The organization that handles claims on behalf of Jews who suffered under the Nazis says that Germany has agreed to extend another $1.4 billion overall for Holocaust survivors around the globe for the coming year.
FILE - A man walks through the gate of the Sachsenhausen Nazi death camp with the phrase 'Arbeit macht frei' at the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, in Oranienburg, about 30 kilometers, north of Berlin, Germany, Jan. 27, 2019. The organization that handles claims on behalf of Jews who suffered under the Nazis says that Germany has agreed extend compensation for Holocaust survivors around the globe for the coming year.
Additionally, increases of $175 million to symbolic payments of the Hardship Fund Supplemental program have been achieved, impacting more than 128,000 Holocaust survivors globally, according to the New York-based Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, also referred to as the Claims Conference.
The Hardship Fund Supplemental payment was originally established to be a one-time payment, negotiated during the COVID-19 lockdowns and eventually resulted in three supplemental payments for eligible Holocaust survivors. This year, Germany again agreed to extend the hardship payment, which was set to end in December 2023, through 2027.
As children they fled the so-called Einsatzgruppen — Nazi mobile killing units charged with murdering entire Jewish communities. More than 1 million Jews were killed by these units, which operated largely by shooting hundreds and thousands of Jews at a time and burying them in mass pits.
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