Berlin to allocate new aid to Ukrainians who survived Holocaust – media

KYIV. Sept 16 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The German government will allocate EUR 12 million to help 8,500 Ukrainians who survived the Holocaust, Deutsche Welle reports.

It is expected that payments will begin this fall, representatives of the organization "Jewish Claims Conference" said at a ceremony in Berlin on Thursday, September 15, dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Reparations Agreement between Germany and Israel.

According to the organization, in the future, Germany will also provide additional funds in the amount of EUR 130 million for home care for elderly prisoners of Nazi concentration camps. Next year, the total amount that Germany will allocate for home care, as well as compensation for Holocaust survivors, will amount to EUR 1.2 billion. In total, after the conclusion of the Reparations Agreement between Germany and Israel by the end of 2021, Germany has paid more than EUR 90 billion.

Meanwhile, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that Germany is providing financial support to Holocaust survivors now and will do so in the future. Berlin sees it as its task to ensure compensation payments so that victims of the National Socialist regime can live with dignity in old age, he said at an event in Berlin.

The reparations agreement between Germany and Israel is "the second constituent act of Germany" and "the moral foundation of our liberal democracy," Scholz stressed.

The agreement signed in 1952 still serves as the basis for Germany’s assistance to Israel and the victims of the Holocaust.