The Claims Conference, in partnership with the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, has announced its first-ever, global film series in commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day. All films were supported by the Claims Conference and focus on Holocaust-related topics. The film series will be hosted April 13 through April 20 globally, with screenings occurring in Frankfurt and Berlin in Germany as well as all five boroughs of New York City.
The Claims Conference Releases a Cutting-Edge Mixed-Reality Experience Detailing the Heartbreaking and Inspiring Story of Benno Kern, from Anschluss to Auschwitz to Liberation in Buchenwald.
In late 1996 and early 1997, a series of class action lawsuits were filed in United States District Court against three Swiss banks. The suits alleged that the Swiss banks knowingly retained and concealed assets of Holocaust victims, and collaborated with and aided the Third Reich by accepting and laundering illegally obtained Nazi assets and profits of slave labor.
Wassili Michailowski, a survivor of the massacre at Babi Yar, shows a picture of himself as a child with his parents before the Holocaust. Photo: Masha Stahlberg, n-ost