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Weinberg Emergency Assistance Fund

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Holocaust Survivor Emergency Assistance Fund provides grants to social service agencies in the U.S. and Canada to benefit Holocaust survivors in need


Florida

Direct compensation payments are made from the Article 2 Fund and the Hardship Fund. The Claims Conference negotiates on an ongoing basis with the German government to include additional Nazi victims in compensation programs, increase payments, and provide increased funds for social services. Florida has the third-largest Nazi victim population in the United States, after […]


California

Compensation Direct compensation payments are made from the Article 2 Fund and the Hardship Fund. The Claims Conference negotiates on an ongoing basis with the German government to include additional Nazi victims in compensation programs, increase payments, and provide increased funds for social services. Cuts to federal Supplemental Security Income and adult day health care, […]


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 […]