Topics: RED-Featured Grants
Auschwitz Pavilion
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 in the larger context of the Holocaust. The Auschwitz Pavilion, created in the camp’s former Block 27, was designed and built by Yad Vashem and funded […]
Looted Art & Cultural Property Grants
The Claims Conference allocates funds for projects relating to looted art and cultural property. ERR ProjectThe compiling and making available of the records of the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR). Nazi-Era Provenance Internet Portal(NEPIP): Created by the American Association of Museums, NEPIP is a searchable registry of objects in U.S. museum collections that changed hands in Continental […]
Georgia’s Holocaust Education Project
Georgia’s Holocaust Learning Trunk Project has been a resounding success with teachers and students throughout the state. The Project is a Claims Conference-funded initiative of the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust to provide middle school students with a comprehensive set of materials on the history and lessons of the Holocaust. Trunks filled with books, posters, […]
Three Promises
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 time in Serbia was used on Jewish citizens. This van and others that followed killed everyone within the hospital — patients, nurses, and doctors, […]
South America: Holocaust Education
After the Holocaust, survivors spread across the world and many settled in South America, which also earned a reputation as a refuge for Nazi war criminals escaping prosecution. Despite this, to many South Americans the Holocaust was of little interest and remained of concern only to survivors and their descendants. The Claims Conference has met […]
