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Compensation Direct compensation payments are made from the Article 2 Fund and the Hardship Fund. The Claims Conference negotiates on an ongoing basis with the German government to include additional Nazi victims in compensation programs, increase payments, and provide increased funds for social services. Cuts to federal Supplemental Security Income and adult day health care, […]
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 […]
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.
