Washington, DC – More than $300 million in previously unpaid insurance claims were awarded to 48,000 Holocaust survivors for harm they suffered during World War II, an international commission said.
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The International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims concluded its claims and appeals process after a worldwide outreach campaign began in 1998 to ensure that insurance companies fulfilled their obligations.
Its review was able to match those survivors submitting claims with more than 70 European insurance companies and businesses.
"I fully recognize that no amount of compensation can redress the suffering inflicted during the Holocaust," said Lawrence Eagleburger, who chaired the commission. Still, the panel, he said, "has achieved its goal of bringing a small measure of justice to those who have been denied it for so long."
The group was charged with expeditiously addressing, at no cost to claimants, unpaid insurance policies issued to Holocaust victims. [AP]
can i put in a claim as an heir to my parents compensation?they both died a few yrs ago and only my father received weidergutmachung
Basically it comes down to $6250 per person, (300 mil ÷ 48,000) not even a years rent, for being imprisoned in a concentration camp for up to 5 years and seeing your family murdered before your eyes. The lawyers, of course got millions, but it was never the money, it was the principle… right?
And how exactly will these funds be allocated? By having Senior parties and social services made available, like they have now? In other words, let the agencies figure out what the needs are and then address them; rather than giving these dying people some cold hard cash. And lets not forget those legal fees.