Life insurance

  • Unpaid Life Insurance

    The Foundation for Individual Insurance Claims Sjoa (Stichting Individuele Verzekeringsaanspraken Sjoa) pays out life insurance policies of individuals who were persecuted as Jews during the Second World War in the Netherlands to their rightful beneficiaries. They have a list of approximately 2,500 individuals with life insurance policies that were likely not paid out to the

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  • There are thousands of unclaimed insurance policies for Holocaust victims and survivors. I will be focusing on the Dutch situation, but I am sure this will apply elsewhere, as well. In 1997, the Supervisory Committee on the Investigation of WW II Assets, or the “Scholten Commission” for short, named after its chairman, W. Scholten, was

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  • I came across a website which a list of approximately 2,000 unpaid or unclaimed life insurance policies of mainly Dutch  Jewish victims of the Holocaust. It was so profoundly sad to see so many families on that list. So much unfulfilled potential, it was heartbreaking. I looked for a name I could somehow find a

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