HAARETZ:Dutch Jews slam Germany over Shoah payment loophole
Dutch Jews slam Germany over Shoah payment loophole
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Germany is unjustly withholding money from Dutch Holocaust survivors, an umbrella group for Dutch Jews told Haaretz. Yesterday, on the eve of the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the group’s leaders presented Germany with a petition protesting “injustice to 2,000 Dutch survivors.”
The bone of contention is a one-time grant the Dutch survivors received in the 1960s. Because of this grant, most of the survivors from the Netherlands are ineligible for compensation under a new arrangement agreed last year.
“We found that because of this one-time grant of some 1,400 euros on average, we’re not entitled to a monthly payment of 270 euros which is guaranteed in Article 2 of the Claims Conference,” said the initiative’s leader, Avraham de Vries.
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Along with the de Vries group in Tel Aviv, a group of Jewish survivors in the Netherlands gave the German embassy in the Hague a copy of the petition, which is addressed to Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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How sad. I was born in 1940 in Amsterdam and was not paid the money during those times. I lost my father in the Holocaust. My mother survived and I was in hiding with a widow who had 4 daughters. I have lived in the US since 1953 and wonder if I am entitled to this 270 euros per month from Article 2 of the Claims conference. A response would be much appreciated.
Sincerely,
Philip Pach Speyer
Scottsdale, Arizona
USA