German citizenship

From the information I gathered you will apply for the Restoration of Citizenship at the German Consulate in Israel (I say Israel because your profile says you are from Israel, but if you are Israeli descent and live in another country you would just check the German Consulate in that country). I did not check the Israel website because I wouldn't understand the language, but I did find requirements from Canada which say:

Relevant documents

- valid passport of the applicant

- birth certificate of the applicant

- birth certificates of the applicant's parents

- marriage certificate of the applicant's parents

- former German passports and other documents of the applicant, applicant's parents and grandparents, that prove their former German citizenship

- naturalization certificates of the applicant, applicant's parents and grandparents

- all other documents that prove former German citizenship and Jewish faith

- if other Family members have already applied for/been granted German citizenship: naturalization certificate (“Einbürgerungsurkunde”, if available), otherwise name, date of birth, file number and where/when they have applied

All documents written in a language other than German should be accompanied by an official translation.

Those are the documents that you would need for a descendent in Canada, but check the Israel website because some countries may have different documents for you to do and maybe you won't need some of those documents if you are from Israel.

I think as long as you have the proof that you have had family members connected to Germany at that time with all of your documents that there would be no reason why they would deny you citizenship.

ronshamir32 wrote:

Hellow, i saw the new law that descendants of holocaust surviver can get a German citizenship.

How dose that work?
Can you explain me about that?
will it be hard to get German citizenship?

Not a new law at all, been around a long time.

What is new is that Austria has just recently made a similar law; likely that is what you heard of.

And for Germany it is not limited to holocaust survivors per se but German victims of Nazi repression that had to flee Germany or were stripped of their citizenship. The intent is to return German citizenship to the survivors and/or their decedents. Thus a Polish holocaust survivor or their decedents will not be given German citizenship - only ones with a claim to German citizenship.

And while this is not limited to Jews, having been a Jew at this time it is assumed one was discriminated against. Non-Jewish people might have more of a burden of proof about why they left Germany. Just having immigrated elsewhere in this period is not enough. And such a thing might be hard to prove so many years later; say that one was an anti-war or anti-Nazi activist and had to leave. Otherwise, Germans that immigrate and  naturalize elsewhere forfeited their German citizenship by doing so.

If you would have such claims then just contact the German embassy or consulate and inquire how to proceed. Your profile says you are Israeli, so they must have dealt with many such applications.