HSF-USA thanks President Biden for supporting Israel
"We are profoundly grateful to President Biden, and the bi-partisan leaders and members of Congress, and other elected officials, who have stood squarely with Israel and already taken steps to support the Jewish homeland with moral, intelligence, and military support in her most dangerous moment in over 50 years. President Biden has rightfully called this a defining moment, and taken decisive action to defend and preserve civilized values for the world." - David Schaecter, President of HSF-USA
Survivor Stories We Remember on Yom HaShoah
On this solemn day of Yom HaShoah we encourage everyone to spend some time with the first-person testimony of Holocaust survivors.
What Kristallnacht survivor Herbert Karliner says about Kristallnacht comparisons
"It is shameful for anyone to compare anything to Kristallnacht," Karliner tells the Forward.
Survivors Condemn Capitol Attack, Antisemitic Imagery of Insurrectionists
The poisonous political rhetoric from government leaders and media designed to arouse hateful passions, fan the flames of anger and violence, must be condemned by our leaders at every level, and by all of us in our families, businesses, religious institutions, and communities
Holocaust Remembrance Day: We have to help each other
Today is Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is occurring in 2020 during the very uncertain and dangerous coronavirus pandemic, with its terrible toll in human lives and suffering. Our hearts go out to all who have lost loved ones.
Full Senate Judiciary Hearing from September 17, 2019
Before and during the Second World War, many Europeans purchased insurance policies to protect their assets and loved ones. While many of these individuals perished as victims of the Holocaust, those who survived and the heirs of those who did not have since attempted to collect the proceeds from those policies. But beneficiaries have found it difficult to collect on these policies because the paperwork was destroyed during the genocide.
Attorney Samuel Dubbin's Testimony to the US Senate
"Legislation is necessary today to restore Holocaust survivors’ rights to pursue claims in U.S. courts against global insurers who failed to honor policies they sold to Holocaust victims’ families."
"Aging Holocaust survivors try to sue over Nazi-era insurance" AP story
Aging Holocaust survivors are trying to recover insurance benefits that were never honored by Nazi-era companies, which could be worth billions of dollars
David Schaecter: Survivors' "Profound Disappointment" with Stuart Eizenstat
Letter from HSF-USA to Secretary of State Hilary Clinton regarding Appointment of Stuart Eizenstat as US State Department Special Advisor in May 2011.
Opening of Bad Arolsen Archives
Holocaust survivors worked in 2006 and 2007 to open up 50 million pages of Nazi death camp and government and corporate complicity records that had been suppressed for 60 years.