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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 474

Julius Berman

A Holocaust survivor shows his prisoner number tattooed on his arm. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 11, 2015, 6:36 am
‘Fraud of Nazi-victims fund likely higher than reported $57m’
Investigator fired by Claims Conference says reparations group’s head obstructed probe; chairman denies allegation
By Uriel Heilman
Claims Conference representatives meet with German officials during Holocaust restitution negotiations in Israel in 2013. (photo credit: Courtesy Claims Conference)
June 20, 2014, 5:44 am
Claims Conference weighs shutting down vs. Holocaust education
Panel appointed after $57-million fraud scandal recommends that the organization shift its long-term focus to remembrance
By Uriel Heilman
Negotiators from the Claims Conference, left, meet with German government officials regarding compensation for Nazi victims who live in the former Soviet Union, 2012 (photo courtesy: The Claims Conference)
July 11, 2013, 12:38 am
Amid scandal, Claims Conference agrees to outside input, but re-elects its chairman
Internal report, publicized earlier this week, indicates management incompetence helped facilitate a $57-million fraud
German officials laying a wreath at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem as Claims Conference officials look on, May 2013. (photo credit: JTA)
July 10, 2013, 4:04 pm
Multi-million dollar scandal at Claims Conference prompts bitter in-fighting among top officials
Devastating findings of contested internal report indicate management incompetence helped facilitate $57 million fraud
By Uriel Heilman
Negotiators from the Claims Conference, left, meet with German government officials regarding compensation for Nazi victims who live in the former Soviet Union, 2012 (photo courtesy: The Claims Conference)
July 8, 2013, 11:45 pm
Rift opens over report showing mishandling of Shoah restitution
Two members of committee tasked with reviewing financial mishandling resign and dismiss findings
An illustrative photo of an Auschwitz survivor displaying his concentration camp-identification, permanently inked onto his forearm (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)
May 28, 2013, 8:52 pm
Germany to pay $1b. for Holocaust survivors’ care
Agreement reached with Claims Conference will see extra funding provided from 2014 through 2017
By Uriel Heilman
Duhenah Reveaka of Bobruisk, Belarus is among thousands of survivors who rely on Claims Conference funding for aid. (photo credit: Sarah Levin/JDC/JTA)
May 24, 2013, 4:16 pm
Claims Conference head ‘never considered’ public apology over huge fraud
$57million con took 12 years to root out. But cost was borne entirely by Germany, and Holocaust survivors were not adversely affected, chairman Julius Berman says
By Uriel Heilman
Claims Conference chief Greg Schneider visiting a Nazi victim at her home in Moldova. (Photo credit: Courtesy of Claims Conference/JTA)
May 22, 2013, 12:30 pm
Top Claims Conference officials carried out own botched probe of 2001 fraud
Was the organization negligent in its internal investigations, or, after stealing $57m., is Semen Domnitser simply a shrewd criminal mastermind?
By Uriel Heilman
May 22, 2013, 4:49 am
Making sense of the Claims Conference chaos
Why did it take so long for a $57 million fraud to be exposed?
By Uriel Heilman
Stuart E. Eizenstat, the chief negotiator of the Jewish Claims Conference, walks through the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin in 2011. (Markus Schreiber/AP)
November 16, 2012, 10:01 am
Germany increases reparations for Holocaust survivors
In a ceremony at Berlin’s Jewish Museum, finance minister announces help for a rapidly aging, often poverty-stricken population
By David Rising
Nikolaos G. Michaloliakos (photo credit: YouTube screenshot via JTA)
November 2, 2012, 5:51 am
Greek Jews seek outside help in battle against surging neo-Nazi party
Community of 5,000 works to alert country’s leadership to threats posed by racist, anti-Semitic politicians of Golden Dawn
By Gavin Rabinowitz
Claims Conference chief Greg Schneider visiting a Nazi victim at her home in Moldova. (Photo credit: Courtesy of Claims Conference/JTA)
July 13, 2012, 2:29 am
Can Greg Schneider steer the Claims Conference past unspeakable fraud?
A very in-depth look at how Claims Conference employees managed to steal more than $57 million from the German government in the name of Holocaust survivors, and how the organization has weathered the storm
By Uriel Heilman
Negotiators from the Claims Conference, left, meet with German government officials regarding compensation for Nazi victims who live in the former Soviet Union, 2012 (photo courtesy: The Claims Conference)
July 11, 2012, 3:31 am
After six decades, 80,000 former USSR Nazi victims to get compensation
A community long denied justice will get $300 million. Deal comes as Israel, Germany commemorate the 60-year anniversary of the first reparations agreement
By Ari Ben Goldberg
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