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Ukraine Crisis: Our Impact in Numbers

55,500+
vulnerable Jews in Ukraine have received assistance since the start of the crisis
38,400+
vulnerable Jews are receiving ongoing emergency aid, like food, medicine, homecare, and evacuation services
40,000+
refugees were provided vital necessities such as food, medicine, and psychosocial aid
*As of February 2025

Ukraine Emergency: Voices from the Ground

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Our Essential Work Continues:

  • Providing the most vulnerable Jews in Ukraine with vital necessities like food and medicine, as well as deploying winter survival aid — delivering portable heaters, cooking stoves, and subsidies for high utility bills. This response encompasses thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and those who have returned after fleeing the country.
  • Addressing the needs of Ukraine’s “new poor,” resulting from skyrocketing inflation and a lack of employment opportunities.
  • Strengthening and fostering connection among Ukraine’s Jewish community through dynamic cultural and educational programming for all ages and significant volunteer engagement.
  • Providing educational and emotional support for children through in-person and online offerings.
  • Offering trauma relief and mental health resources through a network of eight Trauma Support Centers and psychological respite activities.
  • Providing access to employment, such as through skills training and work hubs.
  • Supporting refugees as European Jewish communities help absorb those who fled Ukraine, including food, medicine, and housing support, alongside workforce opportunities and integration into local Jewish institutions and programs.
  • Delivering nonsectarian humanitarian aid to people impacted by the crisis, including providing Israeli water filter systems in response to flooding in Kherson, establishing the first public prosthetics workshop in Lviv for local production of prosthetics to hundreds of wounded Ukrainians, and supporting community-based rehabilitation services.

Our Immediate Emergency Response Included:

  • Delivering 1.6+ million pounds of humanitarian aid, including food, medicine, and other crucial supplies.
  • Operating emergency hotlines that fielded 67,600+ calls in collaboration with local Jewish communities and are still active today in Ukraine, Poland, Israel, and Estonia.
  • Implementing and coordinating evacuations upon request across Ukraine, arranging transport and safe accommodations inside Ukraine and beyond, including organizing special medical transport for elderly Jews who were unable to make the journey using standard vehicles.
  • Staffing key border crossings, along with European community partners and volunteers to embrace, inform, and assist refugees while also working to coordinate shelter and home hospitality.

Emergency Hotlines

UKRAINE RESPONSE

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“It’s hard to wrap my mind around the fact that I hid in this basement in 1941, and now I’m here again. It feels like I’m dreaming — like I’m having a nightmare.”

Natalia Berezhnaya, 88

JDC client

“Despite this darkness, there’s a special feeling when us Jews are together: We know that as long as there’s JDC, there will be life.”

Lubov S.

Social Worker

Kharkiv, Ukraine

Ukraine’s vibrant Jewish community is one of the largest in the world, home to an estimated 200,000 Jews prior to the current crisis. Since the collapse of communism, JDC has worked across the former Soviet Union (FSU) to save Jewish lives and build Jewish life. In Ukraine alone, JDC has been serving over 54,000 vulnerable Jews — including the elderly, poor, families, the internally displaced and new poor — through our network of care services, Jewish community programs, and local Jewish volunteers.

Right now, you can help us continue to be a lifeline for Ukraine’s most vulnerable Jews caught in the devastating throes of conflict.

Shabbat for Ukrainian Jews

Bring the voices of Ukrainian Jews to your Shabbat table by downloading this special toolkit, released in partnership with the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA).

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