Germany will pay pensions to Jews who survived the siege of Leningrad

The German government, in the course of negotiations with the Commission on Jewish Material Claims against Germany (the Claims Conference), announced a decision to pay a monthly pension to Jews who survived the siege of Leningrad. This was reported to Novaya Gazeta by the Claims Conference organization.

The monthly payment will be $350. In addition to the blockade survivors, it will be given to Jews hiding in France, as well as survivors of persecution in Romania who currently do not receive Holocaust-related pensions - a total of 6,500 people.

“We are pleased that this year we will again be able to expand the criteria [of the assistance program] <…>.

Even 75 years after the Holocaust, these token payments provide recognition and restore some of the survivors' dignity taken from them in their youth,” said Gideon Taylor, President of the Claims Conference.

Also, a lump sum payment of €2,500 from the Children of the Holocaust will be given to Jews who meet the persecution criteria of the organization's program and were born in 1928 or later.

The Commission for Jewish Financial Claims Against Germany (The Claims Conference) is a non-profit organization with offices in New York, Israel and Germany that provides financial compensation to Holocaust survivors around the world. It was founded in 1951 by representatives of 23 major international Jewish organizations. Over the entire existence of the organization, the German government has paid about $ 90 billion in personal compensation to Jews.