{"id":170215,"date":"2018-07-10T05:55:40","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T09:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=170215"},"modified":"2018-07-10T05:55:40","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T09:55:40","slug":"germany-agrees-to-88-million-more-for-holocaust-survivors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/07\/10\/germany-agrees-to-88-million-more-for-holocaust-survivors\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany agrees to $88 million more for Holocaust survivors"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_170217\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-170217\" style=\"width: 2200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/hesed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-170217\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/hesed.jpg\" alt=\"The Claims Conference carries out continuous negotiations to make more people eligible for compensation. Since 1952, Germany has paid more than $70 billion. (Photo: www.claimscon.org)\" width=\"2200\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/hesed.jpg 2200w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/hesed-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/hesed-768x419.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/hesed-1024x559.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2200px) 100vw, 2200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-170217\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Claims Conference carries out continuous negotiations to make more people eligible for compensation. Since 1952, Germany has paid more than $70 billion. (Photo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.claimscon.org\/what-we-do\/compensation\/\">www.claimscon.org<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>BERLIN \u2013 The organization that handles claims on behalf of Jews who suffered under the Nazis says Germany has agreed to pay another 75 million euros ($88 million) to fund social welfare services for Holocaust survivors.<\/p>\n<p>The New York-based Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany said Tuesday that brings total funding next year to 480 million euros to help survivors as they grow older and more frail.<\/p>\n<p>Claims Conference negotiator Greg Schneider says \u201cthese elderly heroes deserve the recognition that increased payments and much-needed services will provide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Germany also agreed to increase pensions paid to 55,000 Holocaust survivors in Central and Eastern Europe, and expand eligibility for child survivors.<\/p>\n<p>The Claims Conference carries out continuous negotiations to make more people eligible for compensation. Since 1952, Germany has paid more than $70 billion.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN \u2013 The organization that handles claims on behalf of Jews who suffered under the Nazis says Germany has agreed &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":170217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[14068,3045,2084,10096,5920],"class_list":["post-170215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","tag-berlin","tag-holocaust","tag-jews","tag-nazi","tag-survivors","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}