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Program Information

Overview

History

Eligibility

Restituting History: The Search for Documentation

Payments Under Additional Labor Distribution Fund

Payments to Heirs

Payments to Forced Laborers Who Were Not Deported

Claims Processing

Swiss Banks Settlement

Survivor Profile:
Gisele Schlanger

The Claims Conference has paid 146,513 Holocaust survivors and claims from 20,003 heirs of victims a total of approximately $1.2 billion from the German Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility, and the Future," under this program to date.

In addition, 173,926 survivors and claims from heirs of victims have been approved to receive a total of approximately
$252 million from the Claims Conference, with funds from the Swiss Banks Settlement, as compensation for slave and forced labor.

Payments have been made in 75 countries.

Claims Conference Programs:
Program for Former Slave and Forced Laborers

September 30, 2006 Deadline

The processing of all cases submitted to the Claims Conference was completed and/or closed as of September 30, 2006. All time limits related to the processing of cases, including those related to appeals and heirs, that did not expired as of September 30, 2006 automatically terminated on that date. Except for persons who filed valid appeals prior to September 30, 2006, the Claims Conference (and the Independent Appeals Authority), based on the regulations of the German Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility and the Future," is unable to accept any additional documents or information related to any case.

The aforegoing also applies to the Fund for Medical Experiments and Other Personal Injuries.