The Claims Conference is an organization, created in the aftermath of the Holocaust and the establishment of the State of Israel, that is dedicated to the well-being of Holocaust survivors and to teaching the lessons of the Holocaust. What does that history mean in the context of the horrific attack by Hamas on Israel on […]
“There used to be 30 seconds to get to a shelter once there was a siren, but since the flood of multiple rockets at once, now it is more like 20 seconds,” the social worker at Beit Halperin Nursing Home in Ashkelon told me last week as we stood in a crowded reinforced room, about […]
We are writing with heavy hearts in the wake of the devastating attack at a Chanukah gathering at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia where 15 people were murdered and 38 people more were injured. Among those murdered was Holocaust survivor Alex Kleytman, 87, who was originally from Ukraine. Alex was accompanied by his wife, Larisa. The two were […]
The Claims Conference mourns the loss of Holocaust historian Alex Dancyg, z”l. It is with great sadness that we share that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed the death of Alex Dancyg at some point during his captivity by Hamas. Alex, a 76-year-old educator of the Holocaust and Polish-Jewish history, was taken hostage by Hamas on October 7 from […]
This week marked the 80th anniversary of the Nazi deportation of 1,600 Jews from Rhodes, Greece and the nearby island of Kos. Over 90% of those Jews were murdered in Auschwitz. The very same day – July 23, 1944- the Russian troops liberated Majdanek. It’s hard to comprehend that while the Nazi leadership knew that […]