Wassili Michailowski, a survivor of the massacre at Babi Yar, shows a picture of himself as a child with his parents before the Holocaust. Photo: Masha Stahlberg, n-ost
The United States House of Representatives has unanimously approved a resolution urging the government of Germany to provide additional funding for services for Holocaust victims. Three hundred sixty-three members of the U.S. Congress sent a clear and unequivocal message to the government of Germany. Acknowledging the significant funding that Germany has provided over the years, […]
Elza Had to Flee Her Home During the Holocaust, and Then Was Forced to Flee Again From the Conflict in Ukraine Elza Gorbanov fled from the Nazis as a young girl living in Donetsk, Ukraine. After the war she and her family returned home, and that is where Elza was recently receiving aid from the Claims Conference, […]
Agnes Ruben was a young girl of 12 in late 1943, living in Copenhagen, when the Nazis made plans to round up and deport the country’s 7,800 Jews. Agnes’s countrymen saved the girl and her family by ferrying them to Sweden, where they spent the rest of the war years in safety, and then were […]
The photographer Roman Vishniac was best known for capturing images of Jewish life in Central and Eastern Europe before the Holocaust. The Claims Conference provided a grant for the exhibition “Roman Vishniac Rediscovered” which took place at the International Center of Photography in New York and is now traveling.