Agency responsible for the service rdemands made on behalf of the jews who suffered Nazi atrocities thursday said Germany has agreed to deliver $100.4 billion (€100.29 billion) next year holocaust survivor worldwide.

“Every year these negotiations become more important because the previous generation holocaust survivor Their demand is up, too,” said Greg Schneider, executive vice president of Claims Conference.

Compensation is negotiated with the Ministry of Finance Germany That includes $888.9 million for home care and support services for frail Holocaust survivors.

Additionally, a symbolic $175 million increase in Supplementary Fund for Difficulties benefits benefited more than 128,000 people holocaust survivor In the world, conferences against Jewish material claims Germany, Also known as the Claims Conference, based in New York.

“In addition to expanding welfare services, guaranteeing direct payments to survivors is essential to ensuring that every holocaust survivor Everyone’s needs will be catered for as long as they are needed,” Schneider added.

The Supplemental Hardship Fund payment was initially set up as a single payment, negotiated during the Covid-19 lockdown, resulting in three additional payments for survivors. This year, Germany Again accepting a hardship grant extension to 2027, although its completion is set for December 2023.

The annual increases are set at approximately $1,370 per person in 2024, $1,425 in 2025, $1,480 in 2026 and $1,534 in 2027.

survivor Recipients of the payments largely included Russian Jews who were not in concentration camps or ghettos, where they did not have access to the pension scheme, according to the claims conference.

As children, these survivors fled the so-called Einsatzgruppen: the Nazi mobile extermination unit responsible for murdering entire Jewish communities.

over a million jews They were killed by these units that shot hundreds of thousands of Jews and buried them in mass graves.

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