This Chanukah we celebrate the resilience of Holocaust survivors. Join the Claims Conference HERE - Claimscon.org/SurvivorsNight2025 - to celebrate International Holocaust Survivors Night (IHSN), Dec 18 at 2 pm ET/7 pm GMT/ 9 pm Israel time. The free event can be viewed from anywhere in the world.

We remember Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer Reiner. The Claims Conference is grateful for the messages Rob sent to celebrate and honor Holocaust survivors and the couples’ passionate and steadfast championing of the underserved. May their memory be a blessing.

In @thejerusalempost.bsky.social Harry Legg, a Claims Conference #SaulKagan Fellow and University of Edinburgh PhD candidate, reflects on the use of Nazi racial terms concerning Jews during the Holocaust. www.jpost.com/history/arti...

Lessons of the past should have protected Holocaust survivor Alex Kleytman – a husband, a father and a grandfather. The Claims Conference’s hearts and prayers go out to the victims of the attack at a Chanukah gathering at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia.

This Chanukah we celebrate the resilience of Holocaust survivors. Register here Claimscon.org/SurvivorsNight2025 to join the Claims Conference and Barbra Streisand, Billy Crystal, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jason Alexander, and more for International Holocaust Survivors Night on Dec 18 at 2 pm ET #IHSN2025

A 2020 survey by the Claims Conference found that 63% of American millennials and Gen Z don’t know six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust. One in ten believes Jews caused the Holocaust.

Michael Newman, chief executive of the Association of Jewish Refugees, said: "Despite being only nine years old, [Holocaust survivor] Vera [Schaufeld 's] strength and courage shone through, as she bravely waved farewell to her parents, never to see them again." #RememberThis

Dr. Rebecca Carter Chand @ushmm.bsky.social was in the first cohort of the #SaulKagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies. Her new @uwiscpress.bsky.social book about the Salvation Army during Nazism has received the George L. Mosse First Book Prize. Mazel tov! uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/C/Chri...

The Mauthausen Memorial Path launch: It is in the memory of those who were killed that the Claims Conference educates about the Holocaust. Education about concentration camps is meant to ensure the lessons of those places do not fade. Learn more about the tour here: mauthausenpath.at

The Claims Conference, through negotiations with the German government, provided over $167 million in grants in 2025 to our partner agencies in New York to fund home care assistance, allowing survivors residing in the state to live safely and comfortably in their homes as they age. #PartnersInCare

Très heureuse de pouvoir continuer mes recherches sur les spoliations de la propriété privée dont ont été victimes les Juifs pendant la période du nazisme en tant que Saul Kagan Fellow for Advanced Shoah Studies de la @claims-conference.bsky.social

Honored to be part of this year's Claims Conference's Saul Kagan Fellowship cohort!

CALL | Excellent opportunity for Eastern European based Universities! Claims Conference @claims-conference.bsky.social University Partnership Program in Holocaust Studies www.ehri-project.eu/call-for-eas...

We welcome @comeniusuni.bsky.social and Uzhhorod National University to the Claims Conference's University Partnership in #Holocaust Studies! Learn about the vision for #HolocaustEducation at the Ukrainian institution: www.uzhnu.edu.ua/en/news/The-...

Meet the 18th cohort of the Claims Conference's #SaulKagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies: PhD candidates Lisa Storer, @alexorengog.bsky.social, Eliyau Klein, @harrylegg.bsky.social, Jovana Cveticanin, Alexandra Kramen, and postdocs Margaux Dumas & Borbala Klacsmann. fellowships.claimscon.org

Over Sukkot, in partnership with the Claims Conference, Westchester Jewish Community Services hosted a group of 60 Holocaust survivors for a luncheon. The survivors reminded everyone in attendance of the true meaning of the Zman Simchateinu- the Holiday of Our Joy. https://bit.ly/47h6YIH

On 8 October 1939 the first ghetto was opened at Piotrków. This was soon followed by the ghetto in Radomsko, and the first major ghetto in Łódź in February 1940 Over the following two years, hundreds of ghettos would be established across Poland Learn more #TheHolocaustExplained

Mazel tov to Robert French, the new CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas!

The Stupnickas and the Jews they had rescued remained close and on September 19, 1984, Yad Vashem recognized Janina and her daughter Anna as Righteous Among the Nations. A digital version of STRONGER THAN FEAR is available at claimscon.org/stronger-than-fear.

We are grateful for the 25 years Rabbi Menachem Hacohen z”l devoted to the Claims Conference and our mission to provide for Holocaust survivors and to ensure that the lessons of the Holocaust are not forgotten. May his memory be a blessing and legacy inspire us to carry on his vision of unity.

"Hearing from a survivor made history feel personal." At a Cape Town Holocaust and Genocide Center program – in partnership with Yahad–In Unum and supported by a Claims Conference grant – 40 teachers from 5 African nations explored teaching the Holocaust in today’s world. https://bit.ly/4lSA7z4

"..but you weren't liberated from what happened to you. "The Shoah lives inside you, it doesn't disappear."

How does age affect people’s experiences in times of humanitarian crisis? This forthcoming book coedited by @ceschmidt.bsky.social, Betsy Anthony, and me explores the lives of #OlderJews before, during, and after the #Holocaust. wsupress.wayne.edu/9780814352052/

Pinchas Gutter and his family witnessed the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, hidden in a bunker until being discovered in May 1943 and deported to Majdanek, where his mother, Chaya, his father, Menachem, and his twin sister, Sabina, were murdered. Pinchas was liberated from Theresienstadt on May 8, 1945.

A Claims Conference supported film, Oscar-winning filmmaker László Nemes’s “Orphan” follows a boy's discovery of his mother’s survival during WW2 when a man claiming to be his missing father returns. The film will compete for the Golden Lion at this year's Venice International Film Festival.

#DOCNYCfest WORLD PREMIERE: PLUNDER, directed by Hugo Macgregor. “It’s not every day that you meet an old Nazi.” So begins Jonathan Petropoulos recalling the day when he met Bruno Lohse, Hermann Göring’s art agent, during WW2 @docnycfest.bsky.social #HolocaustEducation www.docnyc.net/film/plunder...

“Freezing weather and epidemics – but these horrors were only details. The most significant thing was the gas chamber and the crematorium. This was the logical end for any Jew entering Birkenau” – Algerian-born Holocaust survivor Gabriel Bénichou, Dec 15, 1926 – Jul 23, 2025.

“In every encounter with a survivor, I see a spark of the ability to rebuild life. Our partnership with the Claims Conference allows us to turn compassion into daily action" - Natali Zohar, Dir of the Department of Social Services in Netivot. #PartnersInCare

“Every day we thought we might not survive" - Holocaust survivor Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, born July 17, 1925. #ISurvivedAuschwitz: Anita was a cello player, and it helped save her life at Auschwitz. “They want music, they need the musicians; if they kill us, they won’t have it.” #RememberThis

Director Abby Ginzberg’s LABORS OF LOVE explores the enduring legacy of Henrietta Szold, one of the most influential American Jewish women who ever lived. San Francisco Jewish Film Festival: July 26 1130 AM - JCC San Francisco July 29 100 PM - Piedmont Theatre Tickets: jfi.org/sfjff-2025

From this afternoon's session on Kristallnacht VR with Rachel Ferrucci Barbara Ghammashi and Abigail Prade from @claims-conference.bsky.social Conference, chaired by Vincent Du. #ldml_25

This web-based #VR experience exploring the events of #Kristallnacht through Dr. Charlotte Knobloch's testimony, which brought together the @claims-conference.bsky.social, @uscshoahfoundation.bsky.social, @unesco.org, Meta, and #XR company makemepulse, will be presented at our Expo. #ldml_25

At the annual Saul Kagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies Workshop, alumnus Dr. Dallas Michelbacher (2014-2016), an Applied Researcher at the @ushmm.bsky.social, an expert on the Holocaust in Romania and the author of the book "Jewish Forced Labor in Romania, 1940-1944," gave the keynote.

The annual workshop of the Claims Conference #SaulKagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies brought early-career scholars together to discuss their projects. It also allowed them to connect with former Fellows, including those currently working at the @ushmm.bsky.social. #HolocaustEducation

Holocaust survivor Helena Weinstock Weinrauch was born to Gisela and Maximilian Weinrauch in Dusseldorf, Germany, in 1924. She had a sister, Erna, who was six years older. The family moved to Drohobycz, Poland (today’s Ukraine), for her father’s work. In 1939, after a brief German occupation,

"Water! A drop of water! We are people too!" When he was 14 years old, Romanian Holocaust survivor Leonard Zăicescu and his father were arrested and taken to the Iași Police Station, where he witnessed executions and violence. From there, Leonard was put on the Iași–Podu Iloaiei train, one of the

🏛️ #Wanderausstellung NICHT ERREICHBAR – NICHT ABSCHLIEẞBAR 70 Jahre Luxemburger Abkommen zwischen Deutschland, Israel und der @claims-conference.bsky.social‬ Eine Ausstellung über #Verantwortung, #Erinnerung und #Wiedergutmachung 📅 bis 28.06.25 📍 Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, IG Farben-Haus

At a recent Claims Conference Survivor Speakers Bureau event, survivor Lawrence McColm shared how he was hidden in a Belgian orphanage as a child during the Holocaust. Now 85, he continues to speak out, preserving memory and fighting hate. #HolocaustEducation #ClaimsConference #VanishingWitnesses

Thanks so much to the @claims-conference.bsky.social for inviting me to provide feedback to some amazing early career scholar/fellows this week. It was great to see that our field is in such good hands!

In Jan 2025, Claims Conference released the first-ever, eight-country Index on Holocaust Knowledge and Awareness, exposing a global trend in fading knowledge of basic facts about the Holocaust. "There is still much more work to be done” – Claims Conference Pres Gideon Taylor. youtu.be/A-BCQ8vRZh8

Holocaust survivors James Wagman and George Falk shared their histories via the Claims Conference’s Survivor Speakers Bureau. James was smuggled from the Lviv ghetto. George spent the war in hiding. They share to ensure that the lessons of unchecked hatred are never forgotten. #HolocaustEducation

Holocaust survivor Esther Senot attended Le Juif et la France (Jews and France), a 1941 exhibition billed as a ‘public service announcement’ to 'help' French citizens recognize the Jews amongst them. She was deported to Auschwitz in 1943. #RememberThis #ItStartedWithWords youtu.be/XkVeL8xuJ6o

“The strength of this gathering is a testament to our collective memory. When community members come together to remember, we help to ensure the promise of ‘Never Again.'” -Maxine Kaufman, executive director of the Jewish Federation of Florida’s Gulf Coast.

"[EACH OF US] is an exploration of resilience and solidarity in the face of unimaginable adversity is both timely and timeless" -Thorsten Ritter, executive vice president of Beta Cinema. #HolocaustEducation The Claims Conference proudly provided a film grant to EACH OF US variety.com/2025/film/gl...

Do you want to know more about the history of the #Holocaust in Hungary? The new Hungarian Holocaust Research Network, co-founded by Claims Conference #SaulKagan Fellows (Istvan Pal Adam, Peter Buchmuller, and Borbala Klacsmann), includes helpful resources. hhrn.webnode.hu/en/ #HolocaustEducation

“You are my witness… please be kind to each other.” In April, Rosette Goldstein, born in Paris to parents from Łódź, Poland, shared her Holocaust story with students in Alaska. Her words stay with us. To host a survivor at your institution: claimscon.org/speakers youtube.com/shorts/T3h5R...

After his mother, father and twin sister were murdered in Majdanek, the two horses Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter found after being liberated from Theresienstadt 80 years ago became his family. #RememberThis youtu.be/OoKGANrIS-Q