The U.K.’s Historic Kindertransport Which Saved Thousands of Jewish Children Is Nearly Forgotten NEW YORK, NEW YORK: November 10, 2021 – Gideon Taylor, President of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference), today announced the release of a United Kingdom Holocaust Knowledge and Awareness Survey including a comparison among England, Scotland, Wales […]
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 […]
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 […]
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