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."
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."
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.