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The Claims Conference negotiates agreements with the German government to provide compensation payments and in-home care to Holocaust survivors
Direct compensation payments are made from the Article 2 Fund and the Hardship Fund. The Claims Conference negotiates on an ongoing basis with the German government to include additional Nazi victims in compensation programs, increase payments, and provide increased funds for social services. The social situation of Nazi victims in Denmark is more difficult compared […]
One of the chief ongoing priorities for the Claims Conference has been to identify, collect, preserve, and make available Holocaust-era documentation. We are giving the world the tools it will need to learn about the Shoah and thus remember it long after its last survivors are here to tell of it. Our two main partners […]
Norbert Wollheim, a survivor of Auschwitz and the Buna/Monowitz labor camp, and the first person (in 1951) to successfully sue German industry for work performed while an inmate at a concentration camp, was posthumously honored as Goethe University Frankfurt renamed a plaza in his memory. The University renamed the Grรผneburgplatz as the Norbert-Wollheim-Platz. The space […]