Schancupp Joins Teachers for Holocaust Program

The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous (JFR) has selected 12 middle and high school teachers and Holocaust center personnel from five U.S. states to participate in its 2025 European Study Program in the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark. Through lectures and visits to actual Holocaust sites, these educators gained a more profound understanding of the complex and tragic history of the Holocaust.

Among those educators is Judy Schancupp of the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust in Sandy Springs. The program is a high-level, intensive and immersive educational experience that includes visits to concentration camps, ghetto sites, and Holocaust memorials. Noted historian Robert Jan van Pelt, one of the world’s leading experts on the Holocaust, served as the accompanying scholar for the European Study Program.

The immersive program began in Amsterdam where the group toured the Portuguese Synagogue, the Jewish History Museum, the Dutch Holocaust Museum, the Hollandsche Schouwburg, the Anne Frank House, the Frank family home and the Resistance Museum. They then traveled to the Felix-Nussbaum-Haus and Bergen Belsen concentration camp before traveling to Flensburg, the home of the last Nazi Government; the Froeslev concentration camp; Gilleleje; Ramlosabrunn; Malmo; Ryvangen; Nivaa; Copenhagen and many other cities.

The 2025 European Study Lerner Fellows include:
Amy McDonald of the Alabama Holocaust Education Center in Birmingham, Ala.
Maureen Carter of the Boca Raton Community High School in Boca Raton, Fla.
Risa Della Rocca of the Spanish River Community High School in Boca Raton, Fla.
Julie Gates of Logger’s Run Middle School in Boca Raton, Fla.
Krystal Lamb of Dr. Joaquin Garcia High School in Lake Worth, Fla.
Charles Hagy, Jr. of The Benjamin School in North Palm Beach, Fla.
Sheri Crowley of Polo Park Middle School in Wellington, Fla.
Kimberly Coombs of the School District of Palm Beach County in West Palm Beach Fla.
Bradd Weinberg of the School District of Palm Beach County in West Palm Beach, Fla.
Judy Schancupp of the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust in Sandy Springs, Ga.
Alicia Booker of Lakota West High School in West Chester Township, Ohio
Stacy Steele of Lancaster High School in Lancaster, S.C.

The JFR continues its work of providing monthly financial assistance to 73 aged and needy Righteous Gentiles living in 10 countries. Since its founding, the JFR has provided more than $46 million to aged and needy rescuers. Its Holocaust teacher education program has become a standard for teaching the history of the Holocaust and educating teachers and students about the significance of the Righteous as moral and ethical exemplars. For more information, visit https://www.jfr.org/.