Righteous (JFR). The organization provides financial support “to
aged and needy non-Jews who rescued Jews during the Holocaust
and preserves their legacy through a national education program.”
“The sample invitation for what we were looking at had the
blurb about the JFR and my mother and I read it and we instantly
knew that was kind of what we wanted to do for my project,” re-
called Noah, a Garnet Valley Middle School student.

Through JFR’s Bar/Bat Mitzvah program, participants are
“twinned” with a righteous gentile who hid and thereby saved Jews
during the Holocaust. Noah was twinned in October 2016 with
Wladyslawa Dudziak, whose family hid and saved Rozia “Rose”
Bieman in Poland.

He developed a relationship with JFR Executive Vice President
Stanlee J. Stahl who, in November 2016, invited Noah to the JFR’s
annual gala in New York to recite the Motzi.

“It felt very special to be able to be part of Justin Oser with one
of the puppies at
the twinning program with the JFR and it felt Dog Town Rescue.

extra special to be one of the chosen people to PHOTO PROVIDED
sing the Motzi at the dinner that kind of cele-
brates the great deeds that the righteous people made during the
“It made it more memorable due to my Bar Mitzvah project, and
Holocaust,” Noah said.

having the woman who was saved by the righteous to come and
He began fundraising for the organization, launching a GoFundMe
witness my Bar Mitzvah really felt good,” Noah said.

effort with the goal of raising $18,000 in honor of chai, and correspond-
For Debra Goldstein, there were no coincidences with this project.

ing with Rose Bieman and her family, including husband Micha Golan
Prior to leaving for Israel, Noah’s school had an assembly in
and four children. The story about Noah’s project and link to his Go-
which a Holocaust survivor who was saved by a righteous gentile,
FundMe can also be found on the JFR’s homepage.

Ruth Kapp Hartz, spoke about Stacy Cretzmeyer’s book about her,
They belong to Congregation Beth Emeth in Wilmington, Del.,
Your Name is Renée.

but his Bar Mitzvah took place at Robinson’s Arch in front of the
The luncheon after Noah’s Bar Mitzvah was held at Confedera-
Western Wall in Israel. That’s a significant place for his Bar Mitzvah
tion House in Jerusalem, which they later learned was founded by
as Debra Goldstein’s late father, Herschel Israel Frankel, is buried
Kalman Sultanik, who survived several concentration camps and
on Har HaZeitim — and he was joined by some special guests.

was a former vice president of the World Jewish Congress.

In addition to his family, Noah became a Bar Mitzvah before
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Rose and her family.

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