Germany agreed to pay more than 560 million euros ($662 million) to help Struggling Holocaust survivors during the coronavirus pandemic, the Complaints Conference said Wednesday, an organization that negotiates with the German government to refund Holocaust sufferers.
The aid is for the poorest survivors of the Holocaust, who will get two bills of 1,200 euros ($1,400) over the next two years, the payments of which will come into force on 1 December.
The Claims Conference estimates that approximately 240,000 survivors will be eligible for payments, and maximum beneficiaries will live in Israel, North America, the former Soviet Union and Western Europe.
“We will have to deal with the demanding situations of the developing desires of survivors as they age, along with the new and urgent wishes brought about by the global pandemic,” Gideon Taylor, president of the Claims Conference, said in a press release.
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Germany had already agreed, in a recently concluded annual negotiating circular, to increase social investment by 2021 by EUR 30. 5 million, totaling EUR 554 million, according to the Complaints Conference.
Funding for social supplies home care, food, medicine and transportation. The new aid agreed on Wednesday will be an additional payment.
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“In the face of a devastating global pandemic, it is important to achieve further increases for survivors as a quick budget is sought to help them in those incredibly difficult times,” said Special Claims Conference negotiator Stuart E. It from Eizenstat.
A “large population of survivors, especially those of the former Soviet Union,” has been living in poverty lately, the Claims Conference said.
Based in New York, the Claims Conference has negotiated the resuming of the Holocaust with Germany since 1952 and has secured more than $70 billion for more than 800,000 Holocaust victims.