Topics: Closed Programs
Dutch Railway Compensation
This program is now closed. The following information is for historical purposes only. The Claims Conference wishes to inform Holocaust survivors and the families or heirs of Holocaust victims, who were transported to concentration and extermination camps during World War II by Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS), the Dutch state railway company, that they may be eligible […]
Mauerbach Hardship Fund
Together with the Federation of Jewish Communities in Austria, the Claims Conference continues to press for the return of all Nazi-looted art objects to former owners or their heirs and for the sale of unclaimed objects for the benefit of victims of Nazi persecution in and from Austria. In 1986, the Claims Conference met with […]
Austrian Bank Fund
The Austrian bank Österreichische Creditanstalt – Wiener Bankverein was taken over by the Nazis in 1938 following the Anschluss and renamed the Creditanstalt Bankverein (CABV). During World War II, the CABV expanded into the Czech Lands, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Ukraine, Yugoslavia, Romania and Bulgaria. By 1942, it fell fully under the control of the Deutsche […]
Austrian Slave and Forced Labor Fund
Following Germany’s example in grappling with the issue of compensating former slave and forced laborers under the Nazis, the Austrian government commissioned historians to research slave and forced labor in Austria during World War II. Their reports were issued in 2000: www.historikerkommission.gv.at
Austrian General Settlement Fund (GSF)
Please note: This program is closed. In 2000, the Claims Conference intensified its property negotiations with Austria, contending that over the last 50 years Austria had not adequately addressed the major material losses of its Jewish population during the Holocaust. Not only was the First Republic unable to protect a part of its citizens from […]
