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Holocaust reparations

Holocaust survivor Penina Zeitchik (center) made aliyah at age 86 on February 18, 2026, welcomed by her son, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. (Courtesy)
April 14, 2026, 12:56 am
Over 80 years after fleeing the Nazis, a survivor moves to Israel, finally home
On her first Holocaust Remembrance Day since realizing her dream of immigrating, Penina Zeitchik aims to gather with grandchildren also living in Israel to share what her family experienced in the war
By Rossella Tercatin
Workers operates next to a sign of Swiss banking giant UBS on the top of a building in Zurich, on March 4, 2026. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
April 7, 2026, 10:38 pm
US judge rejects bid by Swiss Bank UBS to limit its liability for Nazi-linked crimes
Banking giant had sought to expand $1.25 billion settlement from 1999 to encompass newly discovered ties between Nazi officials and UBS-owned Credit Suisse
By Jonathan Stempel
This photograph shows a sign of Swiss giant banking UBS at a branch in Zurich on March 4, 2026. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
March 11, 2026, 8:34 am
UBS asks US judge to shield it from further investigation into Nazi bank accounts
Former Credit Suisse reached $1.25b settlement in 1999 over WWII-era crimes, is now resistant to handing over 150 documents it says are protected by attorney-client privilege
By Jonathan Stempel
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
Argentine Patricia Kadgien (C), daughter of SS financial guru Friedrich Kadgien, one of several high-ranking Nazis to escape to Argentina after the war, attends a hearing after being arrested in Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires province on September 4, 2025. (AFP)
October 12, 2025, 4:43 pm
How a Dutch retiree helped uncover Nazi-stolen art in Argentina
Working from his father’s wartime diaries, Paul Post tracked down painting looted during the Holocaust to Argentina, in possession of daughter of high-ranking Nazi official
By Leila Miller
Helen Emily Davy, left, and Katharina Mayrhofer pose with the table taken from the Wertheimer family during the Holocaust. (Courtesy)
August 26, 2025, 8:08 am
In 1938, an Austrian Nazi family looted a Jewish home. Their heirs connect over a table
After a woman unearthed a dark family history while cleaning her attic, she took steps to make things right – highlighting systemic problems with Austria’s Holocaust restitution policies
By Robert Philpot
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
Former Polish President Alekdander Kwasniewski touches a memorial for slain Jews at a ceremony marking 70 years since Polish 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
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