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A view of the southern coast of Crete in June 1943. (German Federal Archive/Wikimedia Commons/via JTA)
June 11, 2019, 2:35 am
Greek Jews honor Crete community drowned in entirety en route to Auschwitz
75 years ago, Nazis rounded up the island’s Jewish population and forced them onto the tanker Tanais, subsequently mistaken for a German war ship and sunk by the British
By Bernard Dichek
Hungarian Jews on the Judenrampe (Jewish ramp) after disembarking from the transport trains at Auschwitz-Birkenau, May 1944. To be sent rechts! – to the right – meant the person had been chosen as a laborer; links! – to the left – meant death in the gas chambers. (From the Auschwitz Album)
February 8, 2019, 10:02 am
US distributes further $30m to survivors of France Holocaust train deportations
State Department to administer monies as part of agreement with Paris over national rail system which transported Jews to Nazi death camps
By Ron Kampeas
In 1944, Hungarian Jews line up outside the 'Glass House' building from which Swiss diplomat Carl Lutz helped save the lives of tens of thousands of people. (FOTO:FORTEPAN / Archiv für Zeitgeschichte ETH Zürich / Agnes Hirschi)
January 16, 2019, 4:05 pm
DC court says Holocaust survivors can sue Hungary in the US for huge reparations
Potential multi-billion dollar suit dates back to 2010. Appeals court rules that in pursuit of justice, case can be tried in States. Lawyers say decision could go to Supreme Court
By Yaakov Schwartz
Monument at Westerbork transit camp in the Netherlands, from which Jews were transported to Nazi camps in Germany during WWII. (Patricia Hofmeester/ Shutterstock.com)
November 28, 2018, 4:33 am
Dutch rail says it will compensate for transporting Jews to Nazi death camps
Holland’s National Rail will pay restitution to relatives of those deported during World War II
By AFP
Illustrative: A Holocaust survivor shows her number tattoo. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images via JTA)
July 10, 2018, 6:35 pm
Germany agrees to $88 million more for Holocaust survivors
Claims Conference says additional government funding brings total compensation for next year to $560 million
By AP and TOI staff
Andre Nathan, who was born the same year that the Nazi-allied Vichy government revoked the French citizenship of Algerian Jews, recalls taking this picture of his parents and siblings outside the Oran synagogue on a Jewish holiday in the 1950s. (Courtesy of Nathan via JTA)
February 8, 2018, 3:42 am
Algerian Jews see ‘some justice’ as Germany recognizes their Holocaust suffering
25,000 elderly survivors who suffered under Vichy’s anti-Semitic laws now eligible for grants
By Debra Nussbaum Cohen
Illustrative photo of Algerian Jewish tailors. (Courtesy of JIMENA)
February 5, 2018, 10:32 am
In first, Germany to compensate 25,000 Algerian Jewish Holocaust survivors
Living under the French Vichy regime which collaborated with the Nazis, they were persecuted for being Jewish; now they are eligible for a one-time payment of $3,183
By Stuart Winer
Stephan Templ outside a building in Vienna which he claimed from the Austrian state, October 27, 2014. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)
January 27, 2018, 5:05 am
In jail, Austrian historian writes book slamming Holocaust restitution system
Stephan Templ pens critique while imprisoned for improperly filling out a reparations form for a bureau that employed former Nazis
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Ori Pfeffer as Yoel in 'The Testament.' (Courtesy Gum Films)
January 11, 2018, 1:33 am
Holocaust film ‘The Testament’ breaks poignant new ground in a flooded genre
Israeli director Amichai Greenberg unfolds a number of surprises in a movie which asks when ‘Never Again’ evolves from ideology to liturgy
By Jordan Hoffman
Toys that belonged to Dutch Jewish sisters who were murdered during the Shoah, seen at Amsterdam’s National Holocaust Museum on January 15, 2017 (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)
January 5, 2018, 1:49 am
Dutch Holocaust survivor ordered to pay taxes on forced labor pension
86-year-old Inge Prenzlau required to pay up portion of $156 monthly compensation stipend she receives from Germany
By JTA
A man looks at the World War II Jasenovac memorial camp model on April 26, 2015, during a ceremony to remember the tens of thousands who were killed by Croatia's pro-Nazi regime. (AFP/Stringer)
September 29, 2017, 7:05 pm
US court rejects Croatia WWII victims suit that sought $3.5 billion damages
Nazi-allied Ustasha regime persecuted and killed hundreds of thousands of ethnic Serbs, Jews, Roma and anti-fascist Croatians
By AFP
Pavel Preida, a Roma Holocaust survivor in Moldova, and the document that states he was an inmate in a concentration camp. (Courtesy Roma National Center from Moldova)
September 23, 2017, 11:19 pm
Roma Holocaust survivors look to Jews as model for recognition — and reparation
Despite the murder and confiscation of property during WWII, illiteracy, lack of organization and racism prevent the community from receiving proper compensation
By Julie Masis
Claims Conference representatives meet with German officials during Holocaust restitution negotiations in Israel in 2013. (photo credit: Courtesy Claims Conference)
August 24, 2017, 9:44 am
Claims Conference negotiating with Germany over Holocaust reparations for Algerian Jewry
Although they were not forced into ghettos, Claims Conference says Berlin should compensate Algerian Jews for stripping citizenship and professions under Vichy regime
By Julie Masis
The entrance gate of the former Nazi concentration camp in Dachau near Munich, southern Germany, with the slogan 'Arbeit Macht Frei.' (AP/Christof Stache, File)
August 15, 2017, 8:39 pm
Polish TV parodies Auschwitz sign in story about Germany
In report on calls for German compensation for WWII, Republika TV changes ‘work sets you free’ to ‘reparations set you free’
By JTA
A crowded street leading to Marrakech's mellah. (photo credit: Michal Shmulovich)
April 25, 2017, 9:50 am
The unknown story of Moroccan Holocaust survivors
King Mohammed V stopped the Nazis short of eradicating his Jewish community — but not of imposing anti-Semitic laws. Now Germany pays reparations, even as scholars fill in gaps
By Julie Masis
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