Claims Conference Visit to Iasi, Romania
As a result of annual negotiations with the German government, last summer the Claims Conference obtained recognition, for the first time, for the sur…
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U.S. Congress Urges More Funding for Survivor Care
The United States House of Representatives has unanimously approved a resolution urging the government of Germany to provide additional funding for se…
Claims Conference Appoints Ayelet Metzger as Ombudsman
The Claims Conference has appointed Ayelet Metzger as Ombudsman, following a lengthy international search, announced President Julius Berman. Ms. Metz…
Claims Conference Website Helps Holocaust Survivor Recover Pissarro Painting
The recent return of a Nazi-looted Pissarro painting to a French Holocaust survivor began when her family discovered it in a Claims Conference online …
Holocaust Survivors Begin New Year With More Payments and Aid
Elderly Holocaust survivors around the world are beginning the Jewish new year of 5776 receiving more care and aid than ever before. Tens of thousands…
Child Survivor Fund Makes First Payments
Holocaust survivors who were children at the time have begun to receive payments under a landmark agreement reached with the German government. The sy…
Child Survivor Fund Launched
Eligible Survivors Should Apply to Receive 2,500 Euro One-Time Payment Applications have been mailed to survivors who the Claims Conference believes m…
Social Security Administration Announcement 2014
The U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) has recently issued several announcements regarding the exemption of Holocaust-related compensation paym…
Claims Conference Allocating $365 Million for Aid to Holocaust Victims for 2015
Funding Provides Homecare, Medical Care, Food and Other Help in 47 Countries Elderly Jewish Holocaust victims, the last of their generation to have en…
Gurlitt Trove Investigation Must Intensify, Transparency Increase
With the Bern Kunstmuseum’s announcement that it will accept ownership of the Gurlitt artwork collection, the Claims Conference calls on Germany to in…
Claims Conference Launches International Short Film Contest for Graduate Students and Recent Grads
Winner to Receive $40,000 to Produce Holocaust Film Short The Claims Conference has launched “Short Film, Large Subject: The Holocaust Film Competitio…
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 …
Claims Conference Reaches Landmark Agreement with Germany to Assist Child Survivors of the Holocaust
The Claims Conference has reached a landmark agreement with the German Finance Ministry under which the organization and the German government will to…
Claims Conference Board of Directors Charts Future Course at Annual Meeting
Establishes Demographic Research & Policy Unit to Track Shoah Victim Needs Board Approves Recommendations of Structure & Governance Panel; Off…
Ukraine Update
Mihail, 82, had not left his one-room Kiev apartment since the recent unrest in the Ukrainian capital turned violent. Frightened and alone, he was in…
Claims Conference Recommends Two Appointees to Gurlitt Art Task Force
Experts in Looted Art and Restitution; Calls for Transparency, Cites Moral Imperative January 8, 2014 — To assist in determining the extent and …
Holocaust Victims to Receive an Additional $4 Million in Aid From Weinberg Foundation Grant to Claims Conference
The Claims Conference has received an additional $4 million grant from the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation to provide emergency assistance to H…
Nazi-Looted Art Trove Discovered in Munich Must Be Made Public to Aid Restitution
Contact information for inquiries about the artworks discovered in Munich 1) The Coordination Office for Lost Art in Magdeburg: Koordinierungsstelle M…
New Online Video Series Provides Expert Guidance On Health & Well-Being For Family Caregivers Of Holocaust Survivors
New Approaches Provide Vital Support for Non-Professional Caregivers September 30 – The Claims Conference today announced the launch of its Caregiver …
Hungary Releases Promised $5.6 Million to Claims Conference for Holocaust Survivor Aid Worldwide
The Claims Conference is pleased to announce that the government of Hungary, after protracted and difficult talks over the course of several years, ha…
