Holocaust Survivors and Their Family Members Launch Year-Long Digital Campaign – Our Holocaust Story – Sharing Stories of Survival That Made Their Families Possible – on Holocaust Remembrance Day
Before the Holocaust Toman Brod, born in 1929, grew up in a well-to-do assimilated Jewish family in Prague, which he described as “an idyllic city” before the war. He never experienced anti-Semitism and had Jews and non-Jews as friends. Toman recalls the delicious food that Anci Kopska, the family’s cook, prepared, including “superb” bread dumplings, […]
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.
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.