Topics: Successor Organization
Announcement Regarding the Late Applicants Fund
In 1990, the new democratic government of East Germany introduced legislation to restitute property that had been nationalized by the former East German Communist regime – known as the Property Law 1990. Even before the reunification of East and West Germany was finalized, the Claims Conference was able to achieve in intense negotiations that this […]
The Wertheim Property
The Wertheim Department Store group was among the largest and most distinguished Jewish department stores in pre-Hitler Germany. Wertheim owned a number of stores, including the famous Wertheim Department Store at Leipziger Platz in Berlin. Three Wertheim brothers had majority ownership in the department stores. As early as 1933, Jewish department stores became the focus […]
Issues Regarding Future Income
For background information on this subject, please see: Asset Recovery and Pending Claims As of March 31, 2017, the Claims Conference had filed 124,569 claims covering real estate and businesses as well as additional claims for smaller types of assets. These smaller claims are being handled separately from the real estate and business claims. For the […]
Goodwill Fund
Although the Claims Conference became the successor to unclaimed Jewish properties under German law, it established the Goodwill Fund in 1994 in order to enable former Jewish original owners and their heirs to receive a payment even after the German deadline of 1992. Through the Goodwill Fund, certain former owners and heirs could apply for […]
