May 28, 2013 โ The Claims Conference has negotiated an agreement under which the German government has committed to provide approximately $1 billion over a four-year period for homecare for Jewish Holocaust victims, with the annual amount increasing every year through 2017. The German government agreed, in its talks with the Claims Conference, to provide โฌ205 million ($266 million) in 2015 โ an increase of 45 percent over 2014; โฌ210 million […]
Agencies that receive Claims Conference grants are required to acknowledge the Claims Conference on websites and in press materials
Please note: This program is closed. In 2000, the Claims Conference intensified its property negotiations with Austria, contending that over the last 50 years Austria had not adequately addressed the major material losses of its Jewish population during the Holocaust. Not only was the First Republic unable to protect a part of its citizens from […]
United States Restitution payments paid to a Nazi victim, his or her heirs or estate, are not subject to federal income tax.ย See IRS Publication 525 at page 34. This exclusionย includes payments made by a foreignย government, the United States, or any foreign or domestic entity.ย Certain types ofย interest earned on these payments […]
For years, the Claims Conference has been a constituent member of the World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO), which is charged with the recovery of confiscated property from countries in Central and Eastern Europe. Together with local Jewish communities, the WJRO and the Claims Conference continue to press governments to provide for the restitution of, or […]