Holocaust Reparations Contacts and Links

Claims Conference grants are specifically for organizations that assist Jewish Nazi victims and projects that promote research, education & documentation of the Shoah.

Generally, the Claims Conference does not provide direct funding to individuals to enable participation on trips to sites of Nazi atrocities.

LOCAL ASSISTANCE FOR HOLOCAUST VICTIMS

If a local agency is not located in your area, please contact us for a referral.

WORLD JEWISH RESTITUTION ORGANISATION (WJRO)
WJRO represents world Jewry in pursuing claims for the recovery of Jewish properties in Europe (outside of Germany and Austria). WJRO was established by leading world Jewish organizations to address the restitution of Jewish property and to remind the world that the time has come to redress the enormous material wrongs caused to European Jewry during the Holocaust.

THE HOLOCAUST AND THE UNITED NATIONS OUTREACH PROGRAMME

Rejecting any denial of the Holocaust as a historical event, either in full or in part, the General Assembly adopted a resolution (A/RES/60/7) by consensus condemning "without reserve" all manifestations of religious intolerance, incitement, harassment or violence against persons or communities based on ethnic origin or religious belief, whenever they occur.

The resolution declared that the United Nations would designate 27 January -- the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp -- as an annual International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust, and urged Member States to develop educational programmes to instill the memory of the tragedy in future generations to prevent genocide from occurring again. It requested the United Nations Secretary-General to establish an outreach programme on the "Holocaust and the United Nations", as well as institute measures to mobilize civil society for Holocaust remembrance and education, in order to help prevent future acts of genocide.

The Holocaust was a turning point in history, which prompted the world to say "never again". The significance of resolution A/RES/60/7 is that it calls for a remembrance of past crimes with an eye towards preventing them in the future.

COMMISSION FOR LOOTED ART IN EUROPE

The Information Database contains information and documentation from forty nine countries, including laws and policies, reports and publications, archival records and resources, current cases and relevant websites.

The Object Database contains details of over 25,000 objects of all kinds – paintings, drawings, antiquities, Judaica, etc – looted, missing and/or identified from over fifteen countries.

All images on the site are published under fair use conditions for the purpose of criticism and research.

For a list of Essential Website Links, showing all key research sites and resources. For Bibliographies on all aspects of looted art, the art trade, archives and restitution.
For details of the most recent international resources and also see below (on their website) for Online Resources and Case News.

THE CENTER ORGANIZATIONS OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS IN ISRAEL

The Center Organizations of Holocaust Survivors in Israel serves as an umbrella organization for 55 organizations representing communities that suffered from Nazi persecution during World War II: from Western and Eastern Europe to North Africa. The organization, which was founded more then 25 years ago, has been recognized by the Government of Israel as the representative organization of the entire survivor population in Israel.

MINISTRY OF JUSTICE, HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS, ISRAEL

Holocaust survivors arrived in Israel before the establishment of the State and played an important part in the revival of the State. The Legal Aid Department together with the Holocaust Survivors' Rights Authority at the Ministry of Finance has recently permitted the realization of the right to provide legal aid to Holocaust survivors without payment of a fee and without a means test (without examining income and property) in matters such as receiving allowances, an annual grant, etc.

The Legal Aid Department provides legal aid to Holocaust survivors without payment of a fee and without a means test (without examining income and property) in the following matters:

1. In pursuing their rights as Holocaust survivors in advice and representation.

2. The Department provides aid in defense and claims in the Execution Office and the Courts in matters of lawyers' fees vis-à-vis the bodies that handled their applications to receive rights as survivors.

HELPING HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS (US)

The Jewish Federations make caring for Holocaust survivors a key priority, helping them to live more comfortably in their homes.

TRACING HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS AND VICTIMS

ThIs is a brief guide to help you research and search Holocaust survivors/victims and to acquaint you with the resources available in the Holocaust Memorial Center Library Archive. For specific questions, please check with the reference librarian on duty or call 248-553-2834 to make an appointment for individual guidance.
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE

HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS ASSISTANCE

AJFCS’s Holocaust Survivor’s Assistance Program is dedicated to easing the lives of survivors of the Shoah. Our internationally recognized professional staff has expertise in helping survivors to identify and address the unique social welfare, health care, and emotional needs of Jewish victims of the Nazi atrocities. You can trust our professionals to provide services with the utmost sensitivity and to honor the dignity of our survivors.
RESTITUTION, DUTCH GOVERNMENT

Restitution

During the Second World War, the property of many Dutch Jews and other Jewish people in the Netherlands was confiscated. In 1990s there was a resurgence of worldwide interest in the issue of Nazi looting and the restitution of financial and other assets.

The Dutch government eventually made €181.5 million available to compensate the victims and their families.

Investigation and restitution of legal rights

The international debate about the return of Jewish financial assets began in 1996. Various government investigations showed that post-war Dutch society had been insufficiently sensitive to the damage inflicted on the Jewish community during the war. Restitution had been inadequate. Acting on the advice of the investigating committees, the Dutch government decided that the victims should have the right to full restitution of all misappropriated assets.

Restitution of financial assets

In 1999-2000, extensive discussions between the Jewish community and the Dutch government, insurance companies, banks and stock market authorities culminated in a series of agreements on the restitution of financial assets. Under a settlement agreed with the Jewish community, the Dutch state made a sum of €181.5 million available in recognition of failures in the past treatment of the victims of WWII persecution, the shortcomings in post-war restitution, and the impact of this on people’s subsequent lives. The money was to be managed and allocated by the Jewish community under government supervision.

THE ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH REFUGEES, GREAT BRITAIN

The Association of Jewish Refugees is the national charity supporting Holocaust refugees and survivors living in Great Britain. Primarily providing social, welfare and care services, the AJR also has a nationwide network of regional groups offering members a unique opportunity to socialise in their local area. Members receive support from volunteers and can obtain advice and assistance on welfare rights as well as on Holocaust reparations. The AJR is committed to the education of future generations about the Holocaust and is the UK’s largest dedicated funder of programmes and projects which promote teaching and learning about the Holocaust.

JEWISH CARE HOLOCAUST SUPPORT SERVICES

A support service for survivors who were in Europe during the war or those who came to the UK as refugees after. It also provides Support for Jewish refugees from former Yugoslavia.

THE NATIONAL HOLOCAUST CENTRE AND MUSEUM

THE WIENER LIBRARY

For the study of the Holocaust and research

HOLOCAUST-ERA INSURANCE PROGRAMS

Assicurazioni Generali has expressed profound sympathy for the immeasurable suffering endured by its former policyholders, their families who were victims of Nazi persecution. Generali has long been engaged in a voluntary worldwide effort to respond to inquiries and make payments on World War II-era policies to Holocaust victims and their family members. This substantial effort is ongoing to this day.

LINKS

RESTITUTION BY COUNTRY World Jewish Restitution Organisation

LIST OF COMPANIES INVOLVED IN THE HOLOCAUST Wikipedia

This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

This list includes corporations that were in existence during World War II and that are documented to have profited from participation in the Holocaust

HOLOCAUST REPARATIONS The Times of Israel

HOLOCAUST RESTITUTION The Times of Israel

HOLOCAUST ISSUES US Department of State

RESEARCH PAPERS Institute for Jewish Policy Research

HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE PROJECT: HOW EUROPEAN COUNTRIES TREAT THEIR WARTIME PAST William Echikson, January 25 2019 Institute for Jewish Policy Research

This first-ever report rating individual European Union countries on how they face up their Holocaust pasts was published on January 25, 2019 to coincide with UN Holocaust Remembrance Day. Researchers from Yale and Grinnell Colleges travelled throughout Europe to conduct the research. Representatives from the European Union of Progressive Judaism (EUPJ) have endorsed their work.

COMPENSATION FOR NATIONAL SOCIALIST INJUSTICE 11 AUGUST 2018 Federal Ministry of Finance (Brochure Download)

Almost immediately after the end of the Second World War, it became clear that compensation needed to be provided to those who had suffered damage as a result of National Socialist injustice. Those who had suffered oppression due to their political opposition to National Socialism or on the grounds of race, religion or ideology were particularly affected.

COMPENSATION AND RESTITUTION FOR HOLOCAUST VICTIMS IN FRANCE - SHOAH
Memorial de la Shoah .

RESOURCES FOR SURVIVORS AND THEIR FAMILIES US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Reparations The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, which recently won a substantial new award for holocaust victims, continues to set precedent. 1993
The Atlantic

HOLOCAUST REPARATIONS, SHOULD SURVIVORS SEEK COMPENSATION FOR NAZI CRIMES?
Kenneth Jost March 26, 1999 CQ Researcher March 26, 1999 – Volume 9, Issue 12

HOW HITLER SET OUT TO DESTROY ‘DEGENERATE’ ART BBC

In 1937, two competing exhibitions caused a dramatic split in the art world. In one, traditional German art held sway. The other featured the ‘degenerate’ modern art hated by Hitler. Eighty years later, WILLIAM COOK considers one of the most important clashes in 20th Century art.

NAZI ART THEFT: HOW HITLER'S ART DEALER AMASSED LOOTED PAINTINGS TO SAVE HIS OWN SKIN

Two exhibitions in Germany are displaying works from the collection of Hildebrand Gurlitt, a man with Jewish heritage who wheeled and dealed for the Third Reich when they confiscated 'degenerate art' from museums and Jewish collectors
Independent, Michael Glover, 7 November 2017

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