Connect2 is a program of the Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island, supported by Claims Conference funding. Connect2 offers vital companionship and support to Holocaust Survivors living throughout Brooklyn and Manhattan. Volunteers make regular visits to survivors in their homes. Volunteers hear extraordinary stories, learn courage and perseverance by living example, and have the […]
The Austrian bank Österreichische Creditanstalt – Wiener Bankverein was taken over by the Nazis in 1938 following the Anschluss and renamed the Creditanstalt Bankverein (CABV). During World War II, the CABV expanded into the Czech Lands, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Ukraine, Yugoslavia, Romania and Bulgaria. By 1942, it fell fully under the control of the Deutsche […]
International Holocaust Survivors Night 2019
For the third year in a row, International Holocaust Survivors Night was celebrated around the world with menorah lighting ceremonies during Chanukah to honor and celebrate Holocaust survivors. Events included ceremonies in Germany, the U.S., Russia and at the Kotel in Jerusalem. This year International Holocaust Survivors Night expanded to include Paris.
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 Conference in partnership with the United States Holocaust Museum (USHMM), Katahdin Productions and World Jewish Congress President and Claims Conference Board Member, Ambassador Ronald Lauder.
As a result of annual negotiations with the German government, last summer the Claims Conference obtained recognition, for the first time, for the survivors of Iasi, who were forced to endure pogroms and death trains at the hands of Nazi soldiers and the Romanian authorities.