Through a generous donation by the Rachel and Sam Boymel Family Foundation Jewish Family Service will buy an automobile to benefit Holocaust survivors in Cincinnati.
Continue readingShow me the money
Saying you’re sorry is fine … for a start. But how can we know your apology is really serious if you’re not going to back it up with a little gelt, huh?
It’s not trivialization if you’re making money on it
It’s the principle (and interest) of the thing
Germany adds $250m. in survivors’ pensions
After months of negotiations, the German government has agreed to add $250 million to its pension program for Holocaust survivors over the next decade, the Claims Conference announced Sunday.
The change, which is expected to benefit around 6,000 elderly Holocaust survivors around the world — nearly one-third of them living in Israel — followed months of negotiations with the German Finance Ministry, the Conference said.
The “Article 2 Fund” pensions will no longer be limited to survivors whose annual income is less than $16,000.
“This was, first and foremost, an issue of principle,” said Gideon Taylor, Claims Conference executive vice president. “Since its establishment, the Claims Conference has argued that Holocaust compensation payments are symbolic and should not be based on need.”
The agreement on the changes, which go in effect on October 1, stipulates that old age pensions — including governmental pensions and social security payments — will not be counted toward calculation of the income limit, granting benefits to thousands of survivors who were previously ineligible for the stipend, the Conference said.
Germany determines eligibility for the pensions based on a survivor’s persecution history, including incarceration in certain camps or ghettos, and time spent in hiding or living under false identity.
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Article 2 Fund stipends have paid more than $2 billion to more than 73,000 Holocaust survivors since they were established in 1992 through negotiations with the German government, with monthly payments averaging approximately $320, the Claims Conference said.
Source: Etgar Lefkovits, THE JERUSALEM POST, www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1188392518799, Sep. 2, 2007
Anti-Semitism at its finest
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The eternal Holocaust
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Holocaust victims’ Israel assets worth over NIS 1 billion
Holocaust victims owned many properties in Israel. The Custodian General, who holds most of them, has more than 1,000 real estate properties and a few thousand bank accounts that had been transferred to him in the ’50s and ’60s. Continue reading
Where do you think you are, Switzerland?
Bank Leumi won’t pay Holocaust victims’ heirs
Bank Leumi, which holds most of the accounts of Jews who perished in the Holocaust, does not intend to pay the money it owes the survivors and victims’ heirs at this stage. The bank made this clear despite the publication of the parliamentary inquiry commission on this matter last week.
Continue readingEthnic cleansing, Israel style
Gov’t decision strips Palestinians of their East J’lem property
The Sharon government implemented the Absentee Property Law in East Jerusalem last July, contrary to Israeli government policy, since Israeli law was extended to East Jerusalem after the Six Day War.
Continue readingMoney is a big factor
Stop ‘teaching’ the Holocaust
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Type out the word “Holocaust” on Google and you’ll get about seven million hits. So don’t tell me we’ve failed to raise the Holocaust in the consciousness of mankind.
Continue readingAt least he isn’t a Nazi
NJ accuses Holocaust lawyer of misusing money from two clients
NEWARK, N.J. — A lawyer who helped win billions of dollars for thousands of Holocaust victims has been accused by an attorney ethics panel of misusing money from two of those clients.
Edward Fagan, who gained worldwide attention for his role in litigation against Swiss banks and German corporations, could face sanctions up to disbarment if the charges are upheld.
“He stabbed me right in the back,” said Gizella Weisshaus, 75, who survived the Auschwitz death camp. “I supported him. He used me. He used my money.”
Efforts to reach Fagan for comment were unsuccessful. Several newspapers reported they could not contact him by phone or at his home on Monday. Fagan on Tuesday was no longer reachable at numbers he has used in the past. He has until February to respond to the charges brought by the New Jersey Office of Attorney Ethics.
The ethics office, part of the state Supreme Court, charged last month that Fagan misused $400,000 from Estelle Sapir and Weisshaus, of Brooklyn, N.Y., the initial plaintiff in the 1996 Swiss bank case. It became a class-action case and was settled in 1998 for $1.25 billion.
Fagan later was among lawyers who won billions from German corporations. He has since sued seeking money for suffering under South African apartheid and American slavery.
The attorney ethics office accused Fagan of draining Weisshaus’ trust account, then seeking to replace the money with funds from the settlement he had won for Sapir. The complaint also charged that he wrote checks to cash on Sapir’s account and transferred the money to business accounts.
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