Not long now until the application closes for design sprint focused on making visible and connecting sites of non-commemoration. Do you have prototyping, UX, digital storytelling or design skills? Do you have expertise in Holocaust history, memory or heritage in the Balkans? www.digitalmemorylab...

Holocaust survivor Ezra Ben Gershom (1922-2006) was born in Wurzburg as the fifth child of a German Jewish family. He survived the Holocaust by living under a false identity, including eluding the Gestapo by being on the move and sporting a Hitler Youth uniform. #RememberThis

Holocaust survivor Barbara Ledermann Rodbell remained in hiding until Amsterdam was liberated by Canadian troops. Her father, Franz, mother, Ilse and sister, Susanne, were murdered in Auschwitz. Barbara immigrated to the US in Nov 1947. She and her husband, Martin Rodbell, raised four children.

"Between the Wires" tells the history of the Janowska camp in Lviv, Ukraine. Located in a city with the third-largest ghetto in Nazi-occupied Europe, Janowska remains one of the least-known sites of the Holocaust, despite being one of the deadliest. @waitmanwbeorn.com is a former #SaulKagan Fellow 👏

The Claims Conference highlighted the future of Holocaust education at the House of Austrian History with the presentation of a virtual reality study. The study demonstrated how technology can preserve the memory of the Shoah for future generations and showed the strong learning impact of VR.

“Being able to ensure direct payments to survivors in addition to the expansions to the social welfare services we are able to fund is essential in making sure every Holocaust survivor is taken care of for as long as it is required,” - Greg Schneider, Claims Conference EVP.

There are an estimated 196,600 Jewish Holocaust survivors globally, living across 90 countries. This is down from the 220,000 survivors estimated to be alive when the Claims Conference released this data in Jan 2025. The data forces us to accept that Holocaust survivors will not be with us forever.

#PartnersInCare The Claims Conference provides home care services for Holocaust survivors around the world. Our network of partner organizations helps ensure that Holocaust survivors are treated with sensitivity and compassion and know they are not alone.

Important topic! Interesting discussion here w/Producer & Director Yoav Potash and editors Lauren Schwartzman and Aaron Butler ACE, moderated by editor Brian Kates www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSzu...

Holocaust survivors are at a period of life where their need for care and services is growing. #InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay #PartnersInCare

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Claims Conference President Gideon Taylor, Chief Rabbi of Poland Rabbi Michael Schudrich and @yoavpotash.bsky.social will hold a conversation following a screening of Potash's film "Among Neighbors." www.symphonyspace.org/events/thalia-docs-among-neighbors

Join us next Tuesday for a screening of the powerful film Among Neighbors in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The screening will be followed by filmmaker Yoav Potash in conversation with Gideon Taylor, President of @claims-conference.bsky.social. bit.ly/4r2EM4p

In observance of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan 27, Claims Conference Pres Gideon Taylor and filmmaker Yoav Potash will participate in a conversation following a screening of the film "Among Neighbors" at Symphony Space in NYC. www.symphonyspace.org/events/thalia-docs-among-neighbors

"An old person sighed bitterly A young fist bent with fury For a third time the terrible times made us tremble And that froze with fright And once again the white snow turned red And the brown heart’s face blazed Victorious they faced death Crying out triumphant..."

Mazal tov to Chiara Renzo, former Claims Conference #SaulKagan Fellow in Advanced Shoah Studies! Her Routledge book, “Jewish Displaced Persons in Italy 1943–1951 Politics, Rehabilitation, Identity,” received honorable mention for the 2025 Yad Vashem International Book Prize for #Holocaust Research.

Our exhibition gallery is back open this week, with the chance to see our latest groundbreaking curation Eldercide: Older Jews and the Holocaust draws on our archive collection to explore the stories of those for whom Nazi persecution came at the end of their lives Plan your visit:

The Claims Conference remembers Holocaust survivor Eva Schloss Geiringer. She participated in several Claims Conference events focused on Holocaust education and remembrance, including filming videos for our #NoDenyingIt and #ItStartedWithWords social media campaigns.

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