Institutional Allocations Program

Shoah Research, Education and Documentation

Profiles of Grant Recipients

Survivor Testimonies Engage Students in Holocaust History

Through a program funded by the Claims Conference, a group of 8th graders in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania who had never before learned of the Holocaust found themselves deeply affected by these first-person narratives during a month-long educational unit on the Shoah. Read more...

Letters to Sala

Sala Garncarz survived five years in seven different Nazi forced labor camps. She managed to keep receiving letters from family and friends, and she was determined to keep these as a record of her ordeal, despite standing orders to destroy all correspondence received after it was read. Read more...

Diary of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Emerges in Claims Conference-Funded Archive

The only surviving diary written from inside the Warsaw Ghetto uprising emerged in 2004 from the archives of Beit Lohamei Haghetaot (Ghetto Fighters’ House) in Israel. The six-page diary was written by an unknown young woman, who described the fires raging through the ghetto as the Nazis attempted to control the uprising. Read more...

Holocaust Education in Haredi Schools

More than 600 Israeli teachers from Orthodox girls’ high schools participated in a Claims Conference-sponsored Yom Iyun (Workshop Day). The day was intended as a way to expand Holocaust curricula and bring new materials and techniques to a wide audience. Read more...

Capetown Holocaust Centre, Capetown, South Africa

The Cape Town Holocaust Centre was established in 1999 with the hope that as South Africa moved away from its past of discrimination and intolerance, the institution could play a central role in fostering respect for diversity and value for human rights. The Claims Conference has provided funding for the Centre’s education programs since its founding.Read more...

Yad Vashem

In March 2005, Yad Vashem opened its new Holocaust History Museum after more than 10 years of planning and building. The Claims Conference provided significant financial support for the project, which relates the Shoah from the viewpoint of its Jewish victims. Read more...