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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 562

reparations

Omer Balva and his father Eyal in an undated photo. (Courtesy)
December 2, 2024, 2:57 am
Hezbollah killed his son. Now he’s suing Iran for him – and 133 other American victims
This month, the Balva family and US attorney Jonathan Missner filed a suit against the Islamic Republic for funding the terror group that killed US citizen Sgt. 1st Class Omer Balva
By Cathryn J. Prince
Illustrative: A woman enters a building where stumbling stones, engraved with names of Jews killed by the Nazis, are seen in front of the entrance, in Rome's Ghetto Jewish neighborhood, January 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
August 16, 2023, 5:05 am
Italian Jewish leader says new $67 million Holocaust reparations fund ‘a mockery’
To solve a diplomatic dispute with Germany over civil suits for Nazi crimes, Italy decides to pony up – but Jewish community members say the government is trying not to pay out
By Giovanni Vigna
Illustrative -- Morris Griffin holds up a sign during a meeting by the Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans in Oakland, California, December 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
December 22, 2022, 10:54 am
Reconstructionist Judaism issues ‘moral position’ on African American reparations
Resolution doesn’t mention financial compensation for those harmed by slavery and the lasting effects of racial injustice
By Dave Schechter
Clint Smith is the author of December’s cover story in the Atlantic, 'Monuments to the Unthinkable,' exploring how Germany — and by extension, the United States — accounts for the crimes of its past. (Courtesy the Atlantic via JTA)
December 3, 2022, 9:13 am
A Black writer explores how Germany remembers its ‘unthinkable’ past
Poet and journalist Clint Smith pens an insightful analysis on seeing Germany’s commemoration of the Holocaust firsthand and how it impacts his conception of US penance for slavery
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Residents gather next to an internet hotspot in Kherson, southern Ukraine, Monday, Nov. 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
November 15, 2022, 5:33 am
Israel abstains on pro-Ukraine UN resolution after Kyiv backed Palestinian measure
One Israeli official says abstention on reparations for Ukraine unrelated to Kyiv-backed vote requesting ICJ legal opinion on Israeli ‘occupation’
By ToI Staff and AFP
German soldiers try to dislodge snipers in Warsaw during the Nazi invasion of Poland in September 1939 in World War II. (AP Photo)
October 3, 2022, 3:51 pm
WWII: Poland officially seeks $1.3t from Germany, including for Jews killed by Poles
Formal demand for reparations over Nazi German occupation signed by Warsaw’s foreign minister; Berlin has said it considers the matter settled
By AP and ToI Staff
File - Former Polish President Alekdander Kwasniewski touches the statue after praying for the dead at a ceremony marking 70 years since Poland's villagers murdered hundreds of their Jewish neighbors during World War II in Jedwabne, Poland, July 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
September 12, 2022, 1:51 pm
Daily Briefing Sept. 12: Poland seeks WWII reparations – for Jews killed by Poles
Diaspora reporter Judah Ari Gross delves into a shocking story out of Poland; health reporter Nathan Jeffay brings us the latest in COVID research and a cancer detection blood test
By ToI Staff
German soldiers search rubble in Westerplatte for Polish survivors in Danzig, Poland on September 2, 1939. (AP Photo)
September 1, 2022, 9:57 pm
Germany rebuffs Polish demand for huge WWII reparations: ‘Issue is closed’
Berlin points to 1953 decision by Warsaw to renounce claims against East Germany; Polish opposition parties dismiss government’s claim as a domestic political ploy
By Bernard OSSER
A memorial plaque for the eleven athletes from Israel and one German police officer were killed in a terrorist attack during the Olympic Games 1972, stands at the former accommodation of the Israeli team in the Olympic village in Munich, Germany, August 27, 2022. (AP/Matthias Schrader)
August 31, 2022, 5:33 pm
Germany, families of Munich massacre victims agree on compensation ahead of memorial
Berlin raises offer to 28 million euros; agreement ‘cannot heal all wounds. But it opens a door to each other,’ President Herzog and German counterpart say in joint statement
By Kristen Grieshaber
Hitler receives a Volkswagen for his 50th birthday. (Public domain)
June 25, 2022, 1:20 pm
Nazi past of top German business families is ‘hiding in plain sight,’ says author
In ‘Nazi Billionaires,’ journalist David de Jong investigates six uber-wealthy German families that colluded with National Socialism and ‘went free with their fortunes intact’
By Matt Lebovic
Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss (Scott Olson/Getty Images/ via JTA) and local resident Lesley Williams (Courtesy of Lesley Williams/ via JTA).
November 7, 2021, 3:20 am
The case for reparations, according to 2 Jews in the first US city to offer them
As Chicago suburb Evanston compensates some Black residents for past housing injustices, Jewish mayor Daniel Biss and local Lesley Williams disagree on whether it’s a good start
By Asaf Shalev and PHILISSA CRAMER
Iraqi Jews arrive in Israel's Lod Airport on May 1, 1950. (GPO / BRAUNER TEDDY)
December 16, 2019, 9:49 pm
Jewish refugees left $150 billion in Middle Eastern countries, Israel estimates
Sum, which is not adjusted for inflation, could serve as basis for future reparation demands
By JTA and ToI Staff
Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, speaks at the group's biennial in Chicago about combating racism, Dec. 12, 2019. (Courtesy of the Union for Reform Judaism via JTA)
December 13, 2019, 8:53 pm
Reform Jewish movement votes to support reparations for African-Americans
Leaders paint resolution, adopted at biennial conference, as next step in the organization’s historical support for civil rights
By Ben Sales
In this file photo taken on September 6, 1939, Germans tanks cross a river into Polish territory. Nazi forces invaded Poland from the west on September 1, 1939, prompting Britain and France to declare war on Berlin two days later. Soviet forces attacked Poland from the east on September 17, under a secret pact with Germany, and the city of Warsaw surrendered 10 days later. (AFP)
August 28, 2019, 6:31 pm
Feeling its WWII wounds, Poland seeks German reparations 80 years on
There are living Poles ‘who experienced the same suffering as the Jewish nation,’ contends right-wing lawmaker as Warsaw pushes for victimhood recognition
By Stanislaw Waszak and Mathieu FOULKES
The remains of the Warsaw ghetto, which the German SS dynamited to the ground in 1945 after slaughtering some 60,000 Jews. (AP Photo)
April 26, 2019, 5:21 pm
Poles look to charge Germans $850 billion to mark 80 years since Nazi invasion
Lawmaker heading parliamentary team on potential war reparations says committee’s work should be done by September 1, the anniversary of the start of World War II
By Agencies and ToI Staff
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