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Major Jewish Organizations Oppose Proposed Holocaust Insurance Legislation
This post is for historical informational purposes only. Please do not refer to this post for information pertaining to current Claims Conference programs. Visit What We Do for current program guidelines and information. Thank you. June 6, 2011 In a letter to Congress, six major Jewish organizations that have been long-time advocates for Holocaust survivors warn that […]
Documenting Plunder
This post is for historical informational purposes only. Please do not refer to this post for information pertaining to current Claims Conference programs. Visit What We Do for current program guidelines and information. Thank you. May 10, 2011 The Claims Conference has helped launch two initiatives to enable easier and faster searches of records of artworks and […]
BEG Pension Widow Benefit
The Claims Conference wishes to inform you that following successful negotiations with the German government, on 31 March 2021, the German government issued guidelines stating that some widowers or widows of a Jewish Nazi victims who were receiving pension directly from the German government (e.g. BEG) might be eligible for transitional payments (also known as spouse payments).
Mauerbach Hardship Fund
Together with the Federation of Jewish Communities in Austria, the Claims Conference continues to press for the return of all Nazi-looted art objects to former owners or their heirs and for the sale of unclaimed objects for the benefit of victims of Nazi persecution in and from Austria. In 1986, the Claims Conference met with […]
Austrian Bank Fund
The Austrian bank Österreichische Creditanstalt – Wiener Bankverein was taken over by the Nazis in 1938 following the Anschluss and renamed the Creditanstalt Bankverein (CABV). During World War II, the CABV expanded into the Czech Lands, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Ukraine, Yugoslavia, Romania and Bulgaria. By 1942, it fell fully under the control of the Deutsche […]
