We are writing with heavy hearts in the wake of the devastating attack at a Chanukah gathering at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia where 15 people were murdered and 38 people more were injured. Among those murdered was Holocaust survivor Alex Kleytman, 87, who was originally from Ukraine. Alex was accompanied by his wife, Larisa. The two were […]
Agnes Ruben was a young girl of 12 in late 1943, living in Copenhagen, when the Nazis made plans to round up and deport the country’s 7,800 Jews. Agnes’s countrymen saved the girl and her family by ferrying them to Sweden, where they spent the rest of the war years in safety, and then were […]
“Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I cannot say any more than thank you,” Lea Kriesbacher quietly and earnestly whispers into the phone. She rushes on, “If I have one word, it is a dream. A dream which every winter for the past four years has come true.” Lea is one of about 70 survivors […]
Gideon Taylor Elected President; After Four Decades Of Service, Julius Berman Steps Down At The 2020 Annual Board Meeting NEW YORK, NEW YORK: June 30, 2020 Today, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference), announced that Gideon Taylor was elected President of the Claims Conference. The Board also bestowed the title of […]