Holocaust reparations

German troops march in Bucharest, Romania on December 27, 1940. (AP Photo)

July 21, 2019, 12:16 am

Germany to compensate 8,000 Romanian Holocaust survivors living in Israel

Recipients set to receive monthly stipend of $225, retroactive payment of up to $54,300

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Holocaust survivors attend a ceremony at the Mishan home for the elderly in Tel Aviv as Israel marks annual Holocaust Remembrance Day. May 04, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

July 2, 2019, 11:40 am

Germany extends Holocaust compensation to survivor spouses

New York-based advocacy group successfully lobbies German government to continue payments to 30,000 elderly

By David Rising

Illustrative: In this photo from May 9, 2015, a Rabbi puts a rose on the railroad tracks at former concentration camp Westerbork, the Netherlands, remembering more than a hundred thousand Jews who were transported from Westerbork to Nazi death camps. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

June 26, 2019, 8:56 pm

Dutch railways to compensate Jews transported to Nazi death camps

Nederlandse Spoorwegen says it’ll pay tens of millions of euros to Holocaust victims for what was a ‘black page in the history of the company’

By AFP

A view of the southern coast of Crete in June 1943. (German Federal Archive/Wikimedia Commons/via JTA)

June 11, 2019, 2:35 am

Greek Jews honor Crete community drowned in entirety en route to Auschwitz

75 years ago, Nazis rounded up the island’s Jewish population and forced them onto the tanker Tanais, subsequently mistaken for a German war ship and sunk by the British

By Bernard Dichek

Hungarian Jews on the Judenrampe (Jewish ramp) after disembarking from the transport trains at Auschwitz-Birkenau, May 1944. To be sent rechts! – to the right – meant the person had been chosen as a laborer; links! – to the left – meant death in the gas chambers. (From the Auschwitz Album)

February 8, 2019, 10:02 am

US distributes further $30m to survivors of France Holocaust train deportations

State Department to administer monies as part of agreement with Paris over national rail system which transported Jews to Nazi death camps

By Ron Kampeas

In 1944, Hungarian Jews line up outside the 'Glass House' building from which Swiss diplomat Carl Lutz helped save the lives of tens of thousands of people. (FOTO:FORTEPAN / Archiv für Zeitgeschichte ETH Zürich / Agnes Hirschi)

January 16, 2019, 4:05 pm

DC court says Holocaust survivors can sue Hungary in the US for huge reparations

Potential multi-billion dollar suit dates back to 2010. Appeals court rules that in pursuit of justice, case can be tried in States. Lawyers say decision could go to Supreme Court

By Yaakov Schwartz

Monument at Westerbork transit camp in the Netherlands, from which Jews were transported to Nazi camps in Germany during WWII. (Patricia Hofmeester/ Shutterstock.com)

November 28, 2018, 4:33 am

Dutch rail says it will compensate for transporting Jews to Nazi death camps

Holland’s National Rail will pay restitution to relatives of those deported during World War II

By AFP

Illustrative: A Holocaust survivor shows her number tattoo. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images via JTA)

July 10, 2018, 6:35 pm

Germany agrees to $88 million more for Holocaust survivors

Claims Conference says additional government funding brings total compensation for next year to $560 million

By AP and TOI staff

Andre Nathan, who was born the same year that the Nazi-allied Vichy government revoked the French citizenship of Algerian Jews, recalls taking this picture of his parents and siblings outside the Oran synagogue on a Jewish holiday in the 1950s. (Courtesy of Nathan via JTA)

February 8, 2018, 3:42 am

Algerian Jews see ‘some justice’ as Germany recognizes their Holocaust suffering

25,000 elderly survivors who suffered under Vichy’s anti-Semitic laws now eligible for grants

By Debra Nussbaum Cohen

Illustrative photo of Algerian Jewish tailors. (Courtesy of JIMENA)

February 5, 2018, 10:32 am

In first, Germany to compensate 25,000 Algerian Jewish Holocaust survivors

Living under the French Vichy regime which collaborated with the Nazis, they were persecuted for being Jewish; now they are eligible for a one-time payment of $3,183

By Stuart Winer

Stephan Templ outside a building in Vienna which he claimed from the Austrian state, October 27, 2014. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

January 27, 2018, 5:05 am

In jail, Austrian historian writes book slamming Holocaust restitution system

Stephan Templ pens critique while imprisoned for improperly filling out a reparations form for a bureau that employed former Nazis

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Ori Pfeffer as Yoel in 'The Testament.' (Courtesy Gum Films)

January 11, 2018, 1:33 am

Holocaust film ‘The Testament’ breaks poignant new ground in a flooded genre

Israeli director Amichai Greenberg unfolds a number of surprises in a movie which asks when ‘Never Again’ evolves from ideology to liturgy

By Jordan Hoffman

Toys that belonged to Dutch Jewish sisters who were murdered during the Shoah, seen at Amsterdam’s National Holocaust Museum on January 15, 2017 (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)

January 5, 2018, 1:49 am

Dutch Holocaust survivor ordered to pay taxes on forced labor pension

86-year-old Inge Prenzlau required to pay up portion of $156 monthly compensation stipend she receives from Germany

By JTA

A man looks at the World War II Jasenovac memorial camp model on April 26, 2015, during a ceremony to remember the tens of thousands who were killed by Croatia's pro-Nazi regime. (AFP/Stringer)

September 29, 2017, 7:05 pm

US court rejects Croatia WWII victims suit that sought $3.5 billion damages

Nazi-allied Ustasha regime persecuted and killed hundreds of thousands of ethnic Serbs, Jews, Roma and anti-fascist Croatians

By AFP

Pavel Preida, a Roma Holocaust survivor in Moldova, and the document that states he was an inmate in a concentration camp. (Courtesy Roma National Center from Moldova)

September 23, 2017, 11:19 pm

Roma Holocaust survivors look to Jews as model for recognition — and reparation

Despite the murder and confiscation of property during WWII, illiteracy, lack of organization and racism prevent the community from receiving proper compensation

By Julie Masis