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Germany Expands
Reparations
Berlin (JTA) — Some 7,500 Holo-
caust survivors will receive compensa-
tion from Germany as a result of a
new agreement. The agreement,
signed between Germany and the
New York-based Conference on Jewish
Material Claims Against Germany,
expands the eligibility criteria to two
groups of survivors who until now
have not received any compensation
from . the German government.
Payments are expected to be made
after Jan. 1, 1999.
One group is made up of survivors
who were denied compensation
because their annual income exceeded
$16,000 for a single person, or
$21,000 for a married couple. But for
4,500 survivors, who meet this criteria
when their Social Security income is
excluded, compensation now will be
available.
The other group includes survivors
who spent the war years in camps that
were not included in the original com-
pensation agreement. Survivors who
were incarcerated in special camps for
Jews located in Austria, in forced labor
camps on the Austro-Hungarian bor-
der or in forced military labor battal-
ions for Hungarian Jews on the
Ukrainian front will now also be able
to receive compensation. An estimated
3,000 survivors fall into this category.
The German government will
spend $25 million a year on the pen-
sions for these 7,500 survivors.
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Norway To Pay
Camp Survivors
, ,
New York (JTA) — Jewish groups
praised Norway's approval of a draft
law setting aside about $58 million for
Jewish survivors of Nazi death camps,
their descendants and Jewish organiza-
tions.
The Scandinavian country became
the first nation occupied by the Nazis
during World War II to launch a plan
to pay compensation to Jews for the
Holocaust.
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