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For Free Estimates 681-8280 IT DOESN'T HAVE TO COST A FORTUNE . . . ONLY LOOK LIKE IT! CALL LOIS HARON 851-6989 Allied Member ASID 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