Ross Family Survivor to Survivor Scholarship

A survivor of the Holocaust, Josef A. Ross was born in Skarzysko, Poland. In the fourth grade, his primary education in the local public school abruptly came to an end with the Nazi invasion of September, 1939. The rest of his youth coincided with the horrific years of the Second World War and its immediate aftermath. On May 9, 1945, he was liberated from Terezin (Thersienstadt) Concentration Camp. Four years later he came to the United States and eventually settled in New York City. Mr. Ross said, “I wanted to pay back the American forces that liberated the concentration camps [and] second, I was forbidden to attend any schools during the war in Europe, so I know how it feels not to have an education.”The Ross Family Survivor to Survivor Scholarship is available to students who are former U.S. service personnel or their children. Candidates can be from any state in the country. The scholarship is funded by an endowment established by the Ross family.
Eligibility:
Students who have an immediate family member of a service man/ woman who gave his or her life for their country; or
Veteran who was wounded in the war; or
Veterans

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Ross Family Survivor to Survivor Scholarship
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