“Son of Saul,” a film partially funded by the Claims Conference has been nominated for an Academy Award. The film won a Golden Globe award for Best Motion Picture in the Foreign Language category and the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival.
In movie theaters and on television screens, films bring the lessons and memory of the Holocaust to life. Recognizing the potential of film to reach large numbers of people and to educate and spark powerful discussions, the Claims Conference provides film grants as part of our ongoing support for Holocaust education, documentation and research.
Films highlight a particular aspect or story from the Holocaust, enabling viewers to connect emotionally with the victims and survivors. By learning of one family’s survival by hiding in a cave, or the triumph of a concentration camp soccer team, or the stories behind a tattooed number, even a viewer with no connection to the Holocaust will walk away with a realization that the vast numbers connected with the Shoah each represent a person, a story, a life taken away or forever changed.
April 20, 2020
To commemorate Yom HaShoah, we will present an online screening of the films Who Will Write Our History and 116 Cameras. The event is co-presented by the Claims Conference with The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Katahdin Productions, and The Azrieli Foundation.
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Nearly 300 people filled to capacity the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center in Manhattan for a movie screening of Who Will Write Our History. The event was hosted by the Claims Conference in partnership with the United States Holocaust Museum (USHMM), ...
On Thursday, February 7, 2019, the Claims Conference in partnership with the Paley Center for Media in Los Angeles presented the second edition of a special forum on Holocaust film: Eyewitness: Documenting the Holocaust on Film
The Claims Conference partnered with the Paley Center for Media for this important event moderated by veteran journalist Ted Koppel. The panel included Holocaust survivors, film directors and experts in the field in a discussion on the impact of Film ...
Claims Conference Gave Funding to Produce Movie
“Son of Saul,” the critically acclaimed film that received funding from the Claims Conference, has won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
The Claims Conference is proud to have supported this ground-breaking film ...
Winner to Receive $40,000 to Produce Holocaust Film Short The Claims Conference has launched “Short Film, Large Subject: The Holocaust Film Competition.” This is the organization’s first film contest, open to students currently enrolled in graduate-level film schools or recent ...
The Sobibor Documentation Project
The gas chambers of the Sobibor death camp in Poland, destroyed by the Nazis after the 1943 prisoner uprising, have been unearthed by an archaeological expedition.
The Claims Conference is proud to support documentation of this momentous project. ...