A Proposal for a Service Network for Holocaust Survivors

Publication Date: June 1999

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Myra Giberovitch

Research Area: Culture and religion; Social conditions

Keywords: Trauma; Social Services; Elderly

Type: Report

Abstract:

As a community, we have the responsibility to make the last stage of elderly Holocaust survivors' lives as comfortable as possible. A partnership between social service agencies in the establishment of a service network for Holocaust survivors would be an innovative response to their unique needs. This service network would have the following components: social groups, a centralized system for information and referral, outreach, support and discussion groups, educational programs, a home stimulation program, and an intergenerational oral history project.

In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, v.75 no.4, Summer 1999.