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| By: Associated Press |
| Published: November 16, 2005 |
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Parliament agreed Wednesday to pay out hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation to Holocaust survivors once the last related case against Austria in a U.S. court is settled or dropped.
The government and Austrian companies earlier this year pledged to pay US$210 million to endow the fund once all court cases against Austria relating to the Holocaust were resolved, but the deal had to be approved by parliament.
Only one court case is still pending -- Whiteman vs. Austria -- in which Holocaust victims are suing Austria for artworks taken from them during the Nazi era.
Members of Vienna's Jewish community, the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien, earlier this year agreed to withdraw 770 applications for compensation and its friend-of-the-court status in the Whiteman vs. Austria case.
Vienna was home to a vibrant Jewish community of some 200,000 before World War II. Today, it numbers about 7,000.
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