The Claims Conference provides grant funds to European universities for the purposes of teaching Holocaust courses for one year and is currently seeking universities that are interested in creating a ...

Nearly 300 people filled to capacity the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center in Manhattan for a movie screening of Who Will Write Our History. The event was hosted by the Claims ...

Piecing Together One Victim’s Story
When Karoline Cohn was born in Frankfurt on July 3, 1929, her parents Richard and Else had a necklace pendant made with the words “Mazal Tov” and ...

At 11:55 pm on November 9, 1938, Heinrich Müller, chief of the Gestapo, issued an order to all Gestapo offices that began with the following sentence: “Actions against Jews, especially ...

For a moment, Emily Knopf, a student at a Jewish high school in New York, was a young Adele Green, who grew up in Poland and witnessed the murder of ...

On view at the Museum of Jewish Heritage through August 14, 2016, “Stitching History From the Holocaust” was created by and is on loan from the Jewish Museum Milwaukee. ...

“Transports to Extinction: Shoah (Holocaust) Deportation Database Project” includes Yad Vashem’s research into the deportation of Jews from every Jewish community in Europe during the Holocaust.

Luca Fenoglio’s interest in the Holocaust started when he was growing up in Italy. “As a teenager, I found several books on Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and the Holocaust in ...

The Provenance Research Training Program (PRTP) focuses on provenance research (documenting the ownership history of an object from inception to the present day) and related issues concerning Nazi-looted art, Judaica, and ...

The photographer Roman Vishniac was best known for capturing images of Jewish life in Central and Eastern Europe before the Holocaust. The Claims Conference provided a grant for the exhibition “Roman Vishniac Rediscovered” which took place ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Claims Conference allocates funds for projects relating to looted art and cultural property.
ERR Project
The compiling and making available of the records of the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR).
Nazi-Era Provenance Internet Portal
(NEPIP): ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...