Topics: research
Warsaw Ghetto Recreation at Yad Mordechai
Yad Mordechai is a kibbutz in southern Israel, sitting roughly 2 miles north of the Gaza Strip. It was established in December 1943 by members of the Ha’shomer Hatza’ir Zionist youth movement who chose its name to commemorate the young leader of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, Mordechai Anielewicz, also a member of Ha’shomer Hatza’ir. At […]
Natalya Lazar
Natalya Lazar, a Ph.D. Candidate in Holocaust Studies at Clark University in Massachusetts, is a recipient of a Kagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies. Claims Conference fellowships support Ph.D. and postdoctoral candidates pursuing research on Holocaust-related topics. Her dissertation, entitled “Czernowitz Jews and the Holocaust,” explores Jewish life and the changing dynamics of interethnic and […]
Looted Art & Cultural Property Grants
The Claims Conference allocates funds for projects relating to looted art and cultural property. ERR ProjectThe compiling and making available of the records of the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR). Nazi-Era Provenance Internet Portal(NEPIP): Created by the American Association of Museums, NEPIP is a searchable registry of objects in U.S. museum collections that changed hands in Continental […]
Fellow Profile: Ella Florsheim
To help ensure that serious study and research of the Holocaust continues even after survivors are gone, the Saul Kagan Claims Conference Fellowships in Advanced Shoah Studies supports selected Ph.D. candidates around the world. Ella Florsheim of Israel grew up listening at the Shabbat table to her grandparents’ tales of surviving the Holocaust. During her […]
