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Executive Director: Stacey Hafen
Director of Development: Diane Castrovinci
Director of Health & Safety/Emergency Services: Jeanne Yusko
Director of Volunteer & Community Services: Arlene Colli
Director of Transportation: Cathy Fitzpatrick

The American Red Cross is a humanitarian organization, led by volunteers, that provides relief to victims of disasters and helps people prevent, prepare for, and respond to emergencies. It does this through services that are consistent with its congressional charter and the fundamental principles of the International Red Cross Movement.

 

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Friday, July 11, 2008 — Over the past 66 years, Irene Famulak’s thoughts often strayed thousands of miles from her home in Philadelphia, PA. Irene remembered the Ukraine. She could close her eyes and see her mother, her father, her six brothers and sisters. Time and again, Irene re-lived that day in 1942 when Nazis invaded her home, captured her family and separated them. As Nazi troops took her away, Irene remembers her little brother, George (Wssewolod) Galizkij, pulling on the hem of her dress, begging her not to go. She spent the rest of the war serving as a cook in a concentration camp in Germany without seeing her family again.
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