$1.4 Billion More

The Organization (New York-based Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, also referred to as the Claims Conference) that handles Compensation Claims on behalf of the Jews who suffered under the Nazis said today that Germany has agreed to extend another $1.4 Billion Dollars (1.2 Billion Euros) to Holocaust Survivors Worldwide in the coming year.

(A German Einsatgruppen Soldier near Ivanhorod, Ukraine, the Soviet Union shooting a Mother and her Baby after having just shot a Woman on his left and with 3 Jewish Men digging graves for the Victims (before they took were shot.)

A German Soldier took this picture and mailed it home with the inscription “Ukraine 1942 – Judenaktion Iwangorod” (Ukraine 1942, Jewish Action Ivangorod.) It was intercepted by the Polish Resistance at the Warsaw Post Office and sent to the Polish Government -In-Exile in London and to all the Allied Countries.)

 

It includes $888.9 Million Dollars for Home Care and Supportive Services for frail and vulnerable Survivors.

An addition $175 Million Dollars will go to the Hardship Fund Supplemental Program.

The Program, which helps 128,000 Holocaust Survivors Worldwide, was created during Covid Lockdowns. It is for Former Soviet Jews (from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia) that weren’t in Nazi Concentration Camps or Death Camps and that don’t receive money from the Main Compensation Pension Fund.

These Survivors are those that survived the German Einsatzgruppen (Mobil Killing Squads) as the Germans went throughout the Soviet Union from June 1941 until the end of the War and murdered 1 Million Jewish Men, Women and Children by shooting them over open pits.

It is called the “Holocaust by Bullets” and one of the largest Massacres took place at Babyn Yar outside of Kyiv, Ukraine, USSR where 33,771 Men, Women and Children were shot on September 29-30, 1941. Another 150,000 People were murdered at the same spot in separate Massacres up until Kyiv was liberated in 1943.

The Survivors of these Massacres (who either hid or were shot, fell in the pit of dead bodies and were able to later escape) received no Compensation from West Germany or from East Germany and only started receiving Compensation from Germany in 2020 (75 years after the Holocaust ended.)

The Program was set to end in December 2023, but will now go through 2027.

The Fund will give $1,370 Dollars per person for 2024, $1,425 Dollars per person for 2025, $1,480 Dollars per person for 2026 and $1,534 Dollars per person for 2027.

Additionally, the German Government will pay $41.6 Million Dollars for 2026 and $45 Million Dollars for 2027 for Holocaust Education.

Sadly, most people 40 and under don’t know the truth about the Holocaust or don’t believe it even happened.

There are around 400,000 Holocaust Survivors alive today (in 1945 there were around 3.5 Million Holocaust Survivors.)

100,000 live in the United States; 100,000 live in Israel and the remaining 200,000 live around the World (mostly in the Former Soviet Union – including in war-torn Ukraine.)

They are in their 80s-100s and most live well-below the Poverty Live (regardless of where they live.) They have suffered 80+ years of Mental and Physical Health Issues from their time during the War (from Malnutrition, from Beatings, from Medical Experimentation, from Bullets, from Bombs, etc.)

Add to that they saw their Family and Friends murdered (shot by bullets, beaten to death, gassed to death, etc.) by the Germans.

Since 1952, the West German (and then the Reunited German Government after 1990) has paid $90 Billion Dollars to Holocaust Survivors and to Holocaust-Related Issues (Health Care, Memorials, Museums, Education, etc.)

In 2023, the Claim Conference will distribute Millions of Dollars in Compensation to the Survivors in 83 Countries and $760 Million Dollars in Grants to 300 Social Service Agencies Worldwide that provide vital services (such as Home Care, Food and Medicine) to Holocaust Survivors.

Anyone who believes that the Holocaust Survivor is getting rich from any of this money is mistaken.

Anyone who believes that the German Government’s $90 Billion Dollars paid out over the past 71 years (since 1952) is also mistaken.

Had the 6 Million Jewish Men, Women and Children not been murdered by the Germans from 1933-1945 (but had still be discriminated against as well as physically and emotionally armed) it is estimated that the German Government would have had to pay 30 times the $90 Billion Dollars it has.