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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 […]
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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, […]
Katarzyna Meloch-Jackl
Katarzyna Meloch-Jackl of Warsaw says she has to live until 90 because she has so much to write about Jewish history and the Shoah. The homecare help she receives from Poland’s Central Jewish Welfare Commission, through funding from the Claims Conference, enables her to have strength to write and record testimonies from survivors like herself. […]
Stitching History From the Holocaust
On view at the Museum of Jewish Heritage through August 14, 2016, “Stitching History From the Holocaust” was created by and is on loan from the Jewish Museum Milwaukee. The Claims Conference helped fund the exhibit.
