Note: These payments ARE NOT administered by the Claims Conference. Download application forms: Claim Form in English/German for Former Ghetto Workers Residing Outside Germany – ZRBG 100En Claim Form in English/German for Former Ghetto Workers Residing Outside Germany (Short Version) – ZRBG 110En Claim Form in English/German for Widow/Widower of Former Ghetto Workers Residing Outside […]
Social Media Campaign To Honor Righteous Among The Nations, Non-Jews Who Risked Everything During The Holocaust To Rescue Jews.
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 […]
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 […]
For Holocaust survivors who were employed for some form of wages while interned in Nazi ghettos.