New: Benefits Available to Holocaust Survivors Under the Czech Republic Social Security Administration Direct compensation payments are made from the Central and Eastern European Fund (CEEF) and the Hardship Fund. Currently, CEEF payments are €336, the same as the Article 2 Fund, as a result of Claims Conference negotiations with the German government. The Claims […]
Rosa Lindenberg and her husband, Leo, both Holocaust survivors, did everything they were supposed to do to save for retirement and their old age. Unfortunately, due to Leo’s prolonged illness, the couple depleted their savings, and Rosa must now rely on the Jewish Family Service of Broward County, and the Claims Conference, for food assistance […]
The Claims Conference provides support to individual social services agencies worldwide to host luncheons, dances, talks, and community events called Café Europa
Penina Nash of Israel was a 5-year-old girl, living with her family in Poland when the Nazis invaded in September 1939. As the German Army advanced, Jews fled eastward through the Soviet Union to safety, trying to stay one step ahead. Penina, her mother and siblings finally reached the shelter of remote Uzbekistan. But when […]
To help ensure that serious study and research of the Holocaust continues even after survivors are gone, the Saul Kagan Claims Conference Fellowships in Advanced Shoah Studies supports selected Ph.D. candidates around the world. Ella Florsheim of Israel grew up listening at the Shabbat table to her grandparents’ tales of surviving the Holocaust. During her […]
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