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Canada

Activity Direct compensation payments are made from the Article 2 Fund, the Hardship Fund and the Child Survivor Fund. Toronto Claims Conference grants to home care provider, Circle of Care enable Holocaust survivors to remain in their own homes. Services provided include home care, case management, medical programs, transportation for medical appointments and kosher meal […]


Survivor Story: Manya Dessau

When Manya Dessau turned to JewishCare in Melbourne, Australia for help with medicine expenses, the agency discovered that she was suffering from chronic lower body pain and was struggling to purchase essential food items. Utilizing Claims Conference support, JewishCare arranged home-based physiotherapy for Manya to alleviate her pain and enable her to function more independently. […]


Poland

10-day rehabilitation programs operated by the Commission held twice a year at the Srodborow facility outside of Warsaw. This program assists isolated and disabled Nazi victims in need of psychological support and rehabilitation in a Jewish environment. Activity Beginning in January 2022, CEEF payments increased to €600 per month due to Claims Conference negotiations with […]


Fellow Profile: Ella Florsheim

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 […]


Claims Conference Reaches $1 Billion Agreement with German Government for Survivor Homecare

May 28, 2013 – The Claims Conference has negotiated an agreement under which the German government has committed to provide approximately $1 billion over a four-year period for homecare for Jewish Holocaust victims, with the annual amount increasing every year through 2017. The German government agreed, in its talks with the Claims Conference, to provide €205 million ($266 million) in 2015 – an increase of 45 percent over 2014; €210 million […]


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