Met Council receives grant to help Holocaust survivors
There are 32,914 Holocaust survivors currently living in Brooklyn, according to officials at the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, who said the agency is now in a good position to help the survivors of Nazi oppression live out their golden years in dignity.
The Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, a nonprofit agency also known as the Met Council, has received a grant from the Jewish Federations of North America through the Center for Advancing Holocaust Survivor Care.
The Jewish Federations of North America launched the Center for Advancing Holocaust Survivor Care in the fall of 2015, following an award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which bestowed $12 million to be used by organizations around the country to come up with innovative programs to serve Holocaust survivors.