German Holocaust reparations increase again this year, but plateau expected as survivors perish
The rising tally is driven by health care costs, not direct payments to survivors
The rising tally is driven by health care costs, not direct payments to survivors
The Lithuania program is open to applications only until Dec. 31
'Jewish teachings on accountability and repair and are heeding the voices of people of African descent,' said its president
The best time to talk about reparations was right after slavery’s end. The second-best time is now
A German official has apologized to the daughter of a Holocaust survivor for demanding she return 72.55 euros that the government had mistakenly paid out to her deceased mother after she died in January. And Germany will return the money — about $80 — to the daughter, who had written a check for the amount…
The reparations checks Amira Gezow received every three months from the German government mattered to her. She had worked to get them and had helped other survivors secure theirs. For Gezow, a German-born woman who lost both her parents in the Holocaust, the checks were, monetarily, a pittance: 72.55 euros per month, or about 240…
(JTA) — On his path to the article that would get many Americans to consider reparations for Black people for the first time, Ta-Nehisi Coates paused to dwell on the role of Jews in Chicago’s housing inequality. Coates had just read “Family Properties,” a book by Beryl Satter about how government policy served to impoverish…
When I visited Berlin a number of years ago, I was surprised by the number of plaques embedded in the city’s streets that contain the name of Jews sent to their death by the Nazi regime. I was equally impressed by the myriad neighborhood memorials that many visitors might easily miss: a wall at a…
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