June 5, 2024
![At a Time of Global Strife, Holocaust Education Receives a Much-Needed Increase; Holocaust Survivors Also Receive Increase in Social Welfare Services Funding](https://www.claimscon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/negotiations-24.jpg)
Negotiations between the Claims Conference and the German government, held this year at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City.
Social Welfare Services For Holocaust Survivors Will Increase An Additional €105 Million, Impacting More Than 100,000 Survivors Worldwide. Outcomes ...
Read more June 14, 2023
![Holocaust Survivors Will Continue to Receive Additional One-Time Payments from the German Government Until 2027 As a Result of Claims Conference Negotiations](https://www.claimscon.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CC-German-Govt-Negotiations-2023-website2.jpg)
Home Care Services Funding For Holocaust Survivors Will Increase An Additional $105.2 Million For A Total Of $888.9 Million; Outcomes For These Negotiations Also Include Expanded One-Time Payments Per Year Through 2027, Impacting More Than 128,000 Holocaust Survivors Worldwide.
Read more September 15, 2022
![German Chancellor And Claims Conference Meet To Mark 70th Anniversary Of Historic Reparations Agreements And Announce Negotiations Results Of Over $1.2 Billion](https://www.claimscon.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/CC-BMF-Agreement-2022.jpg)
Negotiations With Germany Result In Emergency Payments For Survivors, Liberalization Of Compensations And Increased Home Care For Holocaust Survivors Globally.
Claims Conference President, Gideon Taylor with German Federal Minister of Finance, Mr. Christian Lindner
NEW YORK, NY: September 15, 2022 — Today, ...
Read more March 1, 2022
![Claims Conference Announces $720 Million USD To 300 Social Welfare Organizations Globally To Support Holocaust Survivors](https://www.claimscon.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/FSU-3.1.22.png)
Allocations Include Nearly $47 Million USD in Social Welfare Services in Ukraine as Claims Conference Continues Commitment to Support Holocaust Survivors in the Face of Imminent Threat
Read more October 13, 2020
![Negotiations Between the Claims Conference and German Government Result in Significant Increases for Holocaust Survivor Programs](https://www.claimscon.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Claims-Conference-Covid-19-Food-Sofia_Bulgaria.jpg)
Faced with the Continued COVID-19 Hardships, Negotiations with the Germany Government Result in Significant Increases in Compensation and Social Services for Holocaust Survivors
Read more July 1, 2019
![Negotiations with the German Government Result in Increased Social Welfare Services for Holocaust Survivors and First Ever Payment for Surviving Spouse](https://www.claimscon.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Claims-Conference-Negotiations-070119.jpg)
NEW YORK, NEW YORK: July 1, 2019 – Today, Julius Berman, President of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference), announced the results of the organization’s negotiations this year with the German Government on behalf of Jewish ...
Read more December 17, 2018
![80th Anniversary of Kindertransport Marked with Compensation Payment to Survivors](https://www.claimscon.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/kindertransport-children-med.jpg)
Claims Conference Ongoing Negotiations With Germany Yield Compensation For Child Survivors Of The Kindertransport
December 17, 2018
Julius Berman, President of the Claims Conference, announced that as a result of ongoing negotiations between the Claims Conference and the German government, an agreement ...
Read more July 10, 2018
![Holocaust Survivors to Receive Increased Social Welfare Services After Negotiations with German Government](https://www.claimscon.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/kent-bosinger-sm.jpg)
Claims Conference Negotiations Nets Additional Funding for Vital Services After German Delegation Hears First-Hand Survivor Testimony
New York, NY
July 10, 2018 – Today, Julius Berman, President of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference), announced the outcomes from the ...
Read more February 5, 2018
![Claims Conference to Compensate Algerian Jews Recognized for First Time by the German Government](https://www.claimscon.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/algeria.jpg)
More Than 25,000 Algerian Jews Who Survived The Holocaust May Now Be Eligible For The First Time For Compensation From The German Government.
PARIS, FRANCE: February 5, 2018 – Julius Berman, President of the Conference on Material Claims Against Germany (Claims ...
Read more June 8, 2016
![U.S. Congress Urges More Funding for Survivor Care](https://www.claimscon.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/20160120_HomeVisit_436-e1465401822488.jpg)
The United States House of Representatives has unanimously approved a resolution urging the government of Germany to provide additional funding for services for Holocaust victims. Three hundred sixty-three members of the U.S. Congress sent a clear and unequivocal message to ...
Read more September 4, 2015
![Holocaust Survivors Begin New Year With More Payments and Aid](https://www.claimscon.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/hardy-zurich.jpg)
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 of Holocaust survivors also go into this year having received acknowledgement of their persecution for ...
Read more January 1, 2015
![Child Survivor Fund Launched](https://www.claimscon.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/child-survivors4.jpg)
Eligible Survivors Should Apply to Receive 2,500 Euro One-Time Payment Applications have been mailed to survivors who the Claims Conference believes may be eligible for its new Child Survivor Fund. The Claims Conference gathered information about these survivors from other ...
Read more December 15, 2014
![Claims Conference Allocating $365 Million for Aid to Holocaust Victims for 2015](https://www.claimscon.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/katarzina-poland-homecare-large.jpg)
Funding Provides Homecare, Medical Care, Food and Other Help in 47 Countries
Elderly Jewish Holocaust victims, the last of their generation to have endured the horrors of the Nazi genocide, will receive significantly more aid in 2015.
In 2015, total Claims Conference ...
Read more September 3, 2014
The Claims Conference has reached a landmark agreement with the German Finance Ministry under which the organization and the German government will together provide assistance to Jewish child survivors of the Holocaust.
“The joint fund will recognize survivors worldwide who were in ...
Read more May 28, 2013
May 28, 2013 – The Claims Conference has negotiated an agreement under which the German government has committed to provide approximately $1 billion over a four-year period for homecare for Jewish Holocaust victims, with the annual amount increasing every year through 2017.
The German government agreed, in its talks with the Claims ...
Read more February 4, 2013
![Claims Conference Pension Changes](https://www.claimscon.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/pension.jpg)
The Claims Conference is very pleased to announce significant changes in the eligibility criteria for Holocaust survivor pensions from the Claims Conference Article 2 Fund and Central and Eastern European Fund (CEEF) as of January 1, 2013. After long and ...
Read more July 10, 2012
Since the establishment of the Central and Eastern European Fund (CEEF) in 1998, which issues pensions to certain Holocaust survivors living in the former Soviet bloc, the Claims Conference has been strongly advocating to the German government that its monthly ...
Read more December 22, 2011
The WJRO and the Claims Conference continue to press governments to provide restitution for property stolen from Jewish owners during the Holocaust.
For years, the Claims Conference has been a constituent member of the World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO), which is ...
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