Latest Claims News
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Ghetto Fund
Following negotiations with the Claims Conference, the German government has announced the creation of a Fund to pay compensation to Holocaust survivors who worked voluntarily in ghettos during the Second World War. This fund is not being administered by or through the Claims Conference, but directly by the German Government. ...read more
Article II Fund improvements
The Claims Conference has announced major improvements in the eligibility criteria for the Article II Fund. The Fund provides the equivalent of a compensation pension to Holocaust survivors who were interned in ghettos or concentration camps. ...read more
Claims Conference secures additional payments for Holocaust survivors
Nearly $100 Million in Additional Payments to be Made Over 10 Years
In its annual negotiations today with the German government, the Claims Conference obtained eligibility for monthly pension payments for an estimated additional 1,500 Holocaust survivors and secured increases in the amounts of payments to survivors in Eastern Europe. Today’s negotiations will result in nearly $100 million in additional compensation payments over the next decade. ...read more
Bank charges
At the instigation of the AJR, the British Bankers Association has produced a set of guidelines to ensure that no commission charges should be deducted from compensation payments made to Holocaust survivors or their heirs living in Great Britain. If charges are taken, the BBA guidelines (click here) explain how to apply for a refund. ...link
Pension life certificates
The AJR is now able to notarise life certificates for all German and Austrian social security and compensation pensions. ...link
French railway litigation
In a setback to the families of Holocaust victims hoping to claim compensation from the French government and railways (SNCF) a judge, at the end of March, overturned a ruling that French railways must compensate the family of a Jewish man transported to an internment camp in Nazi-occupied France. ...read more
Austrian restitution website
Austria has created an online database containing information about objects of art and other cultural items that were likely to have been expropriated between 1938 and 1945, when Austria became a part of Nazi Germany. ...read more
Generali insurance
Although the deadline to submit applications for an insurance policy sold by the Italian insurer, Assicurazioni Generali, expired on 31 March 2007, it still might be possible to submit a claim until June 2008 provided the claims are based on documents obtained from the ITS archive, see above story. ...read more
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