Germany to grant additional compensation to child victims of the Holocaust

[microrobert]

Germany to grant additional compensation to child victims of the Holocaust

Compensation will be in addition to existing pensions • Survivors who were born between January 1928 and May 1945 in Germany or Nazi-allied nations will be eligible for financial compensation • Holocaust survivors' advocate: This represents progress.

In an unprecedented move, the German government has decided to recognize the extreme suffering of Holocaust survivors who were children during the war, and grant them additional compensation.

Germany announced the decision following meetings between representatives from the Claims Conference, the heads of the Center of Organizations of Holocaust Survivors in Israel and representatives from the German Finance Ministry in Jerusalem on Sunday.

"This definitely represents significant progress," said COHSI Chairwoman Colette Avital. "After much effort, this is the first time that the German government is acknowledging the justice of the claim and announcing that it will consider ways to compromise with those children who suffered the Holocaust, and who were the hardest hit."

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/news...le.php?id=9553

[Pepe Gonzalez]

most germans today had nothing to do with it, it happened almost 70 years ago
what´s next? romans paying all european countries for the invasions of the roman empire? past is past.

[microrobert]

Quelques dénonciations du shoah-business

Robert FAURISSON

The devastating barb : « There's no business like Shoah business » is, sad to say, a recognizable truth.

Leon A. Jick, « The Holocaust : its Use and Abuse within the American Public», Jérusalem,Yad Vashem Studies, XIV (1981), p. 316

I first heard the bitter pun « there's no business like Shoah business » while working at YIVO [Institute for Jewish Research], an institution almost exclusively staffed by Holocaust survivors or their children. The joke acknowledged the seemingly limitless appetite for Holocaust materials, mainly as fund-raising tools within the Jewish community, but also as a source of identity – even a perverse ethnic pride – as well as the antidote to the fascination with Nazism outlined above.

J. Hoberman, « Film. Shoah Business », Village Voice (New York), 28 janvier 1986, p. 65

[microrobert]

Germany Agrees to Pay $1B for Home Care for Holocaust Survivors

Boosts Funding After Talks With Claims Conference

The German government agreed to significantly expand its funding of home care for infirm Holocaust survivors and relax eligibility criteria for restitution programs to include Jews who spent time in so-called open ghettos.

The agreement, reached after negotiations in Israel with the Claims Conference, will result in approximately $1 billion in funding for home care for Holocaust survivors from 2014-2017. Some of that money — $182 million for 2014 — already had been committed.

In 2015, the amount will rise by 45 percent, to approximately $266 million, and then to $273 million in 2016 and $280 million in 2017.

Germany Agrees to Pay $1B for Home Care for Holocaust Survivors ? Forward.com

[RussiaPrussia]

nice my taxes wasted again, last time we produced at least ballistic submarines which was good for the naval industry but this time we just give the money without any gain for our economy

[Szegedist]

It seems that the Holocaust survivor status is inheritable.