Tag: Julius Berman
Study: 56% of Austrians Don’t Know 6 Million Jews Died, But 58% Believe It...
While 51% were familiar with Adolf Eichmann, the administrator and organizer of Hitler’s “Final Solution,” only 14% knew that Eichmann was Austrian. As was Hitler.
New Survey Finds Canadians Worrisomely Ignorant about the Holocaust
However, 82% of respondents believe all students should learn about the Holocaust in school, while 85% said it is important to keep teaching about the Holocaust so that it does not happen again.
Algerian Holocaust Survivors to Receive Modest German Reparation
It is estimated that there are approximately 25,000 Algerian Jewish Holocaust survivors living around the world, bringing the cost of the Algerian Holocaust to the Germans to $79 million, or a little less than one dollar per German.
Top Claims Conference Officials Botched Probe of 2001 Fraud
“A majority of the claims made by the person who wrote the anonymous letter were refuted by Mr. Domnitser,” the report said.
Claims Conference Looking to Quell Media Storm on 2001 Letter
An anonymous letter sent to the Claims Conference’s Frankfurt office in 2001 identified five cases where restitution was approved for ineligible claimants.
Claims Conference Chairman Julius Berman Sees New Era In Holocaust Restitution
“We feel that this is a critical moment in the history of property restitution,” Julius Berman, chairman of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, told The Jewish Press last week, after returning from a weeklong trip to Europe.
Claims Conference Will Not Be Deterred
The Claims Conference (as reported in last week's Jewish Press) discovered a fraud perpetrated against the organization. In a sophisticated criminal scheme, falsified and phony documents were submitted to programs that make payments to Jewish victims of Nazism. These programs, funded by the German government, have been targeted by persons seeking to extract payments to which they were not entitled.