(NEW YORK) — After a year of tough negotiations, Germany has agreed to pay pensions to about 16,000 additional Holocaust victims worldwide — mostly survivors who were once starving children in Nazi ghettos, or were forced to live in hiding for fear of death.
The agreement announced Monday between the New York-based Claims Conference and the German government is "not about money — it's about Germany's acknowledgment of these people's suffering," said Greg Schneider, the conference's executive vice president.
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These people truly deserve this compensation. I am 66 yrs old; but when I was in 5th grade, a local lady who was a victim of the Holocaust came and spoke to our class. One of the stories she related was of a family swimming to safety. The mother was trying to save both her twins; but sadly in the end she had to choose between the two in order to save just one. This story has stuck with me all my life. I cannot imagine having to go thru such trauma.
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