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Help Preserve the Historical Record.
Your support helps the Gens Family Project preserve testimony, recover archival evidence, document historic sites, produce documentary films and create educational resources that carry these histories forward.
As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, contributions support the research and preservation work at the center of the project.
Thank you for helping preserve these histories for future generations.
YOUR SUPPORT AT WORK
What Your Gift Helps Preserve.
SURVIVOR TESTIMONY
Preserving Living Memory
Thousands of survivor testimonies have been recorded, yet many remain largely unexamined in archives. Support helps us return to these voices, identify the people, places and events they describe, and recover historical knowledge that may otherwise remain unheard.
ARCHIVAL RESEARCH
Recovering What Survives
Gifts help support the search for photographs, documents, records and other evidence scattered across archives and private collections.
FIELD RESEARCH
Documenting Historic Places
Support helps make it possible to record mass-grave sites, cemeteries, former Jewish communities and other places where physical evidence still survives.
FILM & EDUCATION
Carrying the History Forward
Contributions support documentary films, educational resources and public presentations that bring this research to wider audiences.
WHY GIVE
Historical Evidence Does Not Preserve Itself.
The surviving record of the Holocaust and Lithuanian Jewish history is finite. Witnesses are disappearing, physical sites continue to change, documents remain scattered across institutions and families, and important testimony can sit unheard in archives for decades.
Research is often what turns preservation into understanding. A recorded interview becomes far more valuable when the people, places and events within it are identified. A photograph gains meaning when a name is restored. A document found in one archive can unlock evidence preserved somewhere else.
Support makes it possible to pursue those connections—to travel where the evidence survives, obtain and study archival material, document historical sites, preserve discoveries and bring the resulting history into films, education and public understanding.
Every recovered name, testimony, photograph and place strengthens a historical record that becomes more difficult to reconstruct with each passing generation.
WHAT YOUR GIFT CAN HELP MAKE POSSIBLE
Every Gift Moves the Research Forward.
Financial support is only one way to contribute. Family collections, historical knowledge and connections between people and institutions can also help recover histories that might otherwise remain unknown.
$50 — Preserve a Piece of the Record
Helps support digitization, archival access and the preservation of photographs, documents and testimony.
$100 — Recover Historical Evidence
Helps support the acquisition, review and investigation of archival records and survivor testimony.
$250 — Take the Research Into the Field
Helps support travel, documentation and research at historic sites, cemeteries and mass-grave locations.
$500 — Bring the History to Wider Audiences
Helps support documentary production, educational resources and the presentation of research to schools, museums and communities.
Every contribution, at any level, becomes part of the work of recovering and preserving this history.
MAKE A DIFFERENCE
Help Carry This History Forward.
Every contribution helps the Gens Family Project continue the work of finding, documenting and preserving evidence that might otherwise remain scattered, unidentified or unheard.
Your support helps make possible the archival research, fieldwork, documentary films and educational resources needed to bring these histories forward with accuracy, context and care.
The Gens Family Project is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Contributions may be tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
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Thank you for helping preserve these histories for the generations that follow.