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Gideon Taylor addresses guests during a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the signing of the Luxembourg Agreement on reparations between the Federal Republic of Germany and Israel, in Berlin, Sept. 15, 2022. (Tobias Schwarz/AFP via Getty Images)
June 23, 2023, 8:16 am
Gideon Taylor, CEO of Jewish Community Relations Council-New York, to step down
Transition comes as the city’s Jewish community contends with antisemitic attacks and waning support for Israel among progressive officials
By julia GERGELY
Paintings looted by Nazis during World War II are on display at the Louvre museum in Paris, Tuesday, January 30, 2018. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
January 17, 2019, 6:52 pm
Help recover Nazi-looted art, European Parliament urges EU states
Of some 650,000 works looted during World War II, about 110,000 once owned by Jewish families are still missing
By Marcy Oster
The Warsaw Ghetto in 1942 (CC-BY-SA Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-270-0298-10 / Amthor)
October 25, 2017, 2:33 am
Polish restitution law would exclude most Holocaust survivors and heirs
Jewish groups express dismay over legislation; experts put estimates of lost Jewish property at over $1 billion
By JTA
US special envoy for Holocaust issues Thomas Yazdgerdi. (YouTube screen capture)
April 27, 2017, 10:37 pm
US Holocaust envoy urges East Europeans to return Jewish property
Most signatory countries to the 2009 Terezin Declaration vowing to resolve Holocaust-related property claims have failed to follow through
By JTA
Warsaw skyline (Pixabay)
February 23, 2017, 2:40 am
Warsaw lists properties that pre-WWII owners can reclaim
Any listings not claimed in six months pass to city ownership; Jewish Holocaust restitution group urges extended deadline
By Vanessa Gera
The Warsaw Ghetto in 1942 (CC-BY-SA Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-270-0298-10 / Amthor)
July 27, 2016, 10:33 pm
Polish court upholds controversial restitution law
Ruling rejects bid to strike down legislation critics say prevents Jewish families from reclaiming stolen property
By JTA
Chair of Operations for the World Jewish Restitution Organization Gideon Taylor speaks at the International Coordination Forum for the Restitution of Holocaust Era Assets in Jerusalem, on June 8, 2016. (Elram Mandel/MFA)
June 10, 2016, 4:05 pm
At international forum on Holocaust restitution, ‘J’accuse’ against Poland
World Jewish Restitution Organization head decries utter lack of compensation in the country that, prior to World War II, 3 million Jews called home
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Bologna's Holocaust Memorial in Bologna, Italy. (YouTube screenshot)
May 31, 2016, 1:15 am
Holocaust monuments vandalized in Poland, Italy
‘Burn your banks’ scrawled in Bologna, broken stones and a neo-Nazi symbol mark second attack since last year in Raigrod
By JTA
Duhenah Reveaka of Bobruisk, Belarus is among thousands of survivors who rely on Claims Conference funding for aid. (photo credit: Sarah Levin/JDC/JTA)
May 24, 2013, 4:16 pm
Claims Conference head ‘never considered’ public apology over huge fraud
$57million con took 12 years to root out. But cost was borne entirely by Germany, and Holocaust survivors were not adversely affected, chairman Julius Berman says
By Uriel Heilman
Claims Conference chief Greg Schneider visiting a Nazi victim at her home in Moldova. (Photo credit: Courtesy of Claims Conference/JTA)
May 22, 2013, 12:30 pm
Top Claims Conference officials carried out own botched probe of 2001 fraud
Was the organization negligent in its internal investigations, or, after stealing $57m., is Semen Domnitser simply a shrewd criminal mastermind?
By Uriel Heilman
May 22, 2013, 4:49 am
Making sense of the Claims Conference chaos
Why did it take so long for a $57 million fraud to be exposed?
By Uriel Heilman
Claims Conference chief Greg Schneider visiting a Nazi victim at her home in Moldova. (Photo credit: Courtesy of Claims Conference/JTA)
May 14, 2013, 7:17 pm
Claims Conference failed to act when alerted to massive fraud in 2001
Letter revealing corruption reached Greg Schneider, today the CEO, but organization did not stop what became a $57 million scam
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