The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany has launched #CancelHate, a new digital campaign.
The campaign features Holocaust survivors reading Holocaust...
The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) in commemoration of Kristallnacht, has relaunched its Holocaust survivor-led,...
The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference), announced an important achievement for survivors with first-time pensions being allotted for Holocaust survivors who survived the Leningrad Siege, survivors who were in hiding in France and those who survived persecution in Romania, and who are not currently receiving Shoah related pensions.
Gideon Taylor and Rabbi Israel Meir Lau: This is not just about the history of the Jews. This is about the history of the world and is at risk of being forgotten.
The country, which perpetrated mass murder against Jews and other minorities between 1933 and 1945, also agreed to increase pensions to 55,000 Holocaust survivors in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as to expand eligibility for child survivors.
It is now almost a decade since I began urging for drastic reform and change of leadership in the wake of successive scandals relating to the mismanagement of the Claims Conference, the organization entrusted to pursue justice on behalf of the Jewish people for Holocaust victims and survivors...writes Isi leibler.
Once again, as we commemorated the victims of the Holocaust, what was highlighted was the grinding poverty of elderly survivors unable to live out their few remaining years with a semblance of dignity.
Three care organisations in Australia who provide homecare services for Holocaust survivors will received US$10.7 million in 2015 from the Claims Conference.
After extensive discussion among more than 60 representatives from its member organizations at the annual meeting of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference), the Board of Directors voted on the long-term future direction of the organization that has, for over the past six decades, advocated on behalf of Jewish Holocaust victims and their heirs.
Changes to Claims Conference eligibility guidelines will allow Sydney's JewishCare to substantially increase the number of home support packages that enables Survivors to remain living in their own homes.
For more than a decade, there have been passionate pleas for the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, the organization responsible since its inception for the distribution of over $70 billion of restitution payments, to review its management, governance and oversight procedures and prioritize the distribution of discretionary funds so that aged Holocaust survivors desperately in need of assistance could live out their remaining years with a modicum of dignity.
There are officially less than 500 child survivors of the Holocaust registered with in Australia...but the Claims Conference has announced that financial compensation may soon become available through the Government of Germany and needs to make widespread contact with those eligible to claim.
Julius Berman has circulated members of his Board with an 11 page diatribe in response to the recent flood of criticisms relating to the flawed management, lack of oversight and absence of transparency in the Claims Conference.
