Topics: News & Announcements
Claims Conference Announces Opening of First-Ever Film on Reparations–Reckonings: The First Reparations
Long-Awaited Telling Of The First Reparations In History; Opening Event To Be Held In Partnership With The Paley Center For Media NEW YORK, N.Y.: October 27, 2022—Gideon Taylor, President of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference), announced today the opening of a new film, Reckonings: The First Reparations. Funded by the […]
German Chancellor And Claims Conference Meet To Mark 70th Anniversary Of Historic Reparations Agreements And Announce Negotiations Results Of Over $1.2 Billion
Negotiations With Germany Result In Emergency Payments For Survivors, Liberalization Of Compensations And Increased Home Care For Holocaust Survivors Globally. NEW YORK, NY: September 15, 2022 — Today, at the invitation of the German Federal Minister of Finance, Mr. Christian Lindner, the Claims Conference will join German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Israel’s Minister for Social […]
Claims Conference Announces Winner Of Film Contest For Emerging Directors Focused On The Holocaust
NEW YORK, NEW YORK: May 17, 2022 – Gideon Taylor, President of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference), announced the winner of the Claims Conference’s Short Film, Large Subject Emerging Filmmaker Contest. First place goes to Sabina Vajrača, a Bosnian-American filmmaker who was influenced by her Muslim family’s experience in Bosnia […]
Claims Conference Publishes 100 Words From 100 Holocaust Survivors Globally Asking the World to Remember
Please like and share this video on Facebook. New York, New York: April 28, 2022 – Gideon Taylor, President of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference), today published the 100 Words project, a video Op-Ed made by 100 Holocaust survivors asking the world to stand with them and remember on Holocaust […]
Claims Conference Mobilizes in Ukraine
Urgent Care and Support for Holocaust Survivors Claims Conference EVP Greg Schneider reports that the danger in Ukraine is forcing the Claims Conference to revisit what it means to provide aid to Holocaust survivors. Generally, survivors are living in the United States and Israel, in Canada and Australia, in places that are stable,” the Claims […]
