Long-awaited narration of the first reparations in history; Opening event in partnership with the Paley Center for Media
NEW YORK, October 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Gideon Taylor, President of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference), today announced the opening of a new film, Reckoning: The First Reparations. The film was funded by the German government with support from the Claims Conference and was recently accepted for the annual United Nations Film Festival. Directed by the 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. Opening at the Paley Center in NYC a panel will be moderated by Rebekah JarvisChief Business, Tech & Economics Correspondent, ABC News and a discussion of the first time in history that compensation has been paid to individuals rather than from government to government.
Gideon TaylorPresident of the Claims Conference, said: “Capturing the incredible story of these agreements is crucial to the history of the Holocaust. The plight of the survivors did not stop when World War II was declared over. The Jewish world continued to fight for what had been taken from them, and negotiated to ensure that those critical parts of their lives that could not be restored would receive at least token reparations. We are incredibly proud of this film, which tells the harrowing story of those negotiations.”
Set after the Holocaust, the film chronicles the daunting process of negotiating compensation for the Jewish people Germany. These initial negotiations took place at a time when tensions were still extraordinarily high, and each agreement was its own complicated milestone that ultimately laid the groundwork for the reparations that—to this day—are being negotiated, expanded, and distributed to Holocaust survivors around the world each year.
Gregory Schneiderexecutive …
