12/10/2014
WASHINGTON – France has signed an agreement with the United States under which it will compensate Nazi Holocaust survivors who are Americans or others and were deported from France from a fund totaling $60 million.
The agreement was signed on Monday and will come into effect following approval by the French parliament, according to the U.S. Department of State which defined the terms of the deal last week.
According to the agreement, $60 million will be used by the U.S. to create a fund to compensate those Holocaust survivors, their spouses and children who claim it and fulfill the requirements.
The agreement aims to pay those people who were deported from France to Nazi concentration camps through the French rail company SNCF during the country’s occupation by the Germans between 1940 and 1944.
In order to gain the benefits of the deal, the person should not have had access to any compensation or pension programs which France has been providing since 1946.
The U.S. will be the only country to distribute the funds to those who fulfill three requirements.
First, Holocaust deportees will be compensated, provided that they are not French, Belgian, Polish, British or from former Czechoslovakia as those countries already have similar accords with France.
According to the U.S. Department of State, the eligible survivors will receive over $100,000.
Second, spouses of the deportees who were not nationals of the mentioned countries will be compensated.
Third, children of survivors who died after World War II could claim the compensation in their names, but only if they can prove that the deportee parent was not from these countries.
The amount of money to children and spouses will depend on the year the survivor died.
According to the estimates, 76,000 Jews were deported from France by the SNCF during the country’s occupation.
The SNCF is not a part of the recent agreement, but it has committed to make a voluntary contribution of $4 million in coming years to museums, monuments and education programs focusing on the Holocaust in several countries, according to The Washington Post.
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WASHINGTON – France has signed an agreement with the United States under which it will compensate Nazi Holocaust survivors who are Americans or others and were deported from France from a fund totaling $60 million.The agreement was signed on Monday and will come into effect following approval by the French parliament, according to the U.S. Department of State which defined the terms of the deal last week.
According to the agreement, $60 million will be used by the U.S. to create a fund to compensate those Holocaust survivors, their spouses and children who claim it and fulfill the requirements.
The agreement aims to pay those people who were deported from France to Nazi concentration camps through the French rail company SNCF during the country’s occupation by the Germans between 1940 and 1944.
In order to gain the benefits of the deal, the person should not have had access to any compensation or pension programs which France has been providing since 1946.
The U.S. will be the only country to distribute the funds to those who fulfill three requirements.
First, Holocaust deportees will be compensated, provided that they are not French, Belgian, Polish, British or from former Czechoslovakia as those countries already have similar accords with France.
According to the U.S. Department of State, the eligible survivors will receive over $100,000.
Second, spouses of the deportees who were not nationals of the mentioned countries will be compensated.
Third, children of survivors who died after World War II could claim the compensation in their names, but only if they can prove that the deportee parent was not from these countries.
The amount of money to children and spouses will depend on the year the survivor died.
According to the estimates, 76,000 Jews were deported from France by the SNCF during the country’s occupation.
The SNCF is not a part of the recent agreement, but it has committed to make a voluntary contribution of $4 million in coming years to museums, monuments and education programs focusing on the Holocaust in several countries, according to The Washington Post.
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