Senate committee advances restitution bill for Holocaust survivors
(JTA) — The Senate Foreign Relations Committee advanced a bill that will help Holocaust survivors and the families of victims obtain restitution or the return of Holocaust-era assets. On Tuesday, the...
View ArticleA New Project of Survivors’ Stories in Drawings, Letters, and Video Interviews
In the wake of #badderthantaylor, we can probably all think of a few elder Jewish women (and men) whose life stories could be a book or a feature film. Like Gerta, whose nightmarish life in...
View ArticleSenior citizens need subsidized housing in Israel. A New Jersey foundation...
(JTA) — A New Jersey-based foundation is granting $5 million to a Jewish Agency for Israel initiative providing subsidized housing for senior citizens in Israel. The Wilf Family Foundation on Thursday...
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It’s the end of an era for America’s first all-kosher supermarket
CHICAGO (JTA ) — America’s first all-kosher supermarket is set to change hands, marking the end of an era for Hungarian Kosher Foods, a Chicago-area landmark for 45 years. Holocaust survivor Sandor...
View ArticleGermany increases funding for Holocaust survivors by $88 million
(JTA) — Germany has agreed to increase its funding for social welfare services for Holocaust survivors by $88 million. The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany in its announcement...
View ArticleWith time running out, we must engage with Holocaust survivors
(JTA) — There are over 400,000 Jewish Holocaust survivors worldwide, but the survivor population is rapidly diminishing. As we prepare to celebrate the High Holidays and mark the beginning of another...
View ArticleGermany will compensate Kindertransport survivors $2,800 each
BERLIN (JTA) — Germany has agreed to compensate those who fled Nazi Germany as children on the so-called Kindertransport with a one-time payment of approximately $2,800 each. The new agreement,...
View ArticleJewish Federations of North America will distribute $4.6 million in federal...
(JTA) — The Jewish Federations of North America will distribute some $4.6 million in federal funds for Holocaust survivors. The funds will be distributed from the organization’s Center for Advancing...
View Article$30 million more allotted to survivors of French train deportations and families
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The U.S. State Department is ready to allot the second half of the $60 million in compensation for survivors deported to Nazi camps via the French rail system, and their spouses and...
View ArticleHolocaust rescuer gets a surprise 100th birthday party in Poland
(JTA) — The day after he turned 100, Jozef Walaszczyk prepared to attend yet another Holocaust commemoration ceremony in his native Warsaw. Walaszczyk is Poland’s oldest living Righteous Among the...
View ArticleHouse bill would help Holocaust survivors and families recover billions in...
(JTA) — Legislation with bipartisan support that would restore the rights of Holocaust-era insurance beneficiaries to recover billions in unclaimed payments left behind after World War II has been...
View ArticleAlfred Landecker Foundation providing emergency funding for Holocaust...
(JTA) — The Alfred Landecker Foundation has created a fund to provide emergency support for Holocaust survivors affected by COVID-19. The 1 million euro ($1.12 million) fund is meant to support elderly...
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Amid coronavirus pandemic, Holocaust survivors at special risk — and getting...
Earlier this year, when the coronavirus pandemic began to unfold in Asia and appeared destined to hit the United States, the Jewish agencies that deal with America’s most vulnerable Jewish populations...
View ArticleFountain in California dedicated to Holocaust survivors toppled and smashed
(JTA) — A fountain dedicated to Holocaust survivors that also was used for ritual hand-washing inside a California cemetery was toppled and smashed. Police are investigating the incident at Santa Rosa...
View ArticleProminent evangelicals fight in court over $3.3M raised for Holocaust survivors
(JTA) — Two prominent evangelical figures are fighting in court over millions of dollars raised for Holocaust survivors. Mike Evans, a Christian Zionist from Texas, last summer sued Georgia pastor...
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6 prominent Holocaust survivors have died in Europe over the past month
(JTA) — The constant stream of breaking news about American politics and the coronavirus pandemic has hidden a sobering fact: Six prominent Holocaust survivors who had dedicated much of their lives to...
View ArticleCNN’s Wolf Blitzer describes painful associations of seeing ‘Camp Auschwitz’...
(JTA) — Longtime CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer said Thursday that he was happy that his late parents, survivors of the Holocaust, did not live to witness the resurgence of anti-Semitism in the United States...
View ArticleFlorida Holocaust survivor reunited with childhood friend 80 years after...
(JTA) — Holocaust survivors who were best friends in Germany were reunited more than 80 years after they last saw each other. Betty Grebenschikoff from St. Petersburg, Florida, and Ana María Wahrenberg...
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Yosef Kleinman, the youngest survivor to testify at Eichmann trial, dies at 91
(JTA) — Yosef Kleinman, the youngest Holocaust survivor to testify at the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann, has died at 91. Kleinman, who lived in Jerusalem, died Tuesday, according to Akiva Weisz,...
View ArticleRoman Kent, Holocaust survivor who negotiated billions in restitution, dies...
(JTA) — Roman Kent, a Lodz Ghetto survivor who would negotiate with the postwar German government for billions of dollars in compensation for Jewish Holocaust survivors, died Friday at his home in New...
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