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Claims Conference
Details A New Deal
New York (JTA) — Holo-
caust survivors who have
been unable so far to collect
reparations from the Ger-
man government can now
apply for funds, it was an-
nounced by the Conference
on Jewish Material Claims
Against Germany.
This notification follows
the announcement in early
November that the Claims
Conference and the German
government had signed a
compensation accord on ad-
ditional reparations
payments.
Thousands of Nazi victims
who resided behind the Iron
Curtain never received in-
demnification because they
were unable to file applica-
tions by the 1965 deadline
stipulated in the 1952
reparations agreement, ac-
cording to Israel Miller,
president of the Claims Con-
ference.
Under the new agreement,
Holocaust survivors who can
prove they spent at least six
months in concentration
camps, or 18 months in
ghettos, or 18 months in
hiding under inhumane con-
ditions, are eligible to
receive reparations.
Such victims are eligible
even if they previously
received one-time payments
of up to 5,000 marks — about
$3,200 — under the German
Federal Indemnification
Law or from the Claims Con-
ference Hardship Fund, or
payments greater than 5,000
marks for extended in-
carceration.
Individuals who currently
receive pensions under the
German Federal Indem-
nification Law or the Israeli
Law for Invalids of Nazi
Persecution are ineligible,
as are Nazi victims who
never left their original
countries of residence or
subsequently returned to
those countries.
Approved claimants will
receive monthly payments of
500 marks — about $320 —
beginning August 1, 1995,
and a limited interim pay-
ment, according to the con-
ference.
No deadline has been an-
nounced for the filing of ap-
plications.
The November accord was
reached under Article 2 of
the implementation agree-
ment to the German
Unification Treaty reuniting
East and West Germany, in
which the German govern-
ment agreed to negotiate
with the Claims Conference
for hardship payments to
Nazi victims who had
previously received no com-
pensation or only minimal
indemnification.
The agreement also makes
available German govern-
ment funds for grants to
Jewish institutions and
organizations throughout
the world which provide
shelter or social care to
substantial numbers of el-
derly Jewish Nazi victims,
according to the Claims Con-
ference.
"The recent agreement
between the German
government and the Claims
Conference will make it
possible to expand and im-
prove facilities and services
to elderly Holocaust sur-
vivors, many of whom are
frail and needy," said Mr.
Miller.
Applications for such
grants must be filed with the
The Claims
Conference and
the German
government had
signed a
compensation
accord on
additional
reparations.
Claims Conference by March
1, 1993.
In separate but related
restitution news, Dec. 31,
1992, is the application
deadline for property claims
in the former East Germany.
Those whose East German
property was confiscated or
otherwise lost during and
immediately after World
War II can apply for the
return of or monetary com-
pensation for their land.
About 20 percent of the
total applications received so
far —approximately 400,000
— are by those whose prop-
erty was confiscated by the
Nazis, according to
Deuteron, a Hamburg-based
property group.
Most of the remaining
claims were filed by victims
of the Communist regime in
East Germany.
German legal experts note
that many Jewish victims of
the Holocaust were never in-
formed about their rights
concerning property loss in