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Today is Yom HaShoah, a day for remembering the victims of the Holocaust. In Israel and around the world, ceremonies are being held to memorialize the six million who perished. Our work at the Claims Conference focuses on those whose lives were destroyed by the Shoah, both those who were murdered and those who survived. We [...]  Diana Kogan, program officer for the Claims Conference recently visited our programs in Kiev and Chernigov, Ukraine. She met with many survivors on this visit and was particularly struck by their deeply religious roots and upbringing as well as the important roles many of their family members played in the Soviet structure. In the former [...] The records of the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg – the primary Nazi agency responsible for the plunder of artworks, libraries, archives and Judaica in the German-occupied territories outside the Reich – were scattered in nine countries after World War II. The largest collection of them, which is held in Ukraine and which details the plunder [...] |
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