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Treblinka survivors

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.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Holocaust survivors in Israel.
Polish-born Holocaust survivor Meyer Hack shows his prisoner number tattooed on his arm during a news conference at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem June 15, 2009.

Aid provided to Holocaust survivors by National Insurance Institute

The institute said it pays a supplement to survivors’ pensions and those who have no pensions due to their low-income threshold and to ensure at least a minimum income for subsistence. 

|ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Treblinka German death camp in Poland railway sign at Yad Vashem.

On This Day: 79 years since Jews revolted at Nazi's Treblinka death camp

The revolt saw only a few Jews manage to escape the extermination camp, with only 70 surviving until the end of the war. But it crippled the camp in its final months.

|ByAARON REICH
Purported photo of John Demjanjuk

Newly discovered photos of Nazi death camp may show guard Demjanjuk

The photos described by historian Martin Cueppers as a representing a "quantum leap in the visual record on the Holocaust in occupied Poland," had belonged to former deputy commandant Johann Niemann.

|ByREUTERS

The growing needs of Holocaust survivors in the US

This year, the organization announced an inaugural Elie Wiesel Memorial Award in honor of the late Nobel Peace Prize laureate, human rights activist and Holocaust survivor.

JANUARY 27, 2017
SARAH MIZRACHI (left) ran in the New York Marathon in November to raise money for The Blue Card and help people like Auschwitz survivor Irene Hizme. They are pictured with Masha Pearl, the NGO’s executive director.

Letter from Destiny

The Jerusalem Report uncovers the saga of how a father manages to ensure the safety of his three-year-old son minutes before he and his wife are sent to Treblinka.

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015
Ricardo Benadon and Jasmina Namiceva visit the Skopje Jewish cemetery