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Breaking News Claims Conference Ombudsman Will Probe Botched Fraud Investigation
An ombudsman will investigate how top officials at the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany handled an anonymous letter that could have drastically reduced a multi-million dollar fraud at the organization. Julius Berman, chairman of the Claims Conference, has faced growing calls from board members for an independent investigation into the 2001 letter, which…
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News Claims Conference Chair Julius Berman Calls for In-House Probe — Yet Again
February 2010 was a time of high tension for top officials at the Jewish organization that processes restitution claims for Holocaust survivors. Just three months earlier, they had discovered the existence of what would turn out to be a massive, multimillion-dollar fraud taking place at the agency, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany….
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Breaking News Germany Agrees to Pay $1B for Home Care for Holocaust Survivors
The German government agreed to significantly expand its funding of home care for infirm Holocaust survivors and relax eligibility criteria for restitution programs to include Jews who spent time in so-called open ghettos. The agreement, reached after negotiations in Israel with the Claims Conference, will result in approximately $1 billion in funding for home care…
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Opinion Why Holocaust Survivors in Israel Are Angry
Back in 2008, it looked like the living conditions of Holocaust survivors were, at long last, to significantly improve. A state commission of enquiry, headed by retired Judge Dalia Dorner, concluded that there should be major increases in money directed to survivors, and the government agreed. Five years on, ask most survivors and they’ll tell…
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Life How to Share Our Grandparents’ Survivor Stories?
As a child, I was made to feel as though I were the beneficiary of an enormous and exclusive trust that would earn interest over the course of my life. My brother and I had been gifted the rich and complex inheritance of our grandparents’ survival, and none of the other kids we knew had…
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Breaking News Medical Aid Fund Turns Away Holocaust Survivors
A fund that helps Israeli Holocaust survivors pay medical expenses told recipients that it would stop receiving applications until next year, citing an overflow of requests. The Israeli news site Ynet reported that the Foundation for the Benefit of Holocaust Victims in Israel this week suspended the transfer of funds to over 8,000 survivors eligible…
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Breaking News Worker Gets 18 Months in Claims Conference Scam
A former caseworker for an organization that aids survivors of Nazi persecution was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison Friday for her participation in a $57 million fraud scheme. Polina Breyter, an employee of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany, also was ordered by U.S. District Judge Thomas P. Griesa in Manhattan…
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Breaking News Hungary Steps Up Fight With Claims Conference
The Hungarian government has urged the Claims Conference to “refrain from misleading, intentionally misguiding and provoking fear.” The announcement, which was recently published on the government’s website, is the latest escalation in a vociferous exchange which began last month, as the Hungarian government froze money transfers to the Claims Conference citing poor reporting. The Claims…
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