Jewish Fund: Better late than never

Rail to Auschwitz II (Photo by Pimke)

Here it is all these years later and Jewish survivors of Hitler's atrocities are finally going to be provided "some $1 billion in home care."

Under the terms of an agreement reached between the German Ministry of Finance and a "fund for Jewish victims of Nazi crimes," approximately 56,000 survivors in about 46 different countries will receive financial support … for a four-year period from 2014-2017."

Fund representative Hillary Kessler-Godin told the Berlin Associated Press that "the amount of financial aid for each person will depend on individual needs and

circumstances."  International survivors will also receive "other welfare services such as food, medicine or transportation." 

Wikipedia reports that over the past five decades, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against

Germany (aka "Claims Conference") has also administered the following:  Hardship Fund for Victims of Medical Experiments and Other Injuries, Program for Former Slave and Forced Laborers, and the Holocaust Victims Compensation Fund.

  

Resources

http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/05/28/3420760/jewish-fund-germany-agree-on-aid.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claims_Conference

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