Claims Conference

Global Holocaust survivor population drops to about 196,000 worldwide, half in Israel, data shows

New data shows the global number of Holocaust survivors has fallen to about 196,000, with nearly half living in Israel and most having survived as children.

Hanoch Shahar, 90-year-old Holocaust survivor presents items from the Holocaust in the northern Israeli city of Safed, April 23, 2025; illustrative.
 Holocaust survivors in Israel.

Holocaust survivors in Israel to receive dedicated assistance through new program

 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


Claims Conference silent on reports of government probe

The New York-based organization is the primary Jewish communal interlocutor with Germany for Holocaust reparation issues, with an annual budget in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

Survivors of the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz arrive to the former camp in Oswiecim.

Candidly Speaking: A disgrace: New York attorney general investigates Claims Conference?

Although the New York State Office of the Attorney General does not confirm ongoing inquiries, it has in fact launched a probe into the management of the Claims Conference.

Holocaust survivors at Auschwitz.

Layoffs at Claims Conference Tel Aviv office

Employee: It will affect how we can service our clients.

A red rose lies at Gleis 17 (platform 17) holocaust memorial at a former cargo railway station in Berlin-Grunewald

Claims Conference: Little progress made on looted Holocaust art

Despite pledges to find and return art looted by the Nazis found within their borders, little follow up action has been taken by the nations of Europe, Jewish groups find.

Museum visitors study "Adele Bloch-Bauer I," a 1907 painting by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt at a special exhibition of Klimt paintings looted by the Nazis during World War II.

Memo to the Claims Conference: We Holocaust survivors are not dead yet

The organization has plans to re-invent itself to focus on Holocaust education, and pay for the programs by asking Germany for the money.

Holocaust survivors arrive at Auschwitz

A week of highlights

American Kent Nagano conducts the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in a series of concerts next week.

American Kent Nagano conducts the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in a series of concerts next week

Property stolen during the Nazi terror must be returned

As the largest representative of claimants who have not yet received their property from the Claims Conference, we (Claimants Representative Committee, CRC) have read your above article with interest.

A motorcycle helmet with Nazi swastika sign for sale 370

For whom the Claims Conference tolls?

Were the Jewish presses in Poland stolen during the war and transported to Germany worthless? Why this sudden loss of interest in stolen Jewish property? Is this not what the Claims Conference should take care of?

Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor Miriam Helman 370

No end to Claims Conference distortions and shamelessness

The mishandling of sacred Holocaust restitution funds represents the greatest moral failure of organized Jewish life in our generation.

Berman Julius 370

Claims and counterclaims

The Claims Conference should be subject to an open, honest investigation. It should also, however, be treated fairly.

Berman Julius 370