Topics: grants
Guide to Services Funded by Claims Conference Grants
Home Care Home care comprises many aspects of care enabling Holocaust survivors to live at home for as long as possible. Home care workers assist with a range of activities related to daily living including but not limited to: bathing, dressing, eating, administering medication, light housekeeping and cooking, friendly visiting, respite care and chores such […]
Bulgaria
Home Care for Survivors in Bulgaria When home care funding for Holocaust victims in Bulgaria was increased in early 2011, the additional allocations available pushed the service to the top of the priority list for elderly survivors. But because homecare was not part of the Bulgarian family-oriented culture, Jewish community leaders had an uphill battle […]
Pro Bono Dental Program Helps Washington-area Holocaust Survivors
About 150 Nazi victims in the Washington, D.C. area have received free dental care since 2011 through a partnership of three area organizations, Jewish Social Service Agency (JSSA) in Rockville, MD.; the Alpha Omega International Dental Fraternity’s public service arm, the Alpha Omega Foundation; and the Maimonides Dental Society of Greater Washington. Iosif Fikhman, a […]
Centropa Budapest Cafe
In Budapest, elderly Holocaust survivors in need of a hot meal, a social worker, or medicine can find these necessities through programs funded by the Claims Conference. But sometimes there is a need for companionship and stimulation that goes beyond these daily, life-sustaining needs. Café Centropa, a program of the Vienna-based Central Europe Center for Research […]
Academic Fellowships
The Claims Conference is supporting Ph.D. and postdoctoral candidates in Shoah studies who are pursuing advanced scholarship on the fate of Jews who were systematically targeted for destruction or persecution by the Nazis and their allies between 1933 and 1945. Dissertation topics can include the immediate historical context in which the Shoah took place; its […]
