Over the past year, the Claims Conference has been negotiating with the Austrian government for additional benefits for Holocaust survivors from Austria. As a result of these negotiations, it was agreed that the Austrian Government would make a payment of โฌ5,087.10 to each former Austrian Jew who has been persecuted by the Nazi Regime or […]
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.
2012 December 17, 2012 For 60th Year, Germany Honors Duty to Pay Holocaust Victims New York Times July 11, 2012 $70 billion on, Claims Conf. marks 60 years of reparations from Germany JTA March 19, 2012 Israeli journalists apologize to Claims Conference over controversial film Haaretz March 19, 2012 Journalists apologize to Claims Conference JTA […]
On Thursday, February 7, 2019, the Claims Conference in partnership with the Paley Center for Media in Los Angeles presented the second edition of a special forum on Holocaust film:ย Eyewitness: Documenting the Holocaust on Film
Piecing Together One Victim’s Story When Karoline Cohn was born in Frankfurt on July 3, 1929, her parents Richard and Else had a necklace pendant made with the words โMazal Tovโ and her birthdate on one side, and the Hebrew letter Hey, a shortened version of Godโs name, on the other. The pendant remained buried for […]
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