The work of the international organization has included assisting Jews in nearly 50 countries, increasingly in technological fields.
Five years later, she was awarded the Order of Canada in recognition for her volunteer work assisting women and Jews.
HIAS assists Jews and other groups of people whose lives and freedom are believed to be at risk to relocate.
Bernhard Lichtenberg died while under arrest, the Bishop appointed her to head his diocesan office for assisting Jews.
Poles from the Aryan side found assisting Jews in obtained food were subject to the death penalty.
It was founded in 1944 to assist young Jews who came back from concentration camps or, more generally, who had escaped the Holocaust.
Restorationism was a way for charitable individuals to assist oppressed Jews without actually accepting them as neighbors and fellow-citizens.
The move sparked greater Catholic resistance and thousands of priests, nuns and lay people acted to assist French Jews.
Mr. Dear set up the foundation to assist Jews in the Soviet Union.
They assist Jews with all their religious needs, as well as with physical assistance and spiritual guidance and teaching.