Search Results for: help_search1.asp
To Commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Claims Conference Launches New Innovative Social Media Campaign: #DONTBEABYSTANDER
Social Media Campaign To Honor Righteous Among The Nations, Non-Jews Who Risked Everything During The Holocaust To Rescue Jews.
German Government Ghetto Fund – BADV
In 2007 the German government established a compensation fund to recognize Holocaust victims who carried out work “without force” during their internment in a Nazi-era ghetto. The fund’s one-time payment of €2,000 was created to acknowledge ghetto survivors who had otherwise been rejected for German Social Security payments (known as the Ghetto Pension under the […]
Survivor Story: Rene Hammond
Growing up in Czechoslovakia, Rene Hammond, née Koenigsberg, learned in school to speak fluent Hungarian, Czech, and English – skills she says equipped her for survival after the Nazis invaded. On May 16, 1944, 18-year-old Rene and her family were sent to a ghetto, where a non-Jewish friend would sneak food to her. After three […]
German Social Security Ghetto Pension – ZRBG
For Holocaust survivors who were employed for some form of wages while interned in Nazi ghettos.
Survivor Stories: Hyman and Anna Kirsh
Hyman Kirsh and his wife, Anna, have lived in Philadelphia since they came to the United States in 1947. Both from Ciechanow, Poland, a city 60 miles northwest of Warsaw, they had never crossed paths until the war ended, when Hyman found the young woman sleeping on the floor of a Jewish community center in […]
