David Mermelstein's Statement to the US Senate
"With all those promises, I applied to ICHEIC. They said they could not find my father’s name. They sent a check for $1000 as a 'humanitarian payment.' ICHEIC sent out 34,000 of those $1000 checks. Survivors deeply resent the idea of a 'humanitarian payment' instead of the funds we know our parents set aside in case of a disaster. The whole thing was an insult to survivors, and it still is."
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."
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.