May 21, 2021 The Claims Conference mourns the passing of one of our beloved board members, Roman Kent z”l. Chairman of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, Roman was a long-time Board member and co-Chair of the Claims Conference negotiating committee. Roman made himself available for every cause we put in front of him, […]
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 […]
Although the Claims Conference became the successor to unclaimed Jewish properties under German law, it established the Goodwill Fund in 1994 in order to enable former Jewish original owners and their heirs to receive a payment even after the German deadline of 1992. Through the Goodwill Fund, certain former owners and heirs could apply for […]
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 โ 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 […]