The German government will pay more than $1.4 billion next year to Holocaust survivors, in the latest compensation for atrocities and persecution inflicted by the Nazis.
Nearly $890 million will go toward home care services — an increasingly vital aspect of the reparation effort, as the Nazis’ victims advance in age, nearly 80 years after the Holocaust ended.
The payments stem from annual negotiations between Germany’s Federal Ministry of Finance and the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, an organization representing Jewish Holocaust survivors also known as the Claims Conference. The funds are meant to help survivors live in dignity, decades after they were persecuted and lost loved ones and property.
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