When Marian Turski was 14, he was forced, with his parents and younger brother, into the Lodz Ghetto and then deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in August 1944. He survived a death march to Buchenwald in January 1945, and was then sent on a second death march to Theresienstadt where, sick with typhus, he was liberated by the Soviet […]
NEW YORK, NEW YORK: May 17, 2022 – Gideon Taylor, President of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference), announced the winner of the Claims Conference’s Short Film, Large Subject Emerging Filmmaker Contest. First place goes to Sabina Vajrača, a Bosnian-American filmmaker who was influenced by her Muslim family’s experience in Bosnia […]
Salo Muller survived the Holocaust in hiding as a child in the Netherlands. Both of his parents were murdered in Auschwitz. Photos: Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk/Dutch Jewish Social Services (JMW) Direct Compensation Programs and Social Services Support Holocaust Survivors in the Netherlands In the Netherlands, the provision of direct compensation to Holocaust survivors is facilitated […]
May 21, 2021 The Claims Conference mourns the passing of one of our beloved board members, Roman Kent z”l. Chairman of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, Roman was a long-time Board member and co-Chair of the Claims Conference negotiating committee. Roman made himself available for every cause we put in front of him, […]
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