New Jersey doubles state allocation for Holocaust survivors

State’s Jewish Family Service agencies to receive $400,000 to serve survivors as part of ‘Grants in Aid’ allocation

By JTA 20 July 2015, 3:45 am

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A Holocaust survivor shows his prisoner number tattooed on his arm. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

New Jersey has doubled the allocation in its state budget for Holocaust survivors.

The state’s Jewish Family Service agencies will receive $400,000 in the new fiscal year to serve Holocaust survivors as part of a “Grants in Aid” allocation, the New Jersey Jewish News reported.

The allocation announced earlier this month brings the three-year total to $1 million in state funding for services to New Jersey’s 4,700 Holocaust survivors, according to the newspaper.

The additional funding will provide survivors with 11,000 hours of home care service, 3,000 meals, and 1,500 hours of case work and social service needs management, according to the New Jersey Jewish News.

“We are grateful to Gov. Chris Christie and the legislature for once more recognizing, in a bipartisan way, that the concerns of Holocaust survivors are unique because of what they have been through, and because their vulnerabilities at this age are increasing and are real,” Mark Levenson, president of the New Jersey State Association of Jewish Federations, said in a statement.