Center for Holocaust Survivors
We provide local Holocaust survivors a supportive community and extensive care.
Jewish Family Service offers eligible Holocaust survivors person-centered and trauma-informed care management. Our support includes home visits and help at home, restitution assistance, counseling and referrals, social activities, hearing tests, financial assistance for medical care and prescription drugs, transportation assistance, and more.
We are active: participants enjoy a wide variety of activities—such as art, music, lectures, and exercise.
We socialize: We schmooze. Programs include regular social gatherings to celebrate a holiday, do a project, or just enjoy each other.
We are accessible and online: We do many programs virtually to reduce isolation, welcome in more people and more speakers, and allow for international connections, including with other Holocaust survivors.
"I would like to express my deepest gratitude to the JFS employees, thanks to whom we can attend and participate in various events. Their care, attention, and, not least, providing transportation allows us, the elderly, not to be cut off from life. And how did they organize our visit to the Music Hall?! I enjoyed not only the opera, but I also saw such happy faces of those who, like me, were able to attend this event. I really hope that JFS will continue to have the opportunity to give us the opportunity to communicate."
—Center for Holocaust Survivors participant
The fall before the first anniversary of October 7, our Holocaust survivors group wrote a letter to local Jewish students fighting antisemitism on campus. A representative group read this letter to the broader community at Adath Israel at the commemoration one year after October 7.
On September 27, 2024, Cincinnati's Holocaust survivors shared a message of courage and Jewish pride in the face of antisemitism with a group of Cincinnati Hillel students.
Video from WCPO 9.
Supporters:
Social services for Nazi victims have been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
The Conference recognizes a Holocaust survivor as an individual who was persecuted as a Jew in Germany, Austria, or any other country occupied by the Nazis or their Axis allies between the years of 1933-1945, including Jews who emigrated from those countries after the persecution began and before liberation of that specific country, in addition to suffering recognized persecution. (Please contact Jewish Family Service or the Claims Conference for further details).
This service is supported by a grant from the Center on Aging and Trauma of the Jewish Federations of North America.
Our services are available for all Jewish Holocaust survivors, but receiving some of the services for free may be limited to financially and/or physically vulnerable Jewish Nazi victims.
Jewish Family Service programs and services for older adults, including Holocaust survivors, receive funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati, the Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati, United Way of Greater Cincinnati, Council on Aging of Southwestern Ohio, The Bahmann Foundation, and the Center on Aging and Trauma of the Jewish Federations of North America. Jewish Family Service is a member agency of the Network of Jewish Human Service Agencies.
OUR LOCATIONS
Jewish Family Service
9395 Kenwood Road, Suite 100
Cincinnati, OH 45242
Hours: Monday - Friday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Heldman Family Food Pantry &
Barbash Family Vital Support Center
3113 Clifton Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45220
Hours: By appointment only
JFS Help Line: (513) 469-1188
General Fax: (513) 766-3358
