Current beneficiaries of Claims Conference programs 1. I currently receive a pension. Am I eligible for any other payments? It depends. Here is a quick chart of program compatibility: Claims Conference Fund Can also receive German govβt Ghetto Fund (BADV) or Ghetto Pension (ZRBG) Can also receive German govβt reparations pension (BEG) or Austrian pension […]
The Kindertransport Fund will open January 1, 2019 and begin processing eligible applications. Although some survivors were provided a small payment in the 1950s, prior payments under compensation programs will not bar claimants from receiving this new benefit.
Brzeziny, Poland is 12 miles east of Lodz, and its prewar Jewish population stood at 6,850. The Jews were herded into a ghetto in April 1940, where they suffered starvation, cold, disease, selections for forced labor, and punishment and torture by the Nazis. On Purim 1942, the Nazis ordered that 10 Jews were to be […]
At 11:55 pm on November 9, 1938, Heinrich MΓΌller, chief of the Gestapo, issued an order to all Gestapo offices that began with the following sentence: “Actions against Jews, especially against their synagogues, will take place throughout the Reich shortly.” This understated language, of course, belies the savagery that befell the Jewish communities of Germany […]
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