Topics: RED-Featured Grants
Warsaw Ghetto Recreation at Yad Mordechai
Yad Mordechai is a kibbutz in southern Israel, sitting roughly 2 miles north of the Gaza Strip. It was established in December 1943 by members of the Ha’shomer Hatza’ir Zionist youth movement who chose its name to commemorate the young leader of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, Mordechai Anielewicz, also a member of Ha’shomer Hatza’ir. At […]
Natalya Lazar
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 postdoctoral candidates pursuing research on Holocaust-related topics. Her dissertation, entitled “Czernowitz Jews and the Holocaust,” explores Jewish life and the changing dynamics of interethnic and […]
Preserving Polish Jewish History
When Marian Turski was 14, he was forced, with his parents and younger brother, into the Lodz Ghetto and then deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in August 1944. He survived a death march to Buchenwald in January 1945, and was then sent on a second death march to Theresienstadt where, sick with typhus, he was liberated by the Soviet […]
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 […]
Promoting U.K. Shoah Education
In 1938, Max Lichtwitz of Berlin, a widower, made the heartbreaking decision to send his only child, Heinz, to the United Kingdom as part of the Kindertransport to save him from the growing persecution of the Jews. Heinz was placed with a childless Jewish couple in Wales, Morris and Winnie Foner, who raised him as […]
