#meanwhile in Germany 🇩🇪📍
In 2022, Germany marked 70 years of compensating Holocaust survivors with payment for home care.
“The payments to survivors and the home care program are very close to our heart,” said German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
The organization that handles claims on behalf of Jews who suffered under the Nazis said Thursday that Germany had agreed to pay approximately $1.2 billion euros ($1.19 billion) for home care and compensation for Holocaust survivors living around the world in 2023.
It brought the overall amount of compensation Germany has paid to more than 80 billion euros ($79.7 billion).
The announcement came as Germany marked the 70th anniversary of the signing of the compensation agreement that made it possible for Holocaust survivors to receive a measure of justice — the so-called Luxembourg Agreements.
“These agreements laid the groundwork for compensation and restitution for those survivors who had lost everything and continue to serve as the foundation for the ongoing negotiations on behalf of the estimated 280,00 Holocaust survivors living around the world,” Taylor added.
The German government invited hundreds of guests — including Holocaust survivors and members of the Claims Conference — to a ceremony at Berlin’s Jewish Museum to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the agreement and underline the special responsibility the country bears for the past, the present, and for the future.
Africans on the other hand have yet to receive, or even be acknowledged for *compensation and restitution* for those survivors who had lost everything...Smh
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