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The project consists of three components: academic courses on the
Holocaust
, weekly visits by a student with a Holocaust survivor, and
academic enrichment to help the student
understand the specific
experiences of his or her new friend. Affiliate organizations get a unique
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The settlements
are designated to pay Holocaust
-related insurance claims and for
Holocaust related humanitarian purposes. "More often than not, they
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of the attic. Personal photos can adorn the
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Coinciding with the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the
liberation of the Auschwitz
concentration camp on January 27, 1945,
this unique program matches university students with Holocaust
survivors in the Miami area in order to ensure that the memory of the
Holocaust and the courage
of the survivors are kept alive through this
encounter across generations.
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The University of Miami project is a pilot for a national program
that is being contemplated
for other cities which have a willing
university and a significant population of Holocaust survivors
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ICHEIC was the first organization ever to offer Holocaust victims
and their heirs an avenue to
pursue a claim against an insurance
company at no cost. The result is a
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/2 x 11" full-color Little League MemoryBook with the
player's photo on the cover, professionally
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The ICHEIC Service Corps program
is a pilot project of the Miller
Center at the University of Miami and is sponsored by the
International
Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims (ICHEIC),
in partnership with Hillel: The Foundation
for Jewish Campus Life, and
the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, Inc.
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on how to help meet the needs of elderly survivors.
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Jud Rogers, senior marketing executive of Little League
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National Service Project for Holocaust Survivors Launched on Anniversary
of Auschwitz Liberation; University of Miami Selected for Pilot Project
----A national
pilot project
providing student support to aging Holocaust survivors
will be launched at the University of Miami
's Sue and Leonard Miller
Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies on January 31, 2005. Eagleburger
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with funds from settlements paid by insurance companies that held the
insurance policies of some
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" Several
festive gatherings have been organized
for the survivors and their
student friends at holiday time. Eugene Rothman, project coordinator
and a Senior Visiting
Fellow at the University, explains that "the key to the success of
this
project is the building of bridges across generations, between
Jewish community agencies and, most
important of all, between the past
and the future.
SharedBook Inc. Through the use of
patent
-pending web technology, users can access a website where they can
add their photos and comments to
other photos and stories contributed by
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The program has led to extensive informal
contacts between
students and their survivor friends that are beginning to go beyond
the program
, and in the words of one student, "This will probably be
the most significant experience of my university
career. Students have taken their survivor
friends to synagogue services. It,
together with a
similar project in New York City, was initiated by
ICHEIC, chaired by former Secretary of State,
Lawrence S. For the first time ever, parents can combine their own digital
photos with stories and
photos provided by Little League to create a
personalized, full-color book for their child.ones loved
The Commission
was created as a means of
addressing the gaps and shortfalls of postwar compensation programs of
the 1950s and 1960s and was intended to provide an opportunity for
thousands of Holocaust victims
and their heirs to submit claims for
the first time.ones commemorate
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Their visits are
coordinated by the Jewish
Community Services of South Florida.
To give parents, coaches, and players a more
lasting way
to capture the magical memories of the 2005 season, Little
League International and SharedBook have
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To date ICHEIC has awarded approximately $110 million
to
claimants and is, through other philanthropic programs, working to
bring aid to Survivors around
the world. There
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One can start
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