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New Survey by the Claims Conference Finds Critical Gaps in Holocaust Knowledge in Austria

More than One-Third Feel National Socialism Could Come to Power Again, and the Majority Polled Did Not Know Six Million Jews Killed During the Holocaust Julius Berman, President of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference), announced the release of a comprehensive Holocaust Knowledge and Awareness Survey of adults in Austria. More […]


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 […]


Promoting U.K. Shoah Education

In 1938, Max Lichtwitz of Berlin, a widower, made the heartbreaking decision to send his only child, Heinz, to the United Kingdom as part of the Kindertransport to save him from the growing persecution of the Jews. Heinz was placed with a childless Jewish couple in Wales, Morris and Winnie Foner, who raised him as […]


Fellow Profile: Laura Brade

Laura Brade is a Kagan Fellow at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, where she is a Ph.D. candidate in history.


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 […]


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