Topics: RED-Featured Grants
Claims Conference University Partnership Program in Holocaust Studies
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 partnership for the 2021-2022 academic year.
Lincoln Center Film Screening
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), Katahdin Productions and World Jewish Congress President and Claims Conference Board Member, Ambassador Ronald Lauder.
Pendant Found at Sobibor Linked to its Teenage Owner
Piecing Together One Victim’s Story When Karoline Cohn was born in Frankfurt on July 3, 1929, her parents Richard and Else had a necklace pendant made with the words “Mazal Tov” and her birthdate on one side, and the Hebrew letter Hey, a shortened version of God’s name, on the other. The pendant remained buried for […]
Remembering Kristallnacht
At 11:55 pm on November 9, 1938, Heinrich Müller, chief of the Gestapo, issued an order to all Gestapo offices that began with the following sentence: “Actions against Jews, especially against their synagogues, will take place throughout the Reich shortly.” This understated language, of course, belies the savagery that befell the Jewish communities of Germany […]
High School Students Partner With Survivors to Re-Enact Their Stories
For a moment, Emily Knopf, a student at a Jewish high school in New York, was a young Adele Green, who grew up in Poland and witnessed the murder of several siblings during the Holocaust before she and sister went into hiding to survive the Nazi horror. Adele immigrated to the United States after the […]
