Restitution

Raise Restitution Issue in Poland, Group Asks Obama

05/26/2011

(JTA) -- President Obama should raise the issue of restitution of private Jewish property during his meeting this week with Polish officials, a Jewish group has urged.

The World Jewish Restitution Organization made the request two days before Obama meets Friday with Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski and Prime Minister Donald Tusk.

The request follows a similar one contained in a letter to Obama from U.S. Rep. Christopher Smith (R-N.J.) and U.S. Sen. Benjamin Cardin (D-Md.), chairs of the Committee on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission).

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Germany Increases Allocations to Holocaust Survivors

04/05/2011

(JTA) -- The German government will increase funds given to Holocaust survivors by 15 percent.

The new deal reached Tuesday between Germany and the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, known as the Claims Conference, means that the German government's contribution to homecare funding for Holocaust survivors around the world will rise from $156 million in 2011 to about $180 million in 2012. The allocations will rise to nearly $200 million by 2014.

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Poland's Foreign Minister Misspeaks On Restitution

03/27/2011
Menachem Z. Rosensaft
Special to the Jewish Week

By disparaging the US government's support of demands that Poland compensate Jews for property stolen from them during the Holocaust, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski exacerbated the firestorm created by his government's peremptory decision to walk away from long-promised restitution legislation for spurious economic reasons.

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Talks With Poland To Renew Survivor Compensation

Elan Steinberg, vice president of the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants.

Government cites economy in scrapping restitution plan.

03/15/2011
Stewart Ain
Staff Writer

Jewish organizations here are promising to mount a major fight — exerting political and diplomatic pressure — to prevent the Polish government from abandoning its compensation of Jews and others whose private property was stolen by the Nazis and then confiscated by the Communists.

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Florida Survivors Shift Course On Insurance Giant Allianz

Allianz protesters in Florida

Group protests at golf tournament as part of new pressure campaign in uphill battle for justice.

02/16/2011
Stewart Ain
Staff Writer

Boca Raton, Fla. — These aging Holocaust survivors were teed off.

Last Sunday, on a cool Florida morning, an estimated 75 survivors and their supporters gathered on a street corner here just outside the gates of Old Course at the Broken Sound Country Club. Inside, professional golfers on the senior tour were competing in the fifth annual Allianz Championship.

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Holocaust Survivors to Picket Allianz Golf Tourney

02/07/2011

(JTA) -- Holocaust survivors are set to picket a golf tournament in South Florida sponsored by the international insurance company Allianz.

The company still owes an estimated $2 billion in unpaid claims to Holocaust survivors, say the protesters, who plan to picket Monday at the Boca Raton course of the $1.8 million Allianz Championship. The survivors also plan to return on the final day of the tournament.

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Double Hit On Holocaust Aftermath

A government report alleges that part of the skull of Dr. Josef Mengele, above, was kept in the drawer of an OSI director.

Shock of survivor-compensation fraud quickly followed
by news of Nazi criminals sheltered in U.S.

11/16/2010
Stewart Ain
Staff Writer

Seventy years after the start of the Holocaust, “betrayal” was the one word used to describe two Holocaust-related developments last week that had particular resonance with the Jewish community.

First, authorities announced Tuesday that two German Holocaust restitution funds had been ripped off to the tune of $42.5 million over the last 16 years and that 17 people had been arrested — including six insiders at the organization that administered the funds, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

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Claims Conference Insiders Nabbed In $42 Million Fraud

Claims Conference’s Greg Schneider said it is believed that some of the Jews who provided the ringleaders with their identificat

Scheme to rip off German government went back to 1994.

11/09/2010
Stewart Ain
Staff Writer

An 11-month federal investigation into allegedly fraudulent Holocaust reparation claims resulted in the announced arrest this week of 17 Brooklyn residents — including six insiders — on charges that they bilked the Claims Conference out $42.5 million.

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More on the Claims Conference: A Half Truth Is A Whole Lie

09/03/2010
Roman R. Kent
Special to the Jewish Week

Isi Leibler's Opinion article, "Clean Up the Claims Conference" (Aug. 27), shocked and infuriated me.

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EXCLUSIVE: FBI Expands Probe In Fraud At Holocaust Claims Conference

07/05/2010
Stewart Ain
Staff Writer

(POSTED MONDAY, JULY 5, 1:30 p.m.)  The Federal Bureau of Investigation has widened its probe into allegedly fraudulent Holocaust-era claims that could have bilked the German government out of millions of dollars, The Jewish Week has learned.

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