Jews from Khmilnyk were shot and killed. She lived in a labor camp for the last
two years of the war.
One of the things that sustained her during the desperate times of persecution
and still does so today, is her love of music and practicing the mandolin. Like
many Holocaust survivors, she fled her homeland as an accomplished artist and
still plays and performs today, so many years later.
$55,000
$220,000
7. Homecare
Emily was born in the small town of Khmilnyk in western Ukraine in January of
1917. Khmilnyk was captured by the Germans in 1941. She was only 24 years old
in the winter of 1942 when the Nazis and Ukrainian police came for her family. Her
handicapped brother along with their parents were shot in front of her when the
SS entered their home. Along with many others from her village, she was marched
to a death camp in the forest at the edge of town. Unsure of her ethnicity, the
Germans briefly allowed Emily and her young son to leave, but quickly after the
release, a local officer recognized them. As that officer searched for them, Emily
got on her hands and knees so she could crawl through the forest. Carrying her
son under the back of her shirt, she somehow managed to get away.
Description of The Blue Card’s Programs
Vitamins Program: provides Holocaust survivors with multivitamins, minerals,
supplements, protein drinks (diabetic and non-diabetic).
Bring-a-Smile Program: named after Sonia and Max Lonstein, offers special
support for terminally ill Holocaust survivors. The program provides resources
for survivors to realize a final experience or wish.
Charitable Standing
The “Fighting Cancer Together” Program: named after Siggi B. Wilzig, assists
Holocaust survivors suffering from cancer with medical copays,
transportation, nutrition and support group services.
The Blue Card-Lissner Hospital Visitation Program: offers volunteer visits to
hospitalized Holocaust survivors who need guidance and emotional support.
The Nutritional Guidance Program: named after Rita Berkowitz, provides
monthly food stipends and nutritional supplements. It also educates
participants on proper nutrition.
2015 Team Blue Card Bike Tour Application
To qualify for Team Blue Card, please fill out and return the application at your earliest
convenience.
Please note that application does not guarantee acceptance.
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of team of The Blue Card, including pre-event training and related event activities
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