Payments to Legal Successors One-time and ongoing assistance from the Hardship Fund, Article 2 Fund, CEE Fund, Child Survivor Fund are not transferable and not inheritable. Applicants must be alive when applications to the fund are received. Heirs are not entitled to apply for payments in the Hardship Fund, Article 2 Fund, CEE Fund, Child […]
The Claims Conference, a major sponsor of historical research on the Holocaust, and the World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO) protest in the strongest terms the verdict by a Polish court in a defamation trial brought against international-regarded scholarly experts Professor Barbara Engelking, Director of the Research Centre for the Extermination of Jews (Polish Academy of Sciences), and Professor Jan Grabowski of the University of Ottawa.
In 1990, the new democratic government of East Germany introduced legislation to restitute property that had been nationalized by the former East German Communist regime – known as the Property Law 1990. Even before the reunification of East and West Germany was finalized, the Claims Conference was able to achieve in intense negotiations that this […]
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 Buchenwald in January 1945, and was then sent on a second death march to Theresienstadt where, sick with typhus, he was liberated by the Soviet […]
About 150 Nazi victims in the Washington, D.C. area have received free dental care since 2011 through a partnership of three area organizations, Jewish Social Service Agency (JSSA) in Rockville, MD.; the Alpha Omega International Dental Fraternity’s public service arm, the Alpha Omega Foundation; and the Maimonides Dental Society of Greater Washington. Iosif Fikhman, a […]
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