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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 642

Holocaust reparations

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
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
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and then-Bild newspaper chief editor, Kai Diekmann, right, look at original blueprints of the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz, Poland, in Berlin, August 27, 2009. (AP Photo/Rainer Jensen, Pool)
November 30, 2024, 8:27 am
Bild’s ex-editor on that leaked document: It’s a journalist’s job to publish secret info
If someone gives you a document, they’re always pursuing an agenda, says Kai Diekmann; he also discusses the paper’s unique stance on Israel and his most dramatic meeting with Netanyahu
By Katharina Kunert
Then-French president Francois Hollande walks back from a train car commemorating the Drancy concentration camp, during the inauguration of a new Holocaust memorial in Drancy, a Paris suburb, France, September 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Philippe Wojazer, Pool)
May 1, 2024, 4:10 pm
Podcast about a French railway’s role in the Holocaust tracks with US Jews post-Oct. 7
Newly-released ‘Covering Their Tracks’ is about a battle for justice. But for Jewish Americans suffering unprecedented antisemitism, it’s a much-needed tale of resilience and pride
By Cathryn J. Prince
Illustrative: A woman enters a building where stumbling stones, engraved with names of Jews killed by the Nazis, are seen in front of the entrance, in Rome's Ghetto Jewish neighborhood, January 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
August 16, 2023, 5:05 am
Italian Jewish leader says new $67 million Holocaust reparations fund ‘a mockery’
To solve a diplomatic dispute with Germany over civil suits for Nazi crimes, Italy decides to pony up – but Jewish community members say the government is trying not to pay out
By Giovanni Vigna
Stuart Eizenstat, a negotiator for the Claims Conference, negotiates with German government officials in Berlin, Germany on May 9, 2023. (Courtesy of the Claims Conference)
June 15, 2023, 5:18 am
Germany to hike homecare funding for Holocaust survivors by $105 million next year
Announcement comes following latest round of negotiations between Claims Conference and Berlin, which also agrees to keep hardship fund going until 2027
By Canaan Lidor
Waiting at the gates of Chiune Sugihara's consul, Jewish refugees in Kovno, Lithuania, circa 1940. (Courtesy Nobuki Sugihara)
November 15, 2022, 8:05 pm
Lithuania mulls expanding compensation for Jewish property seized in WWII
PM Ingrida Simonyte files draft legislation to provide 37 million euros in reparations; 95% of country’s Jewish population was killed by Nazis and local collaborators
By AFP
German soldiers search rubble in Westerplatte for Polish survivors in Danzig, Poland on September 2, 1939. (AP Photo)
October 4, 2022, 3:49 pm
German minister tells Poland no chance for WWII reparations as Warsaw seeks $1.3t
Poland’s demand includes cases of Jews killed by Poles during the Holocaust; Germany says matter is closed
By AP and ToI Staff
File - Former Polish President Alekdander Kwasniewski touches the statue after praying for the dead at a ceremony marking 70 years since Poland's villagers murdered hundreds of their Jewish neighbors during World War II in Jedwabne, Poland, July 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
September 12, 2022, 1:51 pm
Daily Briefing Sept. 12: Poland seeks WWII reparations – for Jews killed by Poles
Diaspora reporter Judah Ari Gross delves into a shocking story out of Poland; health reporter Nathan Jeffay brings us the latest in COVID research and a cancer detection blood test
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: People with Israeli flags and banners attend a rally against antisemitism near the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Sunday, September 14, 2014. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
September 2, 2022, 7:46 pm
Poll: 1 in 3 Germans say Israel treating Palestinians like Nazis did Jews
Another 25% won’t rule out the claim; survey further finds a third of Germans have poor view of Israel, don’t feel their country has a special responsibility toward Jews
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A Holocaust survivor lights a torch during a ceremony held at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem on Israel's annual Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 7, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
August 2, 2022, 3:00 am
Romania to pay pensions of citizens who moved to Israel after surviving Holocaust
Deal between Jerusalem and Bucharest, which was caught up in red tape for past six years, expected to provide some 7,000 survivors with hundreds of additional shekels a month
By ToI Staff
A man stands inside the Riga Ghetto Museum in Riga, Latvia, January 11, 2014. (Fishman/Ullstein via Getty Images via JTA)
October 10, 2021, 6:43 pm
Latvia grants $46m in Holocaust restitution, but says state wasn’t at fault
Parliament brands payment ‘goodwill compensation’ rather than reparations, with the bill placing the blame for WWII theft of Jewish property on Nazis and Communists
By Cnaan Liphshiz
This file photo, taken in the winter months of 1942, shows citizens of Leningrad as they dig up water from a broken main, during the 900-day siege of the Russian city by German invaders (AP Photo, File)
October 6, 2021, 8:20 am
Holocaust survivors from Leningrad among 6,500 now eligible for German pensions
Jews who lived in Nazi-occupied Romania, southern France also to get monthly stipends for 1st time; Claims Conference: ‘For many survivors, the funds will relieve crushing poverty’
By ToI Staff and AP
Messauda Fadlun, seen in old photos, was living in Libya in 1938 when it was an Italian colony and under the racist laws targeting the Jewish community. (Courtesy of Ariel Finzi/ via JTA)
February 5, 2021, 12:34 pm
After giving Holocaust survivor pension, Italy wants her husband to pay it back
Italian government tells the 98-year-old husband of now-deceased Messauda Fadlun to return 76,000 euros paid to her, because she had mixed Italian-Libyan citizenship during WWII
By Simone Somekh
German troops march in Bucharest, Romania on December 27, 1940. (AP Photo)
July 21, 2019, 12:16 am
Germany to compensate 8,000 Romanian Holocaust survivors living in Israel
Recipients set to receive monthly stipend of $225, retroactive payment of up to $54,300
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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