They met in secret to negotiate the unthinkable — compensation for the survivors of the largest mass genocide in history. Survivors were in urgent need of help, but how could reparations be determined for the unprecedented destruction and suffering of a people? Reckonings explores this untold true story set in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Directed by […]
The U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) has recently issued several announcements regarding the exemption of Holocaust-related compensation payments from being considered in calculating income for purposes of Social Security payments. ZRBG (German Social Security Pension for Work in Ghettos): The SSA issued an “Emergency Message” in 2014, providing SSA staff with operating instructions to help […]
A new permanent exhibition at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum has updated decades-old information with a compelling format, placing the murder of more than 1 million Jews at the death camp in the larger context of the Holocaust. The Auschwitz Pavilion, created in the camp’s former Block 27, was designed and built by Yad Vashem and funded […]
An incredible Purim party was held for Holocaust survivors and members of a supportive community at Beit Moriah in Be’er Sheva in Israel this week. In a bright room full of music and dancing, survivors came together to connect, remember and – above all – celebrate! In this community, the Claims Conference has been supporting […]
Please note: The application deadline for the 2024 Romanian Survivor Relief Program has expired. New applications for this program can no longer be accepted. The funds are to be distributed to Jewish Nazi victims who lived under Romanian regime any time between 1937 and 1944. These funds are from the restitution of communal properties wrongfully […]