Overview The Claims Conference helps more than 128,000 Holocaust survivors in over 41 countries through grantee partner agencies. We recognize there are Holocaust survivors living in countries that do not have access to these partner agencies. This program is intended to provide reimbursements for emergency expenses to eligible Holocaust survivors currently living in a country […]
In 2007 the German government established a compensation fund to recognize Holocaust victims who carried out work “without force” during their internment in a Nazi-era ghetto. The fund’s one-time payment of €2,000 was created to acknowledge ghetto survivors who had otherwise been rejected for German Social Security payments (known as the Ghetto Pension under the […]
For Holocaust survivors who were employed for some form of wages while interned in Nazi ghettos.
Katarzyna Meloch-Jackl of Warsaw says she has to live until 90 because she has so much to write about Jewish history and the Shoah. The homecare help she receives from Poland’s Central Jewish Welfare Commission, through funding from the Claims Conference, enables her to have strength to write and record testimonies from survivors like herself. […]
The Claims Conference provides support for in-home care for Holocaust survivors around the world