Global Courant
BERLIN — The organization that handles claims on behalf of Jews who suffered at the hands of the Nazis said on Thursday that Germany has agreed to allocate an additional $1.4 billion (1.29 billion euros) over the coming year to Holocaust survivors around the world. world.
The compensation has been negotiated with the German Ministry of Finance and includes $888.9 million for home care and support services for vulnerable and vulnerable Holocaust survivors.
In addition, increases of $175 million in token payments from the Hardship Fund Supplemental program have been realized, affecting more than 128,000 Holocaust survivors worldwide, according to the New York-based Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, also known as the Claims called Conference.
As children, they fled the so-called Einsatzgruppen – Nazi mobile killing units accused of murdering entire Jewish communities. Over 1 million Jews were killed by these units, which largely operated by shooting hundreds and thousands of Jews at a time and burying them in mass pits.
“For those who were able to flee and survive: they are among the poorest in the community of survivors; the loss of time, family, property and life cannot be healed,” the group said.
“By expanding payments to these survivors, the German government recognizes that this suffering is still deeply felt, both emotionally and financially,” the group said in a statement. “While symbolic, these payments provide financial relief for many aging Jewish Holocaust survivors living around the world.”