Holocaust survivors to receive US$1.03b
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May 30, 2013, Thursday
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GERMANY will pay around 800 million euros (US$1.03 billion) over a four-year period for home care for the aging survivors of the Holocaust, a Jewish organization said yesterday.
The Jewish Claims Conference, which represents Jews in negotiations on compensation for Nazi victims and their descendants, said some 56,000 Holocaust victims worldwide, over a third of them living in Israel, would benefit from the aid.
"We are seeing Germany's continued commitment to fulfil its historic obligation to Nazi victims," Stuart Eizenstat, the Claims Conference special negotiator, said in a statement on the organization's website.
"This ensures that Holocaust survivors, now in their final years, can be confident that we are endeavoring to help them live in dignity, after their early life was filled with indescribable tragedy and trauma."
A German finance ministry spokesman confirmed the details of the compensation.
"This is all the more impressive since it comes at a time of budget austerity in Germany," added Eizenstat, a former US ambassador to the European Union.
The Claims Conference said it had worked closely with the German finance ministry to calculate the victims' needs.
In the negotiations, the two sides also agreed to widen the scope of existing pension programs to include Jews who lived in "open ghettos," that is without walls but still in constant fear of deportation by the Nazis, the Claims Conference said.
The Jewish Claims Conference, which represents Jews in negotiations on compensation for Nazi victims and their descendants, said some 56,000 Holocaust victims worldwide, over a third of them living in Israel, would benefit from the aid.
"We are seeing Germany's continued commitment to fulfil its historic obligation to Nazi victims," Stuart Eizenstat, the Claims Conference special negotiator, said in a statement on the organization's website.
"This ensures that Holocaust survivors, now in their final years, can be confident that we are endeavoring to help them live in dignity, after their early life was filled with indescribable tragedy and trauma."
A German finance ministry spokesman confirmed the details of the compensation.
"This is all the more impressive since it comes at a time of budget austerity in Germany," added Eizenstat, a former US ambassador to the European Union.
The Claims Conference said it had worked closely with the German finance ministry to calculate the victims' needs.
In the negotiations, the two sides also agreed to widen the scope of existing pension programs to include Jews who lived in "open ghettos," that is without walls but still in constant fear of deportation by the Nazis, the Claims Conference said.
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