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2004-2021 Homecare Funding Gap
Estimated homecare cost funding gap for survivor population in need.

2010
Estimates of survivors worldwide living in poverty or considered poor ranged from 234,000-260,000, based on data from the Claims Conference and the Jewish Federation System, with 55,000 in the United States, 74,000 in Israel, and 90,000 in the Former Soviet Union

2013
The Claims Conference reported 56,000 survivors receiving home care and a total of $182 million from the German government, providing only $3,250 of the $15,600 annual cost for each recipient– or 11 weeks of care.

2017
67,000 survivors received home care; Germany provided $356 million in funding.  Claims Conference Press Release, July 2017.

2018
76,200 survivors received home care; Germany provided $478 million in funding.  Claims Conference Press Release, July 10, 2018.

2019
78,000 survivors received home care; Germany provided $538 million in funding.  Claims Conference Press Release, July 1, 2019.

2020
83,000 survivors received home care; Germany provided $598 million in funding.  Claims Conference Press Release, October 14, 2020.

2021
Claims Conference did not provide precise number of survivors who received home care in 2021, only how many were eligible. Germany provided $582 million in funding.  Claims Conference Press Release, October 14, 2020.

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see also “About a third of Holocaust survivors in the U.S. live in poverty. This group helps them.” The Washington Post. March 21, 2021.

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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. It is important to hear many survivors’ stories to appreciate the gravity and horror of the Shoah.

Renée Firestone is a distinguished fashion designer and survivor. She began sharing testimony about the devastation her family experienced in the Shoah after a Jewish cemetery and synagogue in her home city of Los Angeles, CA were vandalized with swastikas. Her mother and sister were both murdered at Auschwitz.

Leo Rechter was the founding Secretary of the HSF-USA, and served as the long-time President of the National Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors (NAHOS). He passed away in February.

Holocaust survivor Margot Capell, 100 years old, spoke to the Staten Island Advance about her family’s experience under the Nazi Holocaust for their “Stories We Can’t Forget” series. Her parents were killed in a concentration camp in Poland.

Thank you to the community who visits this page for your support and encouragement as we pursue justice and dignity for survivors.