As a result of annual negotiations with the German government, last summer the Claims Conference obtained recognition, for the first time, for the survivors of Iasi, who were forced to endure pogroms and death trains at the hands of Nazi soldiers and the Romanian authorities.
On Thursday, February 7, 2019, the Claims Conference in partnership with the Paley Center for Media in Los Angeles presented the second edition of a special forum on Holocaust film: Eyewitness: Documenting the Holocaust on Film
The largest concentration of Jewish victims of Nazism in the world reside in Israel. One-third of all elderly in Israel are Holocaust victims. These circumstances, along with extensive cooperation with the Israeli government, give the Claims Conference a role in Israel that is unique among all the countries in which it operates. The Claims Conference […]
About 150 Nazi victims in the Washington, D.C. area have received free dental care since 2011 through a partnership of three area organizations, Jewish Social Service Agency (JSSA) in Rockville, MD.; the Alpha Omega International Dental Fraternity’s public service arm, the Alpha Omega Foundation; and the Maimonides Dental Society of Greater Washington. Iosif Fikhman, a […]