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.
Statement by Jack Rubin to US House of Representatives
Jack Rubin served on the advisory committee of the Jewish Family Services in West Palm Beach, and is a member of the executive committee of the HSF-USA, to fight for the rights of tens of thousands of Holocaust survivors still living in the US, especially those living in poverty.