Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference)

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Latin America and Australia

Hana receives medical and food assistance from UNIBES, the Brazilian and Israel Social Welfare Organization, which receives funding from the Claims Conference. Learn more.
JewishCare in Sydney, a recipient of Claims Conference allocations, has been a constant help to Luba since she moved to Australia in 1980.Learn more.
In-home care and meals on wheels continue to help vulnerable Nazi victims during Argentina’s ongoing financial crisis.
An exercise class run by a Claims Conference-funded geriatric day center.
At this Café Europa in Uruguay, elderly attendees participated in a dance performance by students from a local Jewish school. Learn more.


Australia and New Zealand

In Sydney, the Jewish Centre on Ageing operates the city’s only kosher meal program. Through hot lunches at its drop-in center and its home delivered meals program, the Centre provides approximately 400 Nazi victims with food on a weekly basis, serving more than 26,000 meals in a year.

Jewish Care in Sydney and Jewish Care in Melbourne provide case management, homecare, counseling, social programs, and other services benefiting more than 600 Nazi victims.

A Claims Conference allocation to the Wellington Jewish Care of the Aged Society supports short-term emergency financial assistance to needy Nazi victims throughout New Zealand.

Latin America

In Argentina, the Claims Conference funds a program through the Tzedaka Foundation to assist needy Nazi victims. The program provides health care, including a pharmacy program providing free or low-cost medications, and arrangements with several doctors to provide free consultations, checkups, examinations, and minor procedures. In addition, the program provides home-care, food, payment of basic utilities, counseling, legal assistance, and help in covering basic expenses. There are also social gatherings and weekly workshops for survivors.

In Brazil, the Claims Conference supports Uniăo Brasileiro-Israelita do Bem-Estar Social–UNIBES, a Saő Paulo organization established in 1915 and today the primary organization in Brazil providing social services to Nazi victims. UNIBES provides chore and housekeeper services, personal care, medicines, medical care, medical equipment, and transportation to Nazi victims, with Claims Conference funding. The Claims Conference also funds Instituicaő Beneficente Israelita Ten Yad in Saő Paulo, which provides weekly food packages to Nazi victims.

In Uruguay, Claims Conference allocations enable the Fundación Tzedaká to provide emergency financial assistance to Nazi victims, homecare, and a Café Europa.

The Claims Conference also funds emergency assistance programs for Nazi victims in Chile, Mexico, and Venezuela.