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Since 1951, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany has sought acknowledgment from the German government by negotiating for compensation, restitution and home care on behalf of Holocaust survivors
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For the next 14 days (Jan 13th – Jan 27th) 80+ Holocaust survivors will state in videos that can be found across the Claims Conference’s social media channels what they would like future generations to remember from their time in Auschwitz. #RememberThis #ISurvivedAuschwitz
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A 2020 survey by the Claims Conference found that 63% of American millennials and Gen Z don’t know six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust. One in ten believes Jews caused the Holocaust.
September 24, 2025 at 1:06 AM
A 2020 survey by the Claims Conference found that 63% of American millennials and Gen Z don’t know six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust. One in ten believes Jews caused the Holocaust.
Michael Newman, chief executive of the Association of Jewish Refugees, said: "Despite being only nine years old, [Holocaust survivor] Vera [Schaufeld 's] strength and courage shone through, as she bravely waved farewell to her parents, never to see them again." #RememberThis
"Through her eloquence and heartfelt storytelling, she brought the human dimension of the Kindertransport to life." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Tributes paid to Holocaust survivor Vera Schaufeld
Holocaust survivor Vera Schaufeld is hailed for her
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November 19, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Michael Newman, chief executive of the Association of Jewish Refugees, said: "Despite being only nine years old, [Holocaust survivor] Vera [Schaufeld 's] strength and courage shone through, as she bravely waved farewell to her parents, never to see them again." #RememberThis
Dr. Rebecca Carter Chand @ushmm.bsky.social was in the first cohort of the #SaulKagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies. Her new @uwiscpress.bsky.social book about the Salvation Army during Nazism has received the George L. Mosse First Book Prize. Mazel tov! uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/C/Chri...
Christian Internationalism and German Belonging
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November 7, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Dr. Rebecca Carter Chand @ushmm.bsky.social was in the first cohort of the #SaulKagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies. Her new @uwiscpress.bsky.social book about the Salvation Army during Nazism has received the George L. Mosse First Book Prize. Mazel tov! uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/C/Chri...
The Mauthausen Memorial Path launch: It is in the memory of those who were killed that the Claims Conference educates about the Holocaust. Education about concentration camps is meant to ensure the lessons of those places do not fade. Learn more about the tour here: mauthausenpath.at
November 6, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The Mauthausen Memorial Path launch: It is in the memory of those who were killed that the Claims Conference educates about the Holocaust. Education about concentration camps is meant to ensure the lessons of those places do not fade. Learn more about the tour here: mauthausenpath.at
Web report | EHRI organised a workshop in Vienna to promote cooperation with related organisations e.g. IHRA, @claims-conference.bsky.social, @fra.europa.eu, Centropa. It was hosted by FRA and VWI, organised by @yadvashem.bsky.social and very inspiring! Read more, www.ehri-project.eu/ehri-multila...
November 3, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The Claims Conference, through negotiations with the German government, provided over $167 million in grants in 2025 to our partner agencies in New York to fund home care assistance, allowing survivors residing in the state to live safely and comfortably in their homes as they age.
#PartnersInCare
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October 30, 2025 at 1:47 PM
The Claims Conference, through negotiations with the German government, provided over $167 million in grants in 2025 to our partner agencies in New York to fund home care assistance, allowing survivors residing in the state to live safely and comfortably in their homes as they age.
#PartnersInCare
#PartnersInCare
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Très heureuse de pouvoir continuer mes recherches sur les spoliations de la propriété privée dont ont été victimes les Juifs pendant la période du nazisme en tant que Saul Kagan Fellow for Advanced Shoah Studies de la @claims-conference.bsky.social
Meet the 18th cohort of the Claims Conference's #SaulKagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies: PhD candidates Lisa Storer, @alexorengog.bsky.social, Eliyau Klein, @harrylegg.bsky.social, Jovana Cveticanin, Alexandra Kramen, and postdocs Margaux Dumas & Borbala Klacsmann. fellowships.claimscon.org
October 22, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Très heureuse de pouvoir continuer mes recherches sur les spoliations de la propriété privée dont ont été victimes les Juifs pendant la période du nazisme en tant que Saul Kagan Fellow for Advanced Shoah Studies de la @claims-conference.bsky.social
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Honored to be part of this year's Claims Conference's Saul Kagan Fellowship cohort!
Meet the 18th cohort of the Claims Conference's #SaulKagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies: PhD candidates Lisa Storer, @alexorengog.bsky.social, Eliyau Klein, @harrylegg.bsky.social, Jovana Cveticanin, Alexandra Kramen, and postdocs Margaux Dumas & Borbala Klacsmann. fellowships.claimscon.org
October 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Honored to be part of this year's Claims Conference's Saul Kagan Fellowship cohort!
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CALL | Excellent opportunity for Eastern European based Universities!
Claims Conference @claims-conference.bsky.social University Partnership Program in Holocaust Studies
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Claims Conference @claims-conference.bsky.social University Partnership Program in Holocaust Studies
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July 17, 2025 at 11:20 AM
CALL | Excellent opportunity for Eastern European based Universities!
Claims Conference @claims-conference.bsky.social University Partnership Program in Holocaust Studies
www.ehri-project.eu/call-for-eas...
Claims Conference @claims-conference.bsky.social University Partnership Program in Holocaust Studies
www.ehri-project.eu/call-for-eas...
Die Claims Conference präsentiert in einem Bildband 36 Männer und Frauen, die während der Schoa ihr Leben riskierten, um Juden zu retten.
„Stärker als die Angst ist das menschliche Herz“
Die Claims Conference präsentiert in einem Bildband 36 Männer und Frauen, die während der Schoa ihr Leben riskierten, um Juden zu retten
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October 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
We welcome @comeniusuni.bsky.social and Uzhhorod National University to the Claims Conference's University Partnership in #Holocaust Studies! Learn about the vision for #HolocaustEducation at the Ukrainian institution: www.uzhnu.edu.ua/en/news/The-...
“The Holocaust Transformed the Postwar World and the Memory of War”: An International Project Dedicated to the Holocaust Launched at Uzhhorod University
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October 21, 2025 at 6:49 PM
We welcome @comeniusuni.bsky.social and Uzhhorod National University to the Claims Conference's University Partnership in #Holocaust Studies! Learn about the vision for #HolocaustEducation at the Ukrainian institution: www.uzhnu.edu.ua/en/news/The-...
Meet the 18th cohort of the Claims Conference's #SaulKagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies: PhD candidates Lisa Storer, @alexorengog.bsky.social, Eliyau Klein, @harrylegg.bsky.social, Jovana Cveticanin, Alexandra Kramen, and postdocs Margaux Dumas & Borbala Klacsmann. fellowships.claimscon.org
October 17, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Meet the 18th cohort of the Claims Conference's #SaulKagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies: PhD candidates Lisa Storer, @alexorengog.bsky.social, Eliyau Klein, @harrylegg.bsky.social, Jovana Cveticanin, Alexandra Kramen, and postdocs Margaux Dumas & Borbala Klacsmann. fellowships.claimscon.org
Over Sukkot, in partnership with the Claims Conference, Westchester Jewish Community Services hosted a group of 60 Holocaust survivors for a luncheon. The survivors reminded everyone in attendance of the true meaning of the Zman Simchateinu- the Holiday of Our Joy.
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Holocaust Survivors Celebrate Sukkot
WJCS Hosts Celebration for Holocaust Survivors
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October 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Over Sukkot, in partnership with the Claims Conference, Westchester Jewish Community Services hosted a group of 60 Holocaust survivors for a luncheon. The survivors reminded everyone in attendance of the true meaning of the Zman Simchateinu- the Holiday of Our Joy.
https://bit.ly/47h6YIH
https://bit.ly/47h6YIH
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On 8 October 1939 the first ghetto was opened at Piotrków. This was soon followed by the ghetto in Radomsko, and the first major ghetto in Łódź in February 1940
Over the following two years, hundreds of ghettos would be established across Poland
Learn more #TheHolocaustExplained
Over the following two years, hundreds of ghettos would be established across Poland
Learn more #TheHolocaustExplained
What were the ghettos and camps? – The Holocaust Explained: Designed for schools
This map, created by Herbert Froboess and entitled Deutschland 1945, shows some of the camps in Nazi Germany and some of the surrounding occupied countries.
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October 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM
On 8 October 1939 the first ghetto was opened at Piotrków. This was soon followed by the ghetto in Radomsko, and the first major ghetto in Łódź in February 1940
Over the following two years, hundreds of ghettos would be established across Poland
Learn more #TheHolocaustExplained
Over the following two years, hundreds of ghettos would be established across Poland
Learn more #TheHolocaustExplained
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Mazel tov to Robert French, the new CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas!
Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas announces Robert French as new CEO
French succeeds Rabbi Mordechai Harris, who served as interim CEO from January to September.
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September 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Mazel tov to Robert French, the new CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas!
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The Stupnickas and the Jews they had rescued remained close and on September 19, 1984, Yad Vashem recognized Janina and her daughter Anna as Righteous Among the Nations.
A digital version of STRONGER THAN FEAR is available at claimscon.org/stronger-than-fear.
A digital version of STRONGER THAN FEAR is available at claimscon.org/stronger-than-fear.
March 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The Stupnickas and the Jews they had rescued remained close and on September 19, 1984, Yad Vashem recognized Janina and her daughter Anna as Righteous Among the Nations.
A digital version of STRONGER THAN FEAR is available at claimscon.org/stronger-than-fear.
A digital version of STRONGER THAN FEAR is available at claimscon.org/stronger-than-fear.
We are grateful for the 25 years Rabbi Menachem Hacohen z”l devoted to the Claims Conference and our mission to provide for Holocaust survivors and to ensure that the lessons of the Holocaust are not forgotten. May his memory be a blessing and legacy inspire us to carry on his vision of unity.
September 3, 2025 at 4:57 PM
We are grateful for the 25 years Rabbi Menachem Hacohen z”l devoted to the Claims Conference and our mission to provide for Holocaust survivors and to ensure that the lessons of the Holocaust are not forgotten. May his memory be a blessing and legacy inspire us to carry on his vision of unity.
"Hearing from a survivor made history feel personal."
At a Cape Town Holocaust and Genocide Center program – in partnership with Yahad–In Unum and supported by a Claims Conference grant – 40 teachers from 5 African nations explored teaching the Holocaust in today’s world.
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At a Cape Town Holocaust and Genocide Center program – in partnership with Yahad–In Unum and supported by a Claims Conference grant – 40 teachers from 5 African nations explored teaching the Holocaust in today’s world.
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African Teachers Gather in South Africa for Holocaust Education Training Amid Rising Antisemitism
Teachers from South Africa, Nigeria, Namibia, Botswana, and Eswatini gather for a weeklong Holocaust education training program. Photo: Cape Town …
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August 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM
"Hearing from a survivor made history feel personal."
At a Cape Town Holocaust and Genocide Center program – in partnership with Yahad–In Unum and supported by a Claims Conference grant – 40 teachers from 5 African nations explored teaching the Holocaust in today’s world.
https://bit.ly/4lSA7z4
At a Cape Town Holocaust and Genocide Center program – in partnership with Yahad–In Unum and supported by a Claims Conference grant – 40 teachers from 5 African nations explored teaching the Holocaust in today’s world.
https://bit.ly/4lSA7z4
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"..but you weren't liberated from what happened to you.
"The Shoah lives inside you, it doesn't disappear."
"The Shoah lives inside you, it doesn't disappear."
Pinchas Gutter and his family witnessed the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, hidden in a bunker until being discovered in May 1943 and deported to Majdanek, where his mother, Chaya, his father, Menachem, and his twin sister, Sabina, were murdered. Pinchas was liberated from Theresienstadt on May 8, 1945.
August 27, 2025 at 3:40 PM
"..but you weren't liberated from what happened to you.
"The Shoah lives inside you, it doesn't disappear."
"The Shoah lives inside you, it doesn't disappear."
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How does age affect people’s experiences in times of humanitarian crisis? This forthcoming book coedited by @ceschmidt.bsky.social, Betsy Anthony, and me explores the lives of #OlderJews before, during, and after the #Holocaust. wsupress.wayne.edu/9780814352052/
August 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
How does age affect people’s experiences in times of humanitarian crisis? This forthcoming book coedited by @ceschmidt.bsky.social, Betsy Anthony, and me explores the lives of #OlderJews before, during, and after the #Holocaust. wsupress.wayne.edu/9780814352052/
Pinchas Gutter and his family witnessed the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, hidden in a bunker until being discovered in May 1943 and deported to Majdanek, where his mother, Chaya, his father, Menachem, and his twin sister, Sabina, were murdered. Pinchas was liberated from Theresienstadt on May 8, 1945.
August 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Pinchas Gutter and his family witnessed the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, hidden in a bunker until being discovered in May 1943 and deported to Majdanek, where his mother, Chaya, his father, Menachem, and his twin sister, Sabina, were murdered. Pinchas was liberated from Theresienstadt on May 8, 1945.
A Claims Conference supported film, Oscar-winning filmmaker László Nemes’s “Orphan” follows a boy's discovery of his mother’s survival during WW2 when a man claiming to be his missing father returns. The film will compete for the Golden Lion at this year's Venice International Film Festival.
August 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
A Claims Conference supported film, Oscar-winning filmmaker László Nemes’s “Orphan” follows a boy's discovery of his mother’s survival during WW2 when a man claiming to be his missing father returns. The film will compete for the Golden Lion at this year's Venice International Film Festival.
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#DOCNYCfest WORLD PREMIERE: PLUNDER, directed by Hugo Macgregor. “It’s not every day that you meet an old Nazi.” So begins Jonathan Petropoulos recalling the day when he met Bruno Lohse, Hermann Göring’s art agent, during WW2 @docnycfest.bsky.social #HolocaustEducation
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November 14, 2024 at 4:24 PM
#DOCNYCfest WORLD PREMIERE: PLUNDER, directed by Hugo Macgregor. “It’s not every day that you meet an old Nazi.” So begins Jonathan Petropoulos recalling the day when he met Bruno Lohse, Hermann Göring’s art agent, during WW2 @docnycfest.bsky.social #HolocaustEducation
www.docnyc.net/film/plunder...
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“Freezing weather and epidemics – but these horrors were only details. The most significant thing was the gas chamber and the crematorium. This was the logical end for any Jew entering Birkenau” – Algerian-born Holocaust survivor Gabriel Bénichou, Dec 15, 1926 – Jul 23, 2025.
July 30, 2025 at 6:16 PM
“Freezing weather and epidemics – but these horrors were only details. The most significant thing was the gas chamber and the crematorium. This was the logical end for any Jew entering Birkenau” – Algerian-born Holocaust survivor Gabriel Bénichou, Dec 15, 1926 – Jul 23, 2025.
“In every encounter with a survivor, I see a spark of the ability to rebuild life. Our partnership with the Claims Conference allows us to turn compassion into daily action" - Natali Zohar, Dir of the Department of Social Services in Netivot.
#PartnersInCare
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July 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
“In every encounter with a survivor, I see a spark of the ability to rebuild life. Our partnership with the Claims Conference allows us to turn compassion into daily action" - Natali Zohar, Dir of the Department of Social Services in Netivot.
#PartnersInCare
#PartnersInCare