Claims Conference

Holocaust survivors in Israel to receive dedicated assistance through new program

Thanks to the Claims Conference, to date, over $90 billion has been paid in indemnification, with $535 million distributed in 2024 to more than 200,000 survivors in 83 countries.

 Holocaust survivors in Israel.
 PRISONERS OF the Auschwitz concentration camp after their liberation by the Red Army in January 1945.

Survey finds lack of Holocaust knowledge in eight countries, but majority fear another genocide

 From right to left: Greg Schneider, Executive Vice President of the Claims Conference Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat, Special Negotiator for the Claims Conference Negotiations Delegation Ambassador Colette Avital

Ensuring 'dignity': Germany increases funds for Holocaust survivors by $114m

 HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR Pinchas Ronen with the daughters of French Righteous Among the Nations Inductee Germaine Chesnau, who saved him.

Holocaust survivors talk online denial in new digital campaign


World leaders, celebrities wish Holocaust survivors ‘Happy Hanukkah’

The live broadcast will feature the candle lighting at the Western Wall where around 100 Holocaust survivors will participate.

 Chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz lights a candle in memory of the victims who were murdered by Hamas militants, at Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv, October 17, 2023.

Germany commits $1.4 billion for Holocaust survivors

The negotiations have resulted in an unprecedented commitment of $1.4 billion for Holocaust survivors worldwide.

 Claims Conference- German government negotiations 2023.

New initiative launched to share, preserve Holocaust survivors' stories

Our Holocaust Story is one of many campaigns that seek to find ways of keeping the memory of the Holocaust alive as the number of survivors continues to decline.

 Holocaust survivor Judith Spielberger Mittelman, 96, who was among 999 Jewish women and girls transported from Slovakia to the Auschwitz concentration camp in one of the first two transportations of women to the camp, shows the numbers tattooed on her arm, March 29, 2022.

Germany to give $720 million to Holocaust survivors globally

The Claims Conference said the funds will be distributed in more than 80 countries, including war-torn Ukraine, where some Holocaust survivors became homeless refugees overnight.

Holocaust survivors renew their wedding vows after 70 years in a ceremony organized by the Claims Conference.

International Holocaust Survivors Night to be held on Hanukkah

The 2021 event is set to be a star-studded one, featuring acclaimed entertainers like Jason Alexander, Mayim Bialik and Tovah Feldshu.

HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS visit the site of the Auschwitz death camp, during ceremonies marking the 73rd anniversary of the camp’s liberation and International Holocaust Victims Remembrance Day, in Poland in January 2018..

Over 50% of Britons don't know how many Jews died in the Holocaust - UK poll

The findings suggest Americans are less knowledgable than Britons.

The Union Jack, the flag of the United Kingdom.

Vaccination project underway for 100,000 Holocaust survivors

The Claims Conference has invested 5 million NIS into an initiative to transport 100,000 housebound Holocaust survivors to and from vaccination centers for the third coronavirus vaccine.

 Eli Bir Yaron Markus Shlomo Gur and Dov Maizel

Testimonies of Holocaust survivors recorded in new digital campaign

The survivors speak about the moments leading up to the Holocaust when hate speech started to turn into acts of violence.

Holocaust survivors renew their wedding vows after 70 years in a ceremony organized by the Claims Conference.

Claims Conference, Hatzalah to vaccinate house-bound Holocaust survivors

Those making use of the service will be taken from their homes to the centers and back home again once they have been vaccinated.

United Hatzalah is helping vaccinate Holocaust survivors against COVID-19.

25% of French millennials say they haven’t heard of the Holocaust - poll

Claims Conference poll finds that there is too little Holocaust education in schools.

People attend a national gathering to protest antisemitism and the rise of anti-Semitic attacks in the Place de la Republique in Paris, France, February 19, 2019.

Decade of change and hope for Holocaust survivors

During the past decade some very welcome changes have occurred, attributable to the new spirit which Yair Lapid infused into the Finance Ministry.

A RELATIVE of a Holocaust survivor places a flower next to the name of a former concentration camp during a ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day at Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem.