Holocaust survivors before and after

Holocaust survivors in Israel to receive dedicated assistance through new program

Thanks to the Claims Conference, to date, over $90 billion has been paid in indemnification, with $535 million distributed in 2024 to more than 200,000 survivors in 83 countries.

 Holocaust survivors in Israel.
 A SURVIVOR lights a torch at Yad Vashem on Holocaust Remembrance Day 2021.

Holocaust Remembrance Day: Six stories of survival, resilience

 Shoah Foundation Executive Director Chair Dr. Robert Williams and NLI chairman Sallai Meridor

National Library, Shoah Foundation preserve Holocaust, October 7 records

 People pay tribute during a wreath-laying ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day in the Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre, in Jerusalem, April 18, 2023.

Landmark exhibits shed light on life in German displaced person camps after the Holocaust


‘My Friend Anne Frank’ tells the incredible story of how Anne’s best friend survived the Holocaust

Pick-Goslar spent decades telling her story through interviews and lectures, but her recollections have only just been published for the first time in a memoir, “My Friend Anne Frank."

Anne Frank at her writing table in 1940; how many Anne Franks were lost in the Holocaust?

Before and after Auschwitz: the legacy left behind - opinion

78 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, survivors still measure time as "before and after the camps."

 THE GATE to Auschwitz, photographed in January 2021, 76 years after the camp’s liberation: There are still countless Jews who say about the Shoah, ‘If this could happen, how can anyone still believe in God?’

In those days at this time - opinion

The saving of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust.

A World War Two memorial of mass killings on the banks of the Danube River is seen in Budapest, February 11, 2014. A main Jewish group in Hungary has recently voted to boycott official Holocaust commemorations this year unless they more clearly show the role of local citizens in the Nazi deportation

Holocaust resistance fighter and writer Zofia Posmysz dies at 98

Posmysz, who was born to a Roman Catholic family in Poland, was imprisoned in concentration camps in 1942 for passing out anti-Nazi leaflets.

Zofia Posmysz, Auschwitz concentration camp prisoner number 7566; Zofia Posmysz during the 69th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Holocaust Survivor’s Assistance Program receives $10m. in funds

Approximately one-third of the Holocaust survivors in the US are estimated to be living in poverty, according to the JFNA.

 A committee meeting in July 2020.

Doug Emhoff spoke to a Holocaust survivor — and his AI twin

Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff spoke with the AI rendition of Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter, as well as Gutter himself, getting to know his story.

 Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, second from left, speaks to an interactive artificial intelligence video of Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter.

Letters from Anne Frank’s father, Otto Frank, donated to UofSC

The Anne Frank Center encourages anyone who received a letter from Otto Frank to contact afc@sc.edu to document the correspondence.

 Letters from Anne Frank’s father, Otto Frank

Yosef Kleinman, youngest survivor to testify at Eichmann trial, dies at 91

Kleinman was one of 110 witnesses at the 1961 trial of Eichmann, and at 31 was the youngest. His testimony was about the fate of Jewish youths at Auschwitz.

Joseph Kleinman, a 90-year-old holocaust survivor who survived Auschwitz and Dachau Nazi death camp wearing a face mask as he stands at his porch in Jerusalem, during the Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 21, 2020.

Auschwitz survivor Benjamin Orenstein dies at 94

In January 1945, he joined the death march and arrived to the concentration camp of Dora. Eventually, he was liberated in April 1945 when the US military liberated the camp.

THE LIBERATION of Auschwitz is the opening image of 'Liberation-The First Moments.'

900 Holocaust survivors died of COVID-19 in Israel in 2020

A total of 179,600 Holocaust survivors live in Israel; 5,300 were infected with coronavirus over last year

A Holocaust survivor shows the number that was tattooed on his arm in a Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust

Holocaust survivors renew wedding vows after 70 years

This is another entry in the long list of events the Claims Conference has organized for survivors and their families in Israel and around the world.

Holocaust survivors renew their wedding vows after 70 years in a ceremony organized by the Claims Conference.