
Humanitarian Response
When conflict or disaster strikes, we respond immediately through local partners, providing people and communities with life-saving assistance.
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Donate TodayOn October 7th, 2023, Israel was struck by a horrific and devastating terrorist attack by Hamas. In the aftermath, we have been providing trauma support to thousands of Israelis. And the suffering continues as missiles continue to be fired into the country and sirens ring through the night.
We work with local partners across the globe to share expertise and respond to emergencies.
When conflict or disaster strikes, we respond immediately through local partners, providing people and communities with life-saving assistance.
We support Jewish communities in crisis worldwide, including Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Poland, Russia, Belarus, Uganda, Ethiopia, and Israel, with a focus on older Jews of the Survivor Generation.
Through job-specific skills training and mentorship, we enable people to transform their earning potential, recover their livelihoods and gain independence.
Inspired by our heritage, we support thousands of refugees across the whole of the UK with employment and integration.
Supported 142,142 people
Worked in 21 countries
Worked with 100 partners across the world
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February we have been supporting our 29 partners across the country as they do everything they can to protect their communities in the face of active conflict.
The earthquake caused damage across Myanmar and neighbouring Thailand, with tremors felt as far as Bangkok. Donate today and help communities that have been devastated by these deadly earthquakes.
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World Jewish Relief was established as the Central British Fund for German Jewry in 1933 to help refugees from Nazi-Europe, and we succeeded in bringing around 65,000 Jewish refugees to safety.
We have names of over 315,000 people who contacted us for help, as well as records for the 65,000 refugees we supported throughout the 1930s and 1940s.
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On October 7th, 2023, Israel was struck by a horrific and devastating terrorist attack by Hamas. On this day, everything changed for Israel and for Jews across the world. Over 1,200 people were murdered, and more than 240 people were taken hostage, many of whom continue to suffer in captivity. They must be reunited with their families immediately. Beyond Israel’s borders, horrific recent attacks in the US, rising antisemitism across world, and the continued suffering of our friends, families and loved ones in Israel.
Written by Dr Amy Williams.
The World Jewish Relief (WJR) archive is a vital resource for helping me locate Kindertransport lists. Not all the families know their relatives’ Kindertransport number or the exact date of their travel. This information is found within the WJR files. The Kindertransport lists are yet to be made digitally searchable, so everything at the moment is done by hand, so I have to manually search through the material. However, if I know the name of the Kindertransport refugee, their Kindertransport number, and their date of departure or arrival I can find their lists within minutes.
Paul Anticoni, World Jewish Relief’s Chief Executive, awarded OBE in King’s Birthday Honours List. In his 19 years leading World Jewish Relief, Paul has grown the organisation and its impact exponentially. Now working in 21 countries and supporting more than 140,000 people in the last year alone, World Jewish Relief, under Paul’s leadership, is leading humanitarian efforts on behalf of the Jewish community.
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, we welcomed our Royal Patron, His Majesty King Charles III, to the Jewish Community Centre of Krakow (JCC Krakow) to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.