Belgium Announces Holocaust Restitutions - Details
Link Details | ID: | 34945 | | Title: | Belgium Announces Holocaust Restitutions - http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ja6QQXK25__dUcFekTa0RoFotFggD8VB9SE81 | | Description: | The Belgian government and banks have agreed to pay $170 million to Holocaust survivors, their families, and the Jewish community to compensate Belgian Jews for property that was looted by Nazi occupiers. Overall, $54 million will be paid to about 5,000 individual claimants; the remainder of the restitution will be placed in a Jewish trust. The restitution is not intended as moral compensation but rather as material compensation for personal property taken from Belgian Jews during the war. Some 50,000 Jews lived in Belgium prior to WWII, and approximately half died during the Holocaust.
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