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“La bergère rentrant des moutons,” (La Bergère or Shepherdess Bringing in the Sheep ), painted by Jewish artist Camille Pissarro in 1886

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

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

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

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

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…

Poland homecare

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…

The painting "Couple in the Countryside" by Conrad Felixmüller is listed among works in the Gurlitt collection.

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

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

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

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

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

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 …

Hungarian Holocaust survivors

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…

Claims Conference Reaches $1 Billion Agreement with German Government for Survivor Homecare

May 28, 2013 – The Claims Conference has negotiated an agreement under which the German government has committed to provide a…

Claims Conference Pension Changes

Claims Conference Pension Changes

The Claims Conference is very pleased to announce significant changes in the eligibility criteria for Holocaust survivor pensions from the Claims Conf…

Helping survivors After Hurricane Sandy

Helping survivors After Hurricane Sandy

With the region’s recovery from the storm slow and continuing for some time, the Claims Conference has been working on numerous fronts to assist survi…

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