Germany – 80,000 More Holocaust Victims To Get $300 Million Restitution Payments

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    (Holocaust Survivors File Photo AP)Germany – The German federal government has agreed to provide restitution payments to an additional 80,000 Jews, with the total amount estimated to be around US$ 300 million. Officials of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) called the decision a historic break-through.

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    Most of the money will go to Nazi victims living in the former Soviet Union countries who have never before qualified for pensions or payments from German restitution money. “This is the last group of people who have never received any compensation,” Greg Schneider, the executive vice president of the Claims Conference, told JTA in a telephone interview from Washington, where the negotiations took place.

    Most of the money will come from the Hardship Fund, which grants one-time payouts of € 2,556 (approximately US$ 3,150) to Jews who fled the German troops as they swept eastward through Europe until 1942. Until now, those payments were not available to Jews in Ukraine, Russia and other non-European Union countries in Eastern Europe. Applications for the fund will be available starting 1 November 2012. In many of those countries, the lump sum could amount to four years of regular pension payments, according to Schneider.

    Online:
    http://www.claimscon.org/?url=HFEE


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