The Claims Conference provides grant funds to European universities for the purposes of teaching Holocaust courses for one year and is currently seeking universities that are interested in creating a ...
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 ...
Using a database of deportation records funded by the Claims Conference, Yad Vashem believes it has identified the teenage owner of this pendant, which was recently discovered in an excavation ...
Baden Baden, Germany – Jews arrested following Kristallnacht were forced to walk through the streets with a sign reading, “God does not forgive us.” Photo: Yad Vashem
At 11:55 pm on ...
Adele Green, a Holocaust survivor born in Poland, has a gentle moment with SAR student performer Emily Knopf, who starred as Adele during a skit based on her Shoah experience.
For ...
On view at the Museum of Jewish Heritage through August 14, 2016, “Stitching History From the Holocaust” was created by and is on loan from the Jewish Museum Milwaukee. ...
“Transports to Extinction: Shoah (Holocaust) Deportation Database Project” includes Yad Vashem’s research into the deportation of Jews from every Jewish community in Europe during the Holocaust.
Luca Fenoglio’s interest in the Holocaust started when he was growing up in Italy. “As a teenager, I found several books on Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and the Holocaust in ...
The inaugural workshop of the Provenance Research Training Program (PRTP) was held in June 2012 in Magdeburg, Germany Photo: Lars Frohümuller
The Provenance Research Training Program (PRTP) focuses on provenance research (documenting ...
The photographer Roman Vishniac was best known for capturing images of Jewish life in Central and Eastern Europe before the Holocaust. The Claims Conference provided a grant for the exhibition “Roman Vishniac Rediscovered” which took place ...
A new exhibit at Yad Mordechai shows the interior of and view from a middle-class Warsaw Jewish family’s apartment before the war. Photo: David Gary
Yad Mordechai is a kibbutz in ...
Natalya Lazar, a Ph.D. Candidate in Holocaust Studies at Clark University in Massachusetts, is a recipient of a Kagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies. Claims Conference fellowships support Ph.D. and ...
The museum includes a stunning recreation of the wooden cupola roof of the 17th century synagogue in Gwozdziec.
When Marian Turski was 14, he was forced, with his parents and younger brother, into ...
Tracks leading to the Sobibór railway yard Photo: Jacques Lahitte
The Sobibor Documentation Project
The gas chambers of the Sobibor death camp in Poland, destroyed by the Nazis after the 1943 prisoner ...
Claims Conference Vice President and survivor leader Ben Helfgott, right, with British Prime Minister David Cameron, center, and Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev in the Yad Vashem Hall of Names.
In ...
A new permanent exhibition at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum has updated decades-old information with a compelling format, placing the murder of more than 1 million Jews at the death camp ...
A painting from “Reclaimed: Paintings from the Collection of Jacques Goudstikker” presented by the Jewish Museum of New York.
The Claims Conference allocates funds for projects relating to looted art and cultural ...
Students of Shiloh Middle School in Gwinnett County posed with a trunk they decorated.
Georgia’s Holocaust Learning Trunk Project has been a resounding success with teachers and students throughout the state. ...
Three Promises: A film about the Holocaust in Serbia
On March 18, 1942, a Nazi gas van pulled up in front of the Jewish hospital of Belgrade, and for the first ...
Brazil is the largest recipient of Claims Conference education funds in South America and since 2009 the Claims Conference has funded two programs that take college students on visits to ...
