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Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference)

Antisemitic graffiti reading 'Rat' and 'Jew' is seen on an Ireland road, around December 31, 2025. (Screenshot via X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
January 22, 2026, 5:07 am
Survey finds half of Irish adults don’t know 6 million Jews were murdered in Holocaust
8% of poll respondents believe the Holocaust is a myth and didn’t happen, while 17% believe the death toll has been greatly exaggerated
By Grace Gilson
Comedian Rob Reiner speaks at a ceremony honoring fellow actor Billy Crystal, April 12, 2019. at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California. (Robyn Beck/AFP)
December 19, 2025, 5:16 am
In recorded Hanukkah video, Reiner urges Holocaust survivors to be resilient in scary times
Clip of Jewish actor, recorded two months before his murder, aired as part of virtual ceremony featuring candle-lighting at Western Wall
By AP and ToI Staff
Stuart E. Eizenstat speaks during the US Holocaust Memorial Museum's Annual Days of Remembrance ceremony at the US Capitol on April 23, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
October 29, 2025, 4:27 pm
German government pledges record $1 billion in funding for Holocaust survivor home care
The budget reflects the growing needs of an aging survivor population and will now enable all Holocaust survivors on waitlists for home care to receive it
By Grace Gilson
Late president of the Holocaust Survivors Foundation USA (HSF), David Schaecter, looks on during a US Senate Special Committee on Aging hearing on 'Never Again: Addressing the Rise of Antisemitism and Supporting Older Americans,' at Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on April 30, 2025. (Mandel NGAN / AFP via JTA)
September 5, 2025, 10:32 pm
David Schaecter, Holocaust survivor and advocate who founded Miami memorial, dies at 96
Well-known activist lost 105 relatives during the Holocaust and spent his life pushing for restitution, Holocaust education and vigilance against antisemitism
By Grace Gilson
Holocaust survivors look on during the US Holocaust Memorial Museum's Annual Days of Remembrance ceremony at the US Capitol on April 23, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images via JTA)
June 27, 2025, 4:39 pm
Trump’s Social Security Administration cuts hurt US Holocaust survivors, advocates say
Attorneys say DOGE’s slashing of staffers and field offices may make it harder to correct a longtime glitch that can cause survivors in their 80s and 90s to lose their benefits
By Andrew Lapin
People visit the Nazi Concentration Camp Sachsenhausen on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, in Oranienburg, Germany, January 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
April 22, 2025, 6:00 am
Report projects fewer than 100,000 living Holocaust survivors by 2032
Ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Claims Conference predicts that only about 20,000 eyewitnesses to the murder of six million Jews will remain worldwide by 2040
By Zev Stub
A Claims Conference meeting in Jerusalem, February 11, 2025. Seated right to left: Claims Conference President Gideon Taylor, Israeli President Isaac Herzog, and Claims Conference CEO Greg Schneider (Courtesy/Claims Conference)
March 13, 2025, 6:32 am
Still fighting for survivors, Claims Conference sees new battle over Holocaust memory
Conference president Gideon Taylor discusses adapting Holocaust education for post-October 7 generation, continued efforts to secure compensation for survivors
By Zev Stub
Scenes from a new advertisement for Yad Vashem, criticized for being too upbeat. (Screenshot/Yad Vashem)
March 11, 2025, 6:35 pm
‘Cool’ new ad for Yad Vashem raises questions about Holocaust museum’s direction
Some Israelis startled by TV spot with beaming keyboard player touting new sound and light show at institution dedicated to preserving the memory of six million murdered Jews
By Zev Stub
High school students from France walk on the ground of the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau former concentration and extermination camp in Oswiecim, southern Poland, on 5 December 2024. (Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP)
January 23, 2025, 12:12 pm
Most people believe a genocide of Jews could happen today, multi-country survey finds
Claims Conference poll exposes a global trend of fading knowledge about basic facts of the Holocaust, with almost half of French young adults saying they’ve never heard of the term
By Zev Stub
People visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Oswiecim, Poland, February 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
January 13, 2025, 5:00 am
80 Auschwitz survivors film life lessons to mark 80 years since liberation
Created by The Claims Conference, new series of video testimonies from Auschwitz survivors aims to help young people ‘listen to their voices and carry their stories forward’
By Matt Lebovic
The Stolpersteine, or Stumbling Block, placed outside Anna Donat’s Berlin home shows when she was deported to Auschwitz. (Courtesy Stolpersteine)
January 1, 2025, 4:24 pm
German woman who lives in home looted from Jews must give it up, judge rules
Capping a decade of legal wrangling, the ruling has exposed the complex stories German families tell themselves about the Holocaust, and societal ambivalence towards the victims
By Toby Axelrod
A small Israeli flag on the rail tracks at the site of the former Auschwitz-Birkenau camp during commemorations to honor the victims of the Holocaust, near the historic gate of Birkenau (Auschwitz II) near the village of Brzezinka near Oswiecim, Poland on April 28, 2022. (Wojtek Radwanski / AFP)
May 4, 2024, 8:04 am
How Jewish world marking Yom Hashoah, months after deadliest day for Jews since Holocaust
March of the Living to be led by 55 survivors, including 7 also affected by October 7; while some double-survivors connect the two experiences, others caution against
By jacob gurvis
Holocaust survivor Herbert Rubinstein talks during an interview with The Associated Press at his home in Dusseldorf, Germany, April 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
May 2, 2024, 9:32 am
Survivors rebut Holocaust denial posts on social media to fight antisemitism
Claims Conference launches #cancelhate campaign ahead of Yom Hashoah to shine a light on historic persecution of Jews amid anti-Israel protests over Gaza war
By Agencies
People listen to speeches during a demonstration against antisemitism and to show solidarity with Israel in Berlin, Germany, on October 22, 2023. (Markus Schreiber/AP)
April 4, 2024, 11:09 am
Holocaust agency opens survivor speakers bureau to fight spiking global antisemitism
New York-based Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany says new group aimed at connecting survivors in-person or virtually with students around the world
By AP and ToI Staff
Works of art by Austrian expressionist artist Egon Schiele on display at the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, September 20, 2023, during a ceremony returning the pieces to the heirs of Fritz Grünbaum. (AP/Bobby Caina Calvan)
March 9, 2024, 10:11 am
21 more countries agree to updated guidelines on restituting Nazi-looted art
WJRO and Claims Conference say 24 nations made minimal to no progress on issue, adding that it’s more difficult when it comes to pieces in private hands rather than public collections
By Jackie Hajdenberg
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