The German government has agreed to a compensation agreement that will provide more than $1.2 billion in 2023 for homecare and social welfare services for Holocaust survivors around the world, Greg Schneider, executive vice president of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (the Claims Conference), announced on Thursday.
The announcement was made during a ceremony at the Jewish Museum Berlin commemorating the 70th anniversary of the signing of the “Luxembourg Agreements”—the Reparations Agreement between Israel and the Federal Republic of Germany. The 1952 agreements made it possible for Holocaust survivors to receive compensation payments for the Nazi persecution they faced during World War II.
Also, for the first time an agreement has been reached on Holocaust education funding of almost $10 million for 2022, close to $25 million for 2023, almost $30 million for 2024, and almost $35 million for 2025.
At the invitation of German Finance Minister Christian Lindner, the Claims Conference joined Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Israel’s Minister for Social Equality Meirav Cohen and several hundred guests at Thursday’s event.
The Luxembourg Agreements were signed on Sept. 10, 1952, in the City Hall of Luxembourg by the State of Israel, the Federal Republic of Germany and the Claims Conference, a nonprofit organization that negotiated on behalf of Holocaust survivors.
“This historic event, the 70th anniversary of the signing of the Luxembourg Agreements, is cause for commemoration and reflection,” said Gideon Taylor, president of the Claims Conference.
“The extermination of European Jews by the Nazis left a horrific chasm, not only in global Jewry, but in global humanity. These agreements laid the groundwork for compensation and restitution for those survivors who had lost everything and continue to serve as the foundation for the ongoing negotiations on behalf of the estimated 280,00 Holocaust survivors living around the world,” he said. JNS
How thoughtful for the additional billion when there’s hardly anyone alive anymore.
They waited long enough for this to make no difference in the lives of just about all holocaust victims. A person who was 10 years old when the war broke out is now 92. The reason they do things like this is so that they can point to their record in the future. Such as allowing SS men with the blood of thousands on their hands to live free lives and just when they are almost all dead they decide that anyone who worked at a concentration camp is an accessory to murder. So they drag in people in their 90’s and prosecute them. Even now an accessory to murder of thousands gets a 5 year suspended sentence. This allows them to record in history that they “didn’t stop pursuing Nazis till the day they died” and how anyone who worked in a concentration camp was prosecuted, even if they were simply a clerk,
by the time the wjc and other “non profits” take their piece
pennies will go to the few remaining survivors
as my father ah (surviovor of aushwitz gross rosen mathausen ,ebensee) used to say
everybobdy gets money except the people that were in the camps!