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Germany to Compensate 25,000 Algerian Jewish Holocaust Survivors
(Times of Israel) Stuart Winer - Some 25,000 Jews who lived in Algeria between July 1940 and November 1942 when it was under the control of Nazi Germany and the Vichy government in France, and who suffered at the hands of the Nazis, will be eligible for a one-time payment of $3,183, the Conference on Material Claims Against Germany, an international Jewish group that distributes Holocaust compensation funds on behalf of the German government, announced Monday. "The Vichy government subjected these people to restrictions on education, political life, participation in civil society and employment, abolishing French citizenship and singling them out only because they were Jews," said Greg Schneider, executive vice president of the Claims Conference. While most of the Algerian survivors live in France, 3,900 live in Israel.