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Ghetto Fund

posted 13 Nov 2007

Following negotiations with the Claims Conference, the German government has announced the creation of a Fund to pay compensation to Holocaust survivors who worked voluntarily in ghettos during the Second World War. This fund is not being administered by or through the Claims Conference, but directly by the German Government.

The Fund will make one-time payments of €2,000 (approximately £1,400) to an estimated 50,000 Holocaust survivors. Because the Ghetto Fund provides compensation for work performed in a ghetto, survivors who received awards from slave labour compensation from the German Foundation: Remembrance, Responsibility and Future will be entitled to apply.

The Ghetto Fund is separate from the Ghetto pension law. Survivors pursuing claims for a ghetto pension can still apply to the Fund.

The Claims Conference is continuing to press the German government to liberalise the Ghetto law so that more survivors can benefit from a monthly pension.