Success stories

A Monthly Pension of €239 and a retroactive amount of €51,000.

Shlomo, a resident of Tel Aviv, called in to the organization’s advisory hotline,  requesting assistance for his mother, Hana, a 95 year old Lithuanian born survivor.   He said that his mother had been in the Vilna Ghetto but ever since she came to live in Israel, she has never received any financial assistance whatsoever as a survivor.

Recently, Shlomo found an old document in German confirming that she did indeed live in the Vilna Ghetto and asked for help in submitting  a new application.
Shlomo was referred to the Tel Aviv Entitlement Centre  which operates with the support of the Los Angeles Jewish Federation.

The consulting lawyer, Adv. Noa Shein, who met Shlomo, sent the document to be translated and recommended that an application be made to the German Government for a social pension because of his mother’s work in the ghetto.  In addition, Adv. Shein recommended that a new application be made for an allowance given to Camps and Ghetto Survivors.  Adv. Shein completed all the necessary application forms and sent them to the relevant authorities.   Recently, the request for a social pension was granted and it was determined that Hana would receive a monthly pension of €239   – and  in addition to which she received a retroactive payment of €51,000.  Thus, thanks to the assistance of Aviv for Holocaust Survivors, Hana receives at the age of 95, for the first time in her life, a regular payment which helps her finance her medical expenses.

Aviv still accompanies Hana until the completion of the process and approval of her application for a Camps and Ghetto Survivor’s allowance.