CLAIMS CONFERENCE ANNOUNCES OPENING OF FIRST-EVER FILM ON REPARATIONS--RECKONINGS: THE FIRST REPARATIONS
NEW YORK, Oct. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Gideon Taylor, President of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference), announced today the opening of a new film, Reckonings: The First Reparations. Funded by the German government with support provided by the Claims Conference and recently accepted for the United Nations Annual Film Festival, the film is directed by award-winning filmmaker, Roberta Grossman. The film tells the story of how global Jewry achieved the first and only reparations ever paid by a state to those persecuted. The opening, at the Paley Center in New York City will feature a panel moderated by Rebecca Jarvis, Chief Business, Tech & Economics Correspondent, ABC News and a discussion on the first time in history that compensations were paid to individuals and not government to government.
- Long-Awaited Telling Of The First Reparations In History; Opening Event To Be Held In Partnership With The Paley Center For Media
NEW YORK, Oct. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --Gideon Taylor, President of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference), announced today the opening of a new film, Reckonings: The First Reparations . - Funded by the German government with support provided by the Claims Conference and recently accepted for the United Nations Annual Film Festival, the film is directed by award-winning filmmaker, Roberta Grossman.
- The film tells the story of how global Jewry achieved the first and only reparations ever paid by a state to those persecuted.
- For more information about the film: https://www.claimscon.org/reckonings/
For more information about the Claims Conference: www.claimscon.org
About the Claims Conference: The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference), a nonprofit organization with offices in New York, Israel and Germany, secures material compensation for Holocaust survivors around the world.