Topics: News & Announcements
Gurlitt Trove Investigation Must Intensify, Transparency Increase
With the Bern Kunstmuseum’s announcement that it will accept ownership of the Gurlitt artwork collection, the Claims Conference calls on Germany to intensify and expand its investigation of the artworks so that Nazi-looted items can be identified and restituted. The Claims Conference welcomes the readiness of the German government and the Kunstmuseum Bern to restitute […]
Claims Conference Launches International Short Film Contest for Graduate Students and Recent Grads
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 graduates from accredited programs.
Discovery at Sobibor Filmed with Claims Conference Support
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. A grant to the Sobibor Documentation Project of the Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic […]
Claims Conference Reaches Landmark Agreement with Germany to Assist Child Survivors of the Holocaust
The Claims Conference has reached a landmark agreement with the German Finance Ministry under which the organization and the German government will together provide assistance to Jewish child survivors of the Holocaust. “The joint fund will recognize survivors worldwide who were in camps, ghettos, hiding and false identity for psychological and medical trauma caused during their […]
Claims Conference Board of Directors Charts Future Course at Annual Meeting
Establishes Demographic Research & Policy Unit to Track Shoah Victim Needs Board Approves Recommendations of Structure & Governance Panel; Officers Elected After extensive discussion among more than 60 representatives from its member organizations at the annual meeting of the Claims Conference, the Board of Directors voted on the long-term future direction of the organization that […]
