Never Forget Campaign: Donor Listings

We extend our utmost gratitude to the many generous contributors to the Never Forget Campaign to build a new JFCS Holocaust Center. You are ensuring that the lessons of history are preserved, and shared, for generations to come.

This list reflects gifts made to the Never Forget Holocaust Center Capital Campaign as of December 31, 2025.

If you have any questions about your name recognition, please contact us at donate@jfcs.org or 415-449-1256.

FOUNDERS

Gerson Bakar Foundation
California State Library
Harold Greene
Eleonore L. Gruenebaum
Koret Foundation
Koum Family Foundation
Libitzky Family Foundation

Hilda & Manfred Namm
Joseph & Eda Pell and Family
Shorenstein Family
Taube Family
The Laszlo N. Tauber Family Foundation
The Nancy P. and Richard K. Robbins Family Foundation

PATRONS

Anonymous
George & Mimi Elbaum
Lisa & John Geisse Family
Herbst Foundation

Marla Miller & David Kremer
John Osterweis
Daniel & Zoe Scheinman

BENEFACTORS

Sandra M. Bullitt
Vibeke & Ed Lichtman
Joyce Newstat & Susan Lowenberg & Ruth Dreisbach
Debra R. Schoenberg

Richard Segal & Dorothy Connelly
Valli Benesch & Bob Tandler
Dan & Gina Waldman and Family

BUILDERS

Anonymous
Pam & Larry Baer
Agnes & Kurt Guen
Fred Levin
Connie & Bob Lurie
Emily & James Scheinman

Sally & Jim Shapiro Family
Friend Family Foundation
John Levin/The Jay and Rose Phillips Family Foundation of California
Michael Waldman
Norman Weil, Nancy Weil Price & Nina Weil

PRESIDENT’S CIRCLE

Barbara & Ron Kaufman
LSP Family Foundation

Sidney Samuels
Neuwirth Swire Family

EUREKA SOCIETY

Anonymous
Dana & Robert Blum
Mary E. Claugus
Judy & Harry Cohn
Carl & Gay Grunfeld
Holmes Family
Michael Hulton
Geraldine & Jack Kabak
Zoe & Stephen Schwartz

Laura & Gary Lauder
Rita & Art Levinson
Dave & Gina Pell
Liz & Avidan Ross
Lida & Kaveh Soofer
Laura Talmus & Ace Smith
Seligman Family Foundation
Yermack Family

COMMUNITY BUILDERS

Riva & David Berelson
Irina Berkon & Lenny Semis
Bernstein Daccarett Family
Sandra & Conrad Donner
Lionel Engelman
Sam Ennis
Elliott Felson
Susan & Jonathan Golovin
Gary Haber & Barbara Luttig-Haber
Eve & Vernon Heyman
Judy & Robert Huret
Emil Knopf
Bonnie Lasky


Kerri & Mark Lehmann
Kira Makagon & Alexander Beilin
Linda Himelstein & Michael Rolnick
Erica Wilner Rosenblatt & Andrew Rosenblatt
Renee & William Rothmann
Tara & David Schwarzbach
Marlene G. (Keyak) Smith & Dr. Joyce H. Keyak
Leslie Snyder
Sandra L. Strauss Stern & Jon L. Stern
Laura Scher & Ian Altman
Charlotte & Robert Uram

PIONEER SOCIETY

Anonymous
Susan Alexander
Claire Axelrad & Mark Pahlavan
Rachel Balchum & Hooman D. Behravan
Noam & Lisa Bardin
Frank & Lee Battat
Shirley & Steven Berman
Eve Bernstein & Alex Gersznowicz
Helen Bulwik
Linda & Daniel Cooperman
Susan & Michael Dab
Natasha Diamond
Dana Doctorow & Dan Stellenberg
Marci & Marc Dollinger
Susan & David Dossetter
Racheli Duffy
Sophia Far
Barbara & Jeff Farber
Jenna & Steven Feinberg
Howard Felson
Toby & Philip Flax and Family
Muriel Fox
Caryn Fried & Wayne Reynolds
Zhenya & Yury Friedman
Lynn & Claude Ganz Family
Diane Parish & Paul Gelburd
Barbara Gleichenhaus
Sara Okman
Vivian & Sandy Golden
Jeff & Judy Gottesman
Sara & David Green
Rochelle D. Alpert & Steven F. Greenwald
Susie & Alan Greinetz
Brian A. Gross
Marsha & Ralph Guggenheim
Mikhail Guz & Larisa Margulis
Lorraine & Steven Harris
Shelley & John Hebert
Heruty Family
Mel & Jody Heyman
Deborah & Craig Hoffman
Jennifer & Eitan Homa
Judith Wolfe & Jennifer Hughes
Hillary Weingast & Jeff Hyman
Alex Ingersoll & Martin Tannenbaum
Sheila Janakos
Kaganovsky Family
Rabbi Doug & Ellen Kahn
Leslie Kalman
Kelsey, Jonathan & Emilio Kaplan
Ilya & Natalya Karshtedt
Rena Kay
Arthur Keller

Kate Lipman & David Kiachko
Julia & Mark Klebanov
Jodi Klein
Allen Samelson
Dr. Elliot Liff
Sharon L. Litsky & John F. Sampson
Shanah & Mitchell Liverant
Mary R. Martin
Lucia Matzger
Lori Eisenberg McBride & Dennis McBride
Ernest J. McNabb Jr.
David & Stephanie Mendelsohn
Harry Meyer
Jane & Michael Miller
Marina Portnova & Sergei Morkovine and Family
Morse Family Foundation
Dena Myers
Gail & Bernard Nebenzahl
Steve Polsky & Mark Oliver
Lea & Allen Orwitz
Susan Percal
Deborah Raucher
Connie Levi & Alan Robin
Esther Rosha-Stadtler & Sander Stadtler
Alison & Kenneth Ross
Manshel Rusitzky Family
Schachter Family
Andrea Schloss
Adrienne & Norman Schlossberg
Deborah & Laurence Stadtner
R. Howard Steiermann
Vera & Harold S. Stein
Esta Swig
Thomas & Eva Szepesi
Catherine & Sam Teitelbaum
Richard Thalheimer Family
Luba Troyanovsky
Natalie Kriegel & Alex Varum
Lois Wander
Ann & John Wathen
Melanie Polin & Mitch Waxman
Adrienne Weil & David Weil
Barbara Weinberg
Marion Weinreb
Zaffy & Denis Welch
Nancy Wiltsek & Gregory Mendez
Yamilee Bermingham & Douglas Winthrop
Ryan & Ilana Withop
Betsy & Paul Zeger
Jonathan Zimman & Glenn Roberts
Arta Zygielbaum

TZEDAKAH CIRCLE

Anonymous
Kate Aks
Robin Allen
Jeff Appleman
Lilka & Thomas Areton
Rachel & Jonathan Aspatore
Brenda Austin
Jeffrey Auman
Bobbi & Marty Bach
Judy Wellisch & Ramon Balagot
Maggie Bardacke
Joseph Barrett
Erin & Brett Baucom
Rosyland & Bob Bauer
Wendy Bear & Jennifer Ottolini
Sherrie & Frank Bell
Frances & Alan Bennett
Noah Berenberg
Judy & Marty Berg
Nancy Berger-Granet & Scott Granet
Diane & Jeffry Bernstein
Gail Bogetz-Gelb
Michelle Booth & Alystar Sacks
Regina & Vladimir Boshernitsan
Louis Boudreau & Randall Heilbrunn
Dolores & Jerome Braun
Claudia Bravo & Alan Silverman
Emilie Bromet-Bauer
Lloyd Brown & Barbara Salinger-Brown
Ray, Ann, Jeff & Jared Brown
Steven Brown
Mary Ann Brownstein
Gertrude & Joseph Burger
Anna Burke
Lana Burstein
Robert Cahn
Ivor & Sheryl Caro
Aimee & David Casella
Bella Center
Rabbi Shana Chandler & Andrew Henry
Andrea Chertoff
Beth Cohen
Mindy Gerson & Jeffrey Cohen
Rachel Cohen Dahms
Sabina & Andrew Cohen
Miriam C. Perlson-Cohn & Fred Cohn
Lanier Coles & Charlton Yu
Susie & Sandra Coliver
Binay Curtis
Sophia De Anda
Clifford Detz
Jay Dicker
Adel Dikshteyn
Maxine & Mark Drexler
Alan & Tali Dukor
Madelaine A. Eaton
Charlotte Edinboro
Sandra Edwards
Michael Ehrenzweig
Col. Deborah Dacumos & Mr. Kenneth Eisen
Mark Erenstein
Joseph Feiner
Ann & Joseph Filous
Slava & Michael Finkelstein
Alla & Boris Fishkin
Stan and Ann Forman
Terri Forman
Allison & Chris Fragakis
Allison & Marc Frank
Victor Frenklakh
Gary Freund
John & Barbara Friedman
Leslie Friedman
Maya Frohlichman
Jonathan Funk & John Arnold
Nancie & Sandy Garfinkel
Mimi Gauss
Nina Gerson
Samuel Gerson & Shelley Nathans
Dennis Geyer
Deborah Gilden
Barchi Gillai
Carolyn Glaser
Susan & Richard Goldwasser
Dan Goncher
Vivian Gottheiner
Mary & John Grace
Naomi Green
Reggie Griner
Melanie Grossman
Susen Y. Grossman
Allyson Gwozdz
Jill Lerner Hallinan
Judi Gitin-Elman Harris & Gordon Harris
Elaine Hausman
The Hechtman Family
Cheryl Anton & Eric Helfenbein
Steve Hibshman
Alice Hirsch
Tony Hyams
Eli Isaacs
Elizabeth & Eric Isaacs
Leslie & Steve Isaacs
Phyllis Isaacson
Dina & Neil Jacobson
Alison Jacoby & Vanessa Teplin
Judi Jaeger
Jane James
Josephine Kamin
Joyce Stern Kanyuk
Susan Karp
Edie Bushell
Rachel Ryskin & Daniel Katz
Julie Kaufman
Alissa Merksamer & Robert Kaufman
Deborah & Scott Kay
Tali Klima
Norman R. Klivans
Ellen Konar
Dena Koren
Erik Kriens
Liliane Kuhn
Anda Kuo & Michael Shlipak
Jacob Lalezari
Berkowitz Lavinghouse Family
Marina Lazarevsky & Sergey Lazarevskiy
Laela Leavy
Richard Leder & Cherrill Spencer
Melissa & Jae Lee
Paisha & Marvin E. Lehrman
Naomi & Rob Leonard
Kathy & Jerry Lehrman

Sheri Levey
Jon & Diane Levinson
Daniel & Jennifer Levy
Ruth Levy
Lisa Li
Marla Becker & Daniel Lipton
Robbin Mashbein & Steve Lipton
Lloyd Lunianski
David Mandel
Malinda Marcus
Irina & Mark Markovsky
Laura Marquit
Alain & Julie Mayer
Maryanne McGlothlin & William Tong
Maximillian Mead
Victor Melamed
Stephanie Mendel
Jessica Mendels
Elaine Michaud & Charles Stott
Vadim Milman & Jon Kastrup
Judi Missel
Debra Charlesworth & Mark Nagel
Rochelle Barlas Nagel & Michael Nagel
Robin Nedzi
Sarah & Max Neiman
Peter Neubauer
Oberrotman Family
Kathryn Orfirer
Aviva Orner
Donna Ornitz
Alice Wald & Paul Overmyer
Margaret Park
Joyce Pavlovsky
Blake Taylor
Rachel Perkel & Shawn Becker
Joyce Perkins
Lynne Piade
Richard Pieters
Elizabeth Pimentel & Michael Holoszyc
Lawrence Polon
Evelyn Posamentier
Katherine Powell Cohen
Sarah Prensky-Pomeranz
Eva & Leon Rajninger
Nancy & Jerry Rauch
Deborah & John Rego
Joshua Remba
Sean Reyes
Susan Richter
Jeannette Ringold
Elisabeth Roberts
David Rolandelli & Mildred Alvarez
Deborah S. Rose
Clark Rosen
Howard Rothenberg
George & Gail Rothman
Ilene & Hugh Rothman
Susan Rothstein
Steven Rotter
Ulli Rotzscher
Fran Rubenstein
Gail Ruder
Luba Kipnis & David Russel
Fern & Daniel Ruth
Danielle Ruymaker
Sally Samuels
Dorothy Saxe
Jo Ann & George Schapiro
Isabel Schein
Eva Schlesinger
Nathan Schor
Mary Schroeder
Eva Seligman-Kennard
Carol Perry & Larry Shapiro
David M. Kramer
Katrina Sherman
Sonya Penn & Ross Siegel
Janet Silberman
Andrea Silverstein
Sadie Simon
Patricia Caplan & Jonathan Simonoff
Lisa Singer
Zena & Michael Sklyar
Joe Slamovich
Patti & David Smilovitz
Janet & Michael Smith-Heimer
Svetlana Sogolova
David & Debra Sokolsky
Lisa & Glenn Solomon
Liliana Soroceanu
Aleksandra Soykin
Alan Stein
Karen Steinberg
Anna & Vladimir Stepanenko
Allie Stern
Courtney Stern
Gordon Stewart
Ronna Stone
Judy Rackin Swartz
Leah Swiler
Shelley Tarnoff
Ed Taub
Sheila Teplin
Constance Turner
Marilyn Wachtel
Julia B. Wall
Kimen & Robert Warner
Phyllis Wedvick
K. Weil
Stuart Weil
Beth & Dan Weisberg
Larry Weisgal & Debbie Tully
Lorraine Weiss
Carol Weitz
Wellner Joskowitz Family
Siddharth Wighe & Chie Okada-Wighe
Lorene Wilk
Jeanette Wilkin
Marcia & Don Wilson
Caryn & Ben Wiseman
Garett Wisesan
Lory Wiviott & Suzy Wiviott
JEWISHJOY.co
Tzippi & Ariel Zach
Caren Zelicof
Rob Zides
Linda Zimmerman
Miriam & Richard Zimmerman
Mollee Sue & Jack Zoken
Alla Zvonkina
Sharon Zweiter

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