The International Commission on Holocaust-Era Claims (ICHEIC) stopped accepting claims March 2007. You can get information about their past activities on the ICHEIC website and on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum website.

We are also preserving historical documents from our Holocaust Survivors Assistance Program within the Washington state archives system. If you want access to these documents, call the state archives at 360-586-1492.

Filing claims

If you have filed a claim, as a Washington State claimant, and want to check on it, call us at 1-800-562-6900.

In addition, the Austrian General Settlement Fund is still processing claims already filed with them.

If you have not filed a claim yet, you may still be able to. If you know the name of the company with which your family was insured then you can have your claim(s) processed through them.

The following companies have agreed to accept post-deadline Holocaust-era claims directly from you:

Generali,
Allianz,
AXA,
Winterthur,
Zurich, and
their affiliated companies, as well as
other German companies

Reports

Update on Holcaust Survivors Assistance Program (96 KB) - July 2009
Update on Holocaust Survivors Assistance Program (97 KB) - June 2008
Update on Holocaust Survivors Assistance Program (97 KB) - July 2007
ICHEIC report: Finding claimants and paying them (291 KB) - June 2007
Update on Holocaust Survivors Assistance Program (101 KB) - June 2006
Report on outstanding insurance claims (249 KB) - April 2006
Work of the ICHEIC on Holocaust insurance claims (619 KB) - October 2004
ICHEIC report on Holocaust insurance claims (1.5 MB) - June 2002

Appendices and documents (1.2 MB)

Status report on Holocaust insurance claims (1 MB) - December 2000

Policyholder Names

Fact sheet on the publication of policyholder names.

View a list of 2,301 European policyholders (76 KB).
View 17 French policyholders of Riunione Adriatica di Sicurita (RAS) (5 KB). The RAS is now a subsidiary of the German insurance company Allianz.

If you have questions regarding these names contact us at 1-800-562-6900.

Background

Washington state's 1999 Holocaust Victims Insurance Relief Act

In April 1999 the Washington State Legislature unanimously passed, and Governor Locke signed into law, the Holocaust Victims Insurance Act of 1999.

The law includes the establishment of a Holocaust Survivor Assistance Office. This office will assist Holocaust survivors and/or the families and heirs of Holocaust victims in Washington to recover proceeds from insurance policies and other assets that were improperly denied or processed.

Holocaust news release - 2001-2003.

See Chapter 48.104 RCW - Holocaust victims insurance relief act.

Hearing transcripts

Rule-making hearing, November 20, 2000 (160 KB) On extension of "safe harbor" provision of the Holocaust Victims Insurance Relief Act of 1999.
Investigative hearing, May 1, 2000 (160 KB) On compliance of European carriers with Washington State law regarding Holocaust insurance claims.
Investigative hearing, January 13, 2000 (161 KB) On compliance of European carriers with Washington state law regarding Holocaust claims.
From Holocaust meetings before the NAIC work group - 1997-98.

NAIC working group

In April 1998, a NAIC Task Force was formed. This succeeded the NAIC Holocaust Insurance Issues Working Group, appointed in 1997. The Task Force's assignment was to complete the NAIC's work outlined by the investigation of the Working Group, which held hearings around the nation in 1997 and early 1998. Our Insurance Commissioner was part of the Task Force.

Holocaust Survivor's Assistance Office