For over 7,500 elderly and new immigrants residing in Amigour residential facilities, Amigour is not just a building, but a true home. It is a place where they feel safe, nourished and loved. Join the Amigour family On and help us provide ’s elderly Dignity with a dignified future. and Survival

Providing a safe and affordable home for Israel’s elderly

12 Kaplan Street, Tel Aviv 64734, Israel Tel: +972-3-693-0243 “Abandon me not when I grow old” Proverbs 71:9 Fax: +972-3-693-0203 ” E-mail: [email protected] www. amigour.com אל תשליכני לעת זקנה“ תהילים עא, פסוק ט Amigour Meet the Overview People

Amigour, established in 1972, is a non-profit company and a subsidiary of the Jewish Agency Semion Rosenfeld

Amigour operates 57 sheltered housing projects throughout Israel Semion, one of the leaders of the uprising in the Sobibor death camp, fought in the Red Army and was among the liberators of Berlin. In 1990, The majority of the 7,500 residents in Amigour are Holocaust Semion made with his family to Israel. survivors and new immigrants from the Former Soviet Union

Each Amigour home has a professional staff including a social worker, house mother, social coordinator and director Tatiana Goverman-Lasker Amigour provides a wide variety of social and cultural services Tatiana was born in Kodma, Odessa. There, at the that enhance the quality of life of its residents age of seven, she witnessed the atrocities of and managed to survive the Tsetselnik Many Amigour facilities are in need of major internal and Ghetto, in the Ukraine. external renovations

There are 30,000 elderly immigrants that still lack appropriate housing solutions and are on a waiting list Tova Adler Tova, at the age of 14 arrived in Auschwitz, she Amigour’s choirs perform nationwide made her way to Israel in 1946 and was arrested and taken to the Detainee Camp. “Preserving the Memories” - Amigour gathered 1,000 testimonials from its Holocaust survivor residents, compiled them into 50 volumes, and entered them into the Yad Vashem Archives for posterity Jackie Shemayev Amigour receives funding for existing projects from the Israeli A Prisoner of Zion, Jackie helped Jews escape from Syria. He was subsequently caught Government, the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, the and tortured until he was eventually released and Claims Conference, Keren Hayesod, Federations, Foundations escaped to the Promised Land. and personal donors