Institutional Allocations to Assist Survivors

2004 Claims Conference Allocations

ARGENTINA- $670,000

Tzedaka Foundation/Delagacion de Asociaciones Israelitas Argentinas (DAIA) BUENOS AIRES
Toward the continuation of the social services program for Nazi victims

AUSTRALIA- $837,861

Jewish Care, Victoria MELBOURNE
Toward the continuation and expansion of the social services program for Nazi victims- $330,000

Jewish Care New South Wales SYDNEY
Toward the continuation of the social services programs for Nazi victims - $350,000

Jewish Centre on Ageing SYDNEY
Toward the continuation of the meals-on-wheels and food program for Nazi victims - $80,000

Jewish Holocaust Centre MELBOURNE
Toward upgrading the permanent exhibition and toward cataloguing - $41,036

Monash University, Australian Centre for the Study of Jewish Civilization VICTORIA
Toward teacher training and the web-accessible bibliography of Australian Holocaust survivor memoirs - $11,825

Sydney Jewish Museum SYDNEY
Toward the educational CD-ROMs to be used in the museum - $25,000

AUSTRIA- $105,000

Central Europe Center for Research and Documentation VIENNA
Toward “Witness to a Jewish Century” - $50,000

Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Historical Social Science VIENNA
Toward research on “Medical Experiments in Nazi Concentration Camps” - $30,000

Center for Jewish Cultural History SALZBURG
Toward archiving oral history interviews of Jewish victims of Nazism from Austria - $25,000

BELARUS- $50,000

Hesed Rakhamim MINSK
Toward the provision of food packages, hot meals, meals on wheels, homecare, winter relief, medical consultations and equipment for Jewish victims of Nazi persecution

BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA- $78,000

La Benevolencija SARAJEVO
Toward the social services program for Nazi victims, including a reserve fund

BULGARIA- $75,000

Organization of the Jews in Bulgaria “Shalom” SOFIA
Toward the social services program including homecare, winter relief, medications and medical supplies for Nazi victims

CANADA- $330,000

Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care TORONTO
Toward the continuation of the social services program for Nazi victim - $60,000

Circle of Care TORONTO
Toward the social services program for Nazi victims - $50,000

Cummings Jewish Centre for Seniors MONTREAL
Toward the social services program for Nazi victims - $120,000

Jewish Family and Child Service TORONTO
Toward the social services program for Nazi victims - $55,000

London Jewish Federation LONDON
Toward the Holocaust Memoir Digest - $20,000

Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre MONTREAL
Toward the seventh annual Holocaust Series - $10,000

The Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre/Jewish Family Service Agency VANCOUVER
Toward the continuation of the social services program for Nazi victims - $15,000

CROATIA- $115,000

Jewish Community of Zagreb ZAGREB
Toward in-home services for Nazi victims including medicine, medical equipment, homecare, meals and transportation; and a reserve toward teacher training seminars - $75,000

Jewish Community of Zagreb, Research and Documentation Center ZAGREB
Toward the continued development of a database of Holocaust victims and computerization and cataloguing the collected documents and material about the Holocaust in Croati - $40,000

CZECH REPUBLIC- $107,500

Hidden Child Praha PRAGUE
As a reserve toward research and publication of “Rescuers and Rescued” - $15,000

Terezin Initiative PRAGUE
Toward providing medicine and medical equipment for Nazi victims, and educational visits of Czech students to the Terezin memorial - $92,500

ESTONIA- $134,000

Jewish Community of Estonia TALLINN
Toward the provision of food packages, hot meals, meals on wheels, homecare, winter relief, medical consultations and equipment for Jewish victims of Nazi persecution

FRANCE- $553,875

Association D’Aide aux Israelities Ages et Malades (ADIAM) PARIS
Toward the continuation of the homecare and guardianship programs for Nazi victims- $403,875

Comite d’Action Sociale Israelite de Marseille (CASIM) MARSEILLE
Toward the continuation of the homecare program for Nazi victims - $20,000

Foundation CASIP-COJASOR PARIS
Toward the continuation of the social services program for Nazi victims - $110,000

Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants (OSE) PARIS
Toward case management services at the medical center - $20,000

GREECE- $39,207

Jewish Museum of Greece ATHENS
Toward producing teacher trunks on the Holocaust and an exhibit on “The Jewish Neighborhoods in Greece”

HUNGARY- $375,000

Hungarian Jewish Social Support Foundation BUDAPEST
Toward essential social service programs for Nazi victims

ISRAEL- $51,266,744

Agudath Bet Yaacov TEL AVIV
Toward Holocaust teacher training and continuing education - $100,000

Agudat Mifalei Tora Ve’Chessed HAIFA
Toward the purchase of kitchen equipment - $12,000

Alzheimer’s Association of Israel RAMAT GAN
Toward the purchase of health kits - $4,050

AMCHA
Toward the provision of treatment hours, the friendly visitation program, treatment for homebound survivors, the cost of rent for five branches, and the renovation and purchase of equipment for the Tel Aviv branch. - $829,415

Amigour
Toward the construction of additional sheltered housing units in Be’er Sheva, Ashdod, and Holon - $1,336,500

Amuta Le’ma’an Hakashish - Ra’anana Day Care Center RA’ANANA
Toward the purchase of a vehicle to transport disabled Nazi victims to and from the day care center - $27,000

Association for the Aged - Petach Tikva PETACH TIKVA
Toward the renovation of the club and for the purchase of equipment - $45,000

Association for the Aged in Ramat Gan RAMAT GAN
Toward the establishment of a third day care center in Ramat Gan - $120,000

Association for the Aged in Ramat Hasharon RAMAT HASHARON As a reserve toward the expansion of the senior day care center to include a physiotherapy room - $16,000

Association for the Elderly and Society ASHDOD
Toward the purchase of equipment for the occupational day care center and renovation of the club and purchase of equipment - $55,200

Association for the Elderly—Gil Oz BEIT SHEAN VALLEY
Toward the renovation of the day care center and for the purchase of equipment - $10,000

*Association for the Elderly - Hagil Hashlishi BEIT SHEAN
Toward the expansion of the day care center and for the purchase of equipment - $27,000

Association for the Elderly - Matte Yehuda SHIMSHON
Toward the upgrading of the day care center and for the purchase of equipment - $44,000*

Ateret–Retirement House “Neve Oranim” GEDERA
Toward upgrading the sprinkler and electricity systems and the bomb shelter - $100,000

Avnei Noam BNEI BRAK
Toward lectures, visits to Holocaust institutions in Israel, materials and a school exhibition - $40,000

Bar Ilan University - Joseph Carlebach Institute RAMAT GAN
Toward “Children’s Testimonies about their Holocaust Experiences” - $95,000

Beit Berl College DOAR BEIT BERL
Toward the program for Holocaust teaching coordinators - $9,500

Beit Haedut – Yad Laad MOSHAV NIR GALIM
Toward a pilot experimental group in the “Another Way” program - $33,200

Beit Hatefusoth TEL AVIV
Toward upgrading the permanent exhibition focusing on 20th century Jewish life. - $2,000,000

Beit Hazkenim Nursing Home – Kiryat Menachem Jerusalem
Toward the upgrading of 30 beds - $220,000

Beit Lohamei Haghetaot WESTERN GALILEE
Toward “Education for Values for Life in a Democratic Jewish State after the Holocaust”; acquisitions for archives; and preservation, digitization, computerization, and cataloguing of archives - $864,735

Beit Morasha JERUSALEM
Toward the Holocaust Remembrance Project for Israeli security forces - $100,000

Beit Theresienstadt GIVAT HAIM IHUD
Toward the creation of a new exhibit, “A Family in the Ghetto”; cataloguing, registering, and scanning of the archive and facilitating its use on the Internet; and toward development and production of a study program and kit - $79,375

Beit Yitzhak Geriatric Center BNEI BRAK
Toward renovating the frail department - $157,000

Birthright Israel JERUSALEM
Toward the inclusion of a Holocaust seminar - $400,000

Bnei Akiva JERUSALEM
Toward the “Etgar” project, training counselors, and seminars and educational trips on the Holocaust - $124,700

Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People JERUSALEM
Toward acquisitions, preservation, cataloguing, digitization, and computerization of Successor Organization and related archives - $502,096

Chinuch Atzmai – Torah Schools for Israel JERUSALEM
Toward the Holocaust Studies Program - $100,000

Claims Conference International Shoah Archivists Working Forum
Toward continued coordination and work related to the International Shoah Archivists Working Forum - $15,000

Central Zionist Archives JERUSALEM
Toward preservation, cataloguing, digitization, and computerization of Holocaust-related archives - $459,500

Chabad House EILAT
Toward purchasing equipment for the soup kitchen - $9,000

Dor HaPalmach Association – Beit Hapalmach TEL AVIV
As a reserve toward the establishment of the exhibit and exhibit hall on the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the Palmach - $500,000

Eshel Jerusalem JERUSALEM
Toward renovating and expanding the kitchen and purchasing equipment - $35,000

Eshel—Association for the Planning and Development of Services for the Aged in Israel JERUSALEM
Toward participation in the 2nd World Conference on Jewish Social and Medical Services for the Elderly, and toward improving the skills of nurses for Nazi victims - $40,000

Ezer Mitzion BNEI BRAK
Toward purchasing five ambulances and purchasing equipment to be loaned to needy Nazi victims - $325,000

**Ezra Le’Marpeh - The Israel Institute for Medical Assistance BNEI BRAK
Toward the purchase of two ambulances and equipment - $254,897**

Foundation for the Benefit of Holocaust Victims in Israel TEL AVIV
Toward nursing hours, individual grants, and emergency lifeline services - $20,000,000

Friendship Village TEL AVIV
Toward “Young People Against Racism” educational program - $15,000

Geriatric Center Giv’at Hashlosha PETACH TIKVAH
Toward renovating, upgrading and purchasing equipment for two frail wards and two mentally frail wards - $388,166

Gil-Ad Geriatric Center RAMAT GAN
Toward upgrading the nursing department and purchasing equipment - $312,230

Ginzach Kidush Hashem – Institute for Documentation, Research and Commemoration BNEI BRAK
Toward classification, cataloguing, computerization, and digitization of the archives; and compiling a three-volume collection commemorating spiritual bravery during the Shoah - $185,000

Hakem – World Confederation of United Zionists JERUSALEM
Toward “Literature and the Holocaust: Literary Evenings in Memory of Primo Levi, Paul Celan and Bruno Schultz.” - $15,000

Havatzelet-Moreshet – The Mordechai Anielevich Memorial Holocaust Study & Research Center GIVAT HAVIVA
Toward the educational project, “In the Ghetto There Are No Children”; “Women Holocaust Resistance Fighters”; preservation, digitization, cataloguing, and computerization of archives; publications; and “Yalkut Moreshet” - $540,350

Hechal Shlomo JERUSALEM As a reserve toward the educational exhibition - $185,000

Hedva Eibeshitz Institute of Holocaust Studies HAIFA
Toward “Holocaust Memory Activists,” courses for escorts of youth trips and instructors, seminars, and educational exhibition of personal items donated by Holocaust survivors and their heirs - $77,000

Hitahdut Olej Romania HAIFA
Toward purchasing equipment - $3,600

Institute for Jewish Studies in the FSU JERUSALEM
Toward the “Bayit LeMidrash” program to train FSU Holocaust educators - $168,000

Institute of Documentation in Israel HAIFA
Toward cataloguing files on major Nazi criminals and testimonies of survivors - $25,000

Israel Experience JERUSALEM
Toward student scholarships in 2005 for trips to sites of Nazi atrocities in Eastern Europe and the “Exodus Floating Seminar,” and toward the “Venizkor” program in Poland for educators. - $930,500

Jabotinsky Institute in Israel TEL AVIV
Toward “The Zydowski Zwiazek Wojskowy (ZZW): Its Role in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and its Place in the Narrative of the Shoah” - $17,250

Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs JERUSALEM
Toward research on Dutch restitution - $22,000

Jerusalem Centre for Community Leadership Development JERUSALEM
Toward the study of Jewish community life during the Holocaust - $- $20,000

Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) JERUSALEM
Toward teaching FSU Jewish educators and leaders about the Shoah, Shoah education in Israel for Ukrainian Jewish education students, Shoah educational seminars in the FSU, Shoah education and teacher training in Eastern Europe, Shoah education for young FSU immigrants in Germany, Shoah education in FSU Jewish community Sunday schools, Shoah education in Israel for young European Jewish leaders, Shoah education in the FSU through Israel’s Open University - $1,214,250

Jewish Agency for Israel, Yad Vashem, Beit Lohamei HaGetaot JERUSALEM
Toward training in Holocaust studies for FSU educators and leaders - $165,000

Jewish Agency for Israel, Birthright Israel JERUSALEM
Toward bringing youth from Eastern Europe and the FSU to participate in Birthright Israel - $400,000

Kaplan Medical Center REHOVOT
Toward upgrading the internal medicine and geriatric departments consisting of 72 beds and purchasing equipment - $1,800,000

Keren Libi TEL AVIV
Toward the “Witness in Uniform” program - $400,000

Kibbutz Hagoshrim UPPER GALILEE
Toward renovating the Beit Rachel nursing unit and purchasing of equipment - $34,000

Kibbutz Hazorea Archive HAZOREA
Toward digitizing German-Jewish documentation of life before and during the Shoah - $20,000

Kibbutz Lohamei Hagetaot WESTERN GALILEE
Toward enlarging the Beit Hadekel nursing unit dining room, installing a sprinkler system, and upgrading the electricity and air conditioning systems - $35,825

Kibbutz Tirat Zvi BEIT SHEAN VALLEY
Toward renovating and installing a sprinkler system for the Ateret Zvi nursing unit - $38,250

Kibbutz Yavne
Toward renovating the Kvutzat Yavne nursing unit, including expanding the dining room, installing a sprinkler system, and replacing the roof - $35,000

Kupat Holim Maccabi Health Care Center Services - Day Care Center HAIFA
Toward purchasing furniture - $3,500*

*Kupat Holim Meuhedet MOTZA EILIT
Toward upgrading the Maon Harofe old age home nursing department and activity room and purchasing equipment - $40,000

Leo Baeck Institute JERUSALEM
Toward the translation of books and articles from German to Hebrew and English - $30,000

Lev Hasharon Government Mental Health Medical Center PARDESSIA
Toward upgrading and renovating a hall for group activities and group therapy - $90,000

Lithuanian Jewry Memorial Foundation JERUSALEM
Toward collecting and computerizing information about Lithuanian Jewish Shoah victims - $25,000

Givat Shmuel – Day Care Center for the Elderly GIVAT SHMUEL
Toward expanding the facility and purchasing equipment - $58,000

Loewenstein Hospital Rehabilitation Center RA’ANANA
Toward purchasing equipment for physiotherapy - $150,000

Maccabi World Union RAMAT GAN
As a reserve toward “Creating Consciousness on the Shoah: International Program for Maccabi Educators Worldwide” - $100,000

Machanaim Jewish Heritage Center JERUSALEM
Toward teacher training and curriculum development for Israelis from the FSU - $13,000

Massua-Institute for the Study of the Holocaust KIBBUTZ TEL YITZHAK
Toward acquisition, preservation and digitization, and cataloguing and computerization of Shoah-related materials; and toward a training course for Israeli youth movement alumni as guides to Poland - $750,000

Massua/Administration for Rural Education & Youth – Aliyah KIBBUTZ TEL YITZHAK
Toward the Youth Aliyah Educational Memorial Program - $261,000

Mercaz Beth Jacob in Eretz Yisroel JERUSALEM
Toward training youth movement staff in informal Holocaust education, and toward teacher training in Holocaust-related subjects - $152,600

Meir Hospital Sapir Medical Center KFAR SABA
Toward purchasing equipment and upgrading the internal medicine department, upgrading the orthopedic department, and purchasing equipment for the physiotherapy department- $1,563,500

Mercaz Shiluv Education Center OMER
Toward the Home Ceremony for Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Day - $12,275

Michlalah Jerusalem College JERUSALEM
Toward teacher training, the continuation of training for teachers in Shuvu schools for Jews from the FSU, and research on religious activity in France during the Shoah. - $220,000

*Municipality of Bat Yam-Association for Senior Citizens BAT YAM
Toward expanding the frail and mentally frail section of the day care center and purchasing equipment - $40,000*

Municipality of Be’er-Sheva Social Service Department Be’er-Sheva
Toward renovating the seniors’ club and purchasing equipment - $45,000

Municipality of Ramla Mentally Frail Day Care Center RAMLA
Toward establishing a mentally frail day care center - $167,200

Municipality of Ramla Raziel Day Care Center RAMLA
Toward expanding the facility and purchasing equipment - $50,000

Museum of Art EIN HAROD
Toward the publication of “The Ship Goes On,” a book memorializing the flight of Jews from Nazi-occupied Central Europe - $15,000

Open University of Israel TEL AVIV
Toward developing a course for students in the FSU on the Shoah and the methods of teaching and discussing it. - $91,500

Ot Va’Ed JERUSALEM
Toward “Faith and the Holocaust” lecture series - $11,300

Rambam Medical Center HAIFA
Toward upgrading two orthopedic departments and upgrading and purchasing equipment for the internal geriatric department - $2,450,000

Sanz Medical Center - Laniado Hospital NETANYA
Toward renovating and upgrading the internal medicine department and purchasing equipment - $725,000

Sav-Yom Day Care Center for the Elderly YIZRAEL VALLEY
Toward upgrading and renovating the day care center and purchasing equipment - $100,000

Sha’are Marpeh JERUSALEM
Toward purchasing an ambulance - $30,000

SHAMIR - Association of Jewish Religious Professionals from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in Israel JERUSALEM
Toward distributing Russian-language books on the Holocaust - $65,400

Shem Olam Institute KFAR HAROEH
Toward cataloguing and digitizing the archive and acquisition of documents, and toward Holocaust research and education activitie - $250,500

Sinai Parents and Old Age Home HAIFA
Toward renovating the nursing department - $32,000

Shmuel Harofe Geriatric Center BEER YAACOV
Toward constructing a water reservoir for the fire protection system - $250,000

Shoham Geriatric Center PARDES HANNA
Toward the construction of a fire protection system - $100,000

Shuvu JERUSALEM
Toward teacher training seminars, the Shorashim program, parent educational evenings coordinated with Michlalah, and educational programs at Yad Vashem, for children from the FSU - $60,000

Society for the Aged in Arad ARAD
Toward expanding the kitchen, renovating the day care center, and purchasing equipment - $32,000

Society for Research on Jewish Communities JERUSALEM
Toward the “Jewish Lexicon,” for Russian-speaking Jewry - $49,000

Sophie & Abram Stuchynsky Alzheimer Research & Treatment Center RAMAT GAN
Toward constructing a new ward comprising 22 beds - $111,000

*Soroka University Medical Center Hospital BEERSHEVA
Toward the renovation of four internal medicine departments consisting of 152 beds - $1,042,000*

Tel Aviv University - Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center TEL AVIV
Toward “Shvut: Studies in Russian and East European Jewish History and Culture,” “The Kehillah in Romania: The Pulse, Character, and History of the Romanian Jewish Community,” and the publication of volumes 20 and 21of “Gal Ed: On the History and Culture of Polish Jewry.” - $92,425

Tel Aviv University - Wiener Library RAMAT AVIV
Toward cataloguing and computerization of Shoah-related archives - $27,500

Tov Vahesed MIGDAL HAEMEK
Toward purchasing equipment for the soup kitchen - $10,000

Union of Local Authorities
Toward subsidies for needy students to participate in educational trips to Poland - $500,000

United Aged Home Moshav Sekenim JERUSALEM
Toward the upgrading of nursing beds and frail beds including purchasing equipment - $540,130

World Union of Jewish Students JERUSALEM
Toward “Jewish Students Reviving Our Heritage” - $51,875

Yad Mordechai KIBBUTZ YAD MORDECHAI
Toward the seminar center - $127,450

Yad Sara JERUSALEM
Toward purchasing medical rehabilitation equipment - $480,000

Yad Vashem Jerusalem
Toward preservation, digitization, cataloguing, and computerization of archives; the “Yad Vashem 2001” project; “Pinkasei Hakehillot – The Encyclopedia of the Jewish Communities”; educational activities and workshops during “Generation to Generation – Sharing the Legacy”; and additional educational seminars for students - $3,810,000

Yeladim – Netivot JERUSALEM
Toward educational trips to Poland and Israel for Diaspora youth - $40,000

Yiddishpiel - The Yiddish Theatre in Israel TEL AVIV
Toward the Yiddish Theatre including performances in old age homes - $175,000

ITALY- $225,311

Fondazione Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea (CDEC) MILAN
Toward cataloguing, digitizing and preserving Shoah-related documents, including the Vitale and Kalk collections - $87,611

The Jewish Community of Milan MILAN
Toward the social service program for Nazi victims - $38,500

Jewish Social Service Agency of Rome ROME
Toward the social service program for Nazi victims - $79,200

Union of Italian Jewish Communities ROME
Toward the development and distribution of Holocaust educational materials - $20,000

LATVIA- $162,500

Latvian Council of Jewish Communities RIGA
Toward the provision of food packages, hot meals, meals on wheels, homecare, winter relief, medical consultations and equipment for Jewish victims of Nazi persecution

LITHUANIA- $203,500

The Jewish Community of Lithuania VILNIUS
Toward the provision of food packages, hot meals, meals on wheels, homecare, winter relief, medical consultations and equipment for Jewish victims of Nazi persecution

MOLDOVA- $1,034,548

*Jewish Charitable Committee KISHINEV
Toward the provision of food packages, hot meals, meals on wheels, homecare, winter relief, medical consultations and equipment for Jewish victims of Nazi persecution

POLAND- $494,888

Association of Children of the Holocaust in Poland WARSAW
Toward the continuation of the group programs for Nazi victims and the survivor lecture program in public schools “Remembrance for the Future” - $28,000

Central Jewish Welfare Commission WARSAW
Toward the continuation of the social services program for Nazi victims - $188,000

Galicia Jewish Heritage Foundation KRAKOW
Toward the “Holocaust Outreach for Polish Educators (HOPE)” project - $25,000

Jewish Historical Institute WARSAW
Toward cataloguing, digitizing and conserving Holocaust related material - $213,888

Polish Center for Holocaust Research WARSAW
Toward research for the “On Both Sides of the Wall” project - $40,000

ROMANIA- $325,000

Federation of Jewish Communities of Romania (FEDROM) BUCHAREST
Toward the social services programs for Nazi victims

RUSSIA AND EASTERN FORMER SOVIET REPUBLICS- $6,700,480

The following agencies received funding from the Claims Conference to provide essential services to Jewish victims of Nazi persecution including food packages, hot meals, meals on wheels, homecare, winter relief, medical consultations and equipment

Jewish Charitable Committee of the Ural Region EKATERINBURG - $870,000

Hesed Shofar KALININGRAD - $94,744

Jewish Welfare Committee of Krasnoyarsk and Karsnoyarsk Region KRASNOYARSK - $716,056

Jewish Welfare Committee Foundation MOSCOW - $3,046,852

Jewish Welfare Committee of the Volga Region and Central Russia Foundation NIJNI NOVGOROD - $50,000

Jewish Charitable Committee of Rostov-on-Don and Rostov Region ROSTOV-ON-DON - $456,835

Jewish Charitable Committee of St. Petersburg and North-West ST. PETERSBURG - $906,966

Hesed Gershon BAKU, AZERBAIJAN - $51,231

Hesed Eliyahu TBILISI, GEORGIA - $106,863

Corporate Fund "B’Yachad" ALMATY, KHAZAKSTAN - $50,000

Hesed Tikva BISHKEK, KIRGIZSTAN - $64,182

Hesed Yeoshua TASHKENT, UZBEKISTAN - $246,751

Russian Holocaust Foundation MOSCOW
Toward the “Encyclopedia of the Holocaust in the Territory of the Former Soviet Union” - $40,000

SERBIA & MONTENEGRO- $60,000

Federation of Jewish Communities in Serbia & Montenegro BELGRADE
Toward the healthcare project for Nazi victims

SLOVAKIA- $55,000

Central Union of Jewish Religious Communities in the Slovak Republic BRATISLAVA
Toward the “Or Chaim” medical and social services program for Nazi victims - $40,000

Holocaust Documentation Center / Milan Simecka Foundation BRATISLAVA
Toward “The Lost Neighbors – A Forgotten History” and teacher training - $15,000

SLOVENIA- $34,200

Institute of Ethnic Studies, Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies LJUBLJANA
Toward “Jews and Anti-Semitism in Slovenia: Holocaust and Eradication of Memory”

SOUTH AFRICA- $37,000

Cape Town Holocaust Centre CAPE TOWN
Toward a seminar for senior curriculum planners and educational managers, in-service seminars for teachers, seminars for student teachers from universities and colleges, and related staff costs

SWEDEN- $15,000

Jewish Community of Stockholm STOCKHOLM
Toward social services for Nazi victims

UKRAINE- $14,416,732

The following Hesed centers received funding from the Claims Conference to provide essential services to Jewish victims of Nazi persecution including food packages, hot meals, meals on wheels, homecare, winter relief, medical consultations and equipment

Hesed Menachem DNEPROPETROVSK - $3,779,824

Hesed Arie LVOV - $753,978

Kharkov Regional Charitable Fund ’Hesed Kharkov Ezori’ KHARKOV - $1,724,220

*Jewish Charitable Committee KIEV - $4,554,629*

Jewish Welfare Community Mission ’Ednist’ ODESSA - $3,430,081

Euro-Asian Jewish Congress KIEV
To expand “Tolerance – Lessons of the Holocaust” to 9 FSU countries and all regions of Ukraine, including educational seminars, competition for students’ creative and research projects on the Holocaust, interregional youth conferences, maintaining a website for teachers, and secondary school and college curriculum assistance. - $40,000

Institute of Jewish Studies KIEV
Toward the database on Holocaust studies in Ukraine - $15,000

International Center of Jewish Community Programs – Migdal ODESSA
Toward “The History of the Holocaust in the Odessa Region – Research and Educational Project” - $15,000

Jewish Foundation of Ukraine KIEV
Toward research and publication of “The Black Book of Ukraine” - $4,000

Tkuma Holocaust Education and Research Center DNEPROPETROVSK
Toward publishing educational and research materials, seminars, and educational projects for Jewish schools - $100,000

UNITED KINGDOM- $713,915 Beth Shalom Holocaust Memorial Centre NOTTS
Toward educational resources for teachers and students, and educational development and project materials for the learning center - $98,600

Institute of Contemporary History & The Weiner Library LONDON
Toward cataloguing Shoah-related archives - $38,315

Otto Schiff Housing Association ("OSHA") LONDON
Toward homecare services for Nazi victims and social work teams - $437,000

World ORT LONDON
Toward “Learning about the Holocaust through Art” and “Learning about the Holocaust through Music”; and a reserve toward “ORT’s Contribution to the Rehabilitation of Holocaust Victims” - $140,000

UNITED STATES- $13,923,347

ADL Braun Holocaust Institute NEW YORK
Toward the teacher training program - $25,000

Ahavas Yisrael Fund BALTIMORE, MD
Toward the continuation of the food program for Nazi victims - $50,000

American Council for Equal Compensation of Nazi Victims from Austria (ACOA) NEW YORK, NY
Toward the restitution assistance program - $5,000

American Israeli Cooperative Enterprise CHEVY CHASE, MD
Toward the Holocaust wing of the Jewish Virtual Library Web site - $10,000

Association of Holocaust Organizations NEW YORK, NY
Toward teacher training programs - $20,000

Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation NEW YORK, NY
Toward the U.S. Service Academy Program - $15,000

Baltimore Jewish Council BALTIMORE, MD
Toward teacher training programs - $7,500

Bet Tzedek Legal Services LOS ANGELES, CA
Toward the legal services program for Nazi victims - $45,000

Bikur Cholim of Rockland County MONSEY, NY
Toward the social services program for Nazi victims - $160,000

Blue Card NEW YORK, NY
Toward providing services for Nazi victims - $80,000

Boro Park Jewish Community Council BROOKLYN, NY
Toward the social services program for Nazi victims - $50,000

Boro Park YM & YWHA BROOKLYN, NY
Toward the day center for Nazi victims and the establishment of the Alzheimer’s program- $100,000

Center for Holocaust & Human Rights Education, Florida Atlantic University BOCA RATON, FL
Toward “March of the Educators: Study-Tour of Holocaust Related Sites in Europe - $20,000

Center for Jewish History NEW YORK, NY
Toward cataloguing and computerization of Shoah-related material - $146,703

Children’s Mishnayos Memorial Foundation NEW YORK, NY
Toward Holocaust educational assemblies - $15,000

Clark University-Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies WORCESTER, MA
Toward the continuation of the fellowship program for research bursaries and living stipends - $72,000

Community Improvement Council (CIC) SPRING VALLEY, NY
Toward the social services program for Nazi victims - $100,000

Computer Sciences for the Blind BROOKLYN, NY
Toward assistive technologies for visually impaired and physically disabled Nazi victims - $50,000

Development Foundation of the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching CULLOWHEE, NC
Toward the teacher training program - $44,226

Facing History and Ourselves National Foundation BROOKLINE, MA
Towards the Jewish Education Program - $61,275

Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre NEW YORK, NY
Toward performances for Nazi victims in old age homes, at community centers and Café Europa programs - $40,000

Guardians of the Sick Alliance BROOKLYN, NY
Toward the social services program for Nazi victims - $592,500

Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion CINCINNATI, OH
Toward training teachers in Holocaust education for Ohio and other local schools - $80,000

Holocaust Education Center of the Delaware Valley CHERRY HILL, NJ
Toward the teacher training program - $5,000

Holocaust Education Prejudice Reduction Program (HEPRP) WOODBRIDGE, CT
Toward the teacher training program - $15,000

Holocaust Museum Houston HOUSTON, TX
Toward the exhibition “In the Shadow of the Swastika” - $37,500

Holocaust Resource Center/Queensborough Community College BAYSIDE, NY
Toward education resources and exhibitions - $30,000

Holocaust Survivor Emergency Assistance Program
Toward cash grants for items such as eyeglasses, dental work, food, emergency rent and home repairs - $1,000,000

Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island BROOKLYN, NY
Toward the continuation of the friendly visiting program, drop-in center, Sunday senior center program, and Holocaust survivors’ support program - $189,400

JCC of the Greater Five Towns CEDARHURST, NY
Toward the social services program for Nazi victims - $40,000

Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas MINNEAPOLIS, MN
Toward educator workshops for the “Visual Witness Project” - $7,500

Jewish Foundation for the Righteous NEW YORK, NY
Toward the summer institute teacher training; “Teaching the Holocaust: History, Perspectives, and Choices”; and support for Righteous Gentiles. - $494,940

Jewish Healthcare Foundation - Avraham Moshe Bikur Cholim LOS ANGELES, CA
As a reserve toward the social services program for Nazi victims - $50,000

Jewish Museum of Maryland BALTIMORE, MD
Toward the development of the educational resource kit - $2,500

Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Toward development of the website - $35,000

K’hal Adath Jeshurun NEW YORK, NY
Toward the socialization programs for Nazi victims - $50,000

Knowing Our Past Foundation LITTLE ROCK, AR
Toward the exhibit “Courage to Remember” - $2,800

Ladies Bikur Cholim of Greater New York BROOKLYN, NY
Toward the social service program and the food program for Nazi victims - $122,986

Legal Services for New York City NEW YORK, NY
Toward the legal services program for Nazi victims - $100,000

Leo Baeck Institute NEW YORK, NY
Toward preservation of Shoah-related materials - $125,000

Looted Cultural Property Project NEW YORK, NY As a reserve toward microfilming and researching the Nazi records of looted property - $345,000

Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty NEW YORK, NY
Toward the Metropair program for Nazi victims - $100,000

Nachas Health and Family Network BROOKLYN, NY
Toward the survivor assistance project for Nazi victims - $150,000

New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG) NEW YORK, NY
Toward legal services for Nazi victims and the Holocaust Compensation Assistance Project - $130,000

Pesach Tikvah/United Jewish Organizations (UJO) of Williamsburg BROOKLYN, NY
Toward the social services program for Nazi victims - $75,000

Rodeph Chesed Volunteer Ambulette Transport BROOKLYN, NY
Toward transportation services for Nazi victims - $75,000

ROFEH International BOSTON, MA
Toward the health, medical assistance and hospitality program for Nazi victims - $75,000

Selfhelp Community Services NEW YORK, NY
Toward the social services programs for Nazi victims - $1,710,000

Seton Hill University, National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education GREENSBURG, PA
Toward publishing the proceedings of the Sixth Holocaust Education Conference - $10,000

Tomche Shabbos BROOKLYN, NY
Toward the food program for Nazi victims - $75,000

Tomchei Shabbos FOREST HILLS, NY
Toward the food program for Nazi victims - $40,000

Tomchei Shabbos LOS ANGELES, CA
Toward the expansion of the food program for Nazi victims - $75,000

Torah Umesorah – Zechor Yemos Olam NEW YORK, NY
Toward the teacher training program and teacher training trips for Holocaust educators - $160,000

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum WASHINGTON, D.C.
Toward the fellowship program subject to Claims Conference administrative oversight, archival acquisitions, and the National Institute for Holocaust Education - $1,350,000

Voice of Piotrkow Survivors KEW GARDENS, NY
Toward the research publication for survivors - $6,000

Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center SEATTLE, WA
Toward teacher trunks for Jewish day and supplemental schools - $15,000

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research NEW YORK, NY
Toward teacher training and archival preservation - $150,000

Jewish Family Services (JFS) Programs by State:
The following Jewish Family Service agencies received funding from the Claims Conference to provide social services to Nazi victims:

Jewish Family Service CINCINNATI, OH - $55,000
Jewish Family Service Association of Cleveland BEACHWOOD, OH - $150,000

Jewish Family Services COLUMBUS, OH - $25,300
Jewish Family & Child Service PORTLAND, OR - $24,000
Jewish Family and Children’s Service of Greater Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA, PA - $210,000
Jewish Family and Children’s Service of Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH, PA - $64,000
Jewish Family Services of Greater Dallas DALLAS, TX - $40,000
Jewish Family & Children’s Service EL PASO, TX - $5,200
Jewish Family Service of Tidewater VIRGINIA BEACH, VA - $20,000
Jewish Family Service SEATTLE, WA - $30,000
Jewish Family Services MILWAUKEE, WI - $60,000

Café Europa Program

The following agencies received grants for the Cafe Europa program, which provides Nazi victims an opportunity to socialize, a support network, and a way to obtain information through speakers and communicating with others.

American Association of Holocaust Survivors from the Former Soviet Union, Congregation Meor Hachaim, and the Union of Holocaust Survivors from the “Death Loop” Pechora, BROOKLYN, NY - $10,000
Association of Jewish Family Service Agencies ELIZABETH, NJ - $25,000
Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors PHILADELPHIA, PA - $7,500
Dallas Holocaust Museum DALLAS, TX - $5,000
Hidden Child Foundation – ADL NEW YORK, NY - $5,000
Hidden Children of the Holocaust of Bergen County TEANECK, NJ - $3,000
Hidden Children of Westchester HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON, NY - $5,000
Alpert Jewish Family & Children’s Service—Holocaust Advisory Committee WEST PALM BEACH, FL - $5,000
Holocaust Survivors Group of Southern Nevada LAS VEGAS, NV - $5,000
Holocaust Survivors Social Club of Baltimore BALTIMORE, MD - $5,000
Jewish Community Center at Starrett City BROOKLYN, NY - $5,000
Jewish Family Service of Broward County PLANTATION, FL - $10,000
Jewish Family Service of Lackawanna County SCRANTON, PA - $1,272
Jewish Home & Aging Services DETROIT, MI - $5,000
Jewish Survivors of Latvia ROSLYN HEIGHTS, NY - $5,000
Kings Point Holocaust Survivors Club TAMARAC, FL - $5,000
Manhattan Chapter of Women Holocaust Survivors BRONX, NY - $10,000
Miami Café Europa Program, MIAMI, FL - $10,000
New Life Club SAN DIEGO, CA - $7,500
Phoenix Holocaust Survivors Association PHOENIX, AZ - $15,000
Queens Chapter of Holocaust Survivors ELMHURST, NY - $10,000
Riverdale Chapter of Jewish Holocaust Survivors BRONX, NY - $5,000
Ruth Rales Jewish Family Service BOCA RATON, FL - $5,000
Share NEW YORK, NY - $5,000
Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center SEATTLE, WA - $10,000
Westchester Jewish Community Services WHITE PLAINS, NY - $5,000

*Indicates an allocation using funds from the German Foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility, and the Future.”
** - $204,702 of this amount represent the final allocations from the Volkswagen Fund.

Allocation Types

Funding Sources and Grant Lists

Documents

Guidelines

Applications

Institutional Allocations to Assist Survivors

2004 Claims Conference Allocations