First-Of-Its-Kind Global Report on the Declining Population of Holocaust Survivors Underscores the Urgency to Engage With This Final Generation of Eyewitnesses Report Indicates 70 Percent Of World’s Holocaust Survivors Will Be Gone In The Next 10 Years. There Are Estimated To Be More Than 1,400 Holocaust Survivors Alive Today Who Are Over 100 Years Old. […]
Elza Had to Flee Her Home During the Holocaust, and Then Was Forced to Flee Again From the Conflict in Ukraine Elza Gorbanov fled from the Nazis as a young girl living in Donetsk, Ukraine. After the war she and her family returned home, and that is where Elza was recently receiving aid from the Claims Conference, […]
The Austrian bank Österreichische Creditanstalt – Wiener Bankverein was taken over by the Nazis in 1938 following the Anschluss and renamed the Creditanstalt Bankverein (CABV). During World War II, the CABV expanded into the Czech Lands, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Ukraine, Yugoslavia, Romania and Bulgaria. By 1942, it fell fully under the control of the Deutsche […]
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 “Mazal Tov” and her birthdate on one side, and the Hebrew letter Hey, a shortened version of God’s name, on the other. The pendant remained buried for […]
After the Holocaust, survivors spread across the world and many settled in South America, which also earned a reputation as a refuge for Nazi war criminals escaping prosecution. Despite this, to many South Americans the Holocaust was of little interest and remained of concern only to survivors and their descendants. The Claims Conference has met […]