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05.19.05
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North African Holocaust survivors to receive restitution
By: Israel Insider staff and partners   
Published: May 19, 2005   
 
This, according to a decision of the German government, after it held negotiations with the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, also known as the claims conference.

This compensation would come in addition to a 50 percent increase in home-care payments for Holocaust survivors around the world, raising the total to nine million euros (approximately $11.25 million) a year. The claims conference distributes the money, which is meant to provide aging survivors the assistance they need to remain in their own homes, to 43 aid organizations in 17 countries. About half the money goes to Holocaust survivors in Israel.

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N. African survivors to receive Shoah restitution  - (Haaretz)  05.19.2005
 
 

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