The German Federal Government has made pension payments totaling in excess of $22, 850, 000 to former employees of the Jewish community organizations in Germany, it was disclosed today. Under the restitution agreements, the German Government undertook to pension former officials and employees of the Jewish communities.
Dr. Ernst Katzenstein, head of the German office of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, made the announcement in connection with the final meeting of the Conference’s Claims Advisory Board. The board was set up seven years ago to screen the pension claims of former Jewish officials. As a result of its efforts, some 2,800 pension claims, mainly of rabbis, cantors, librarians and social workers, were settled.
(Dr. Heinrich von Brentano, Foreign Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany, last week signed a treaty with the Government of The Netherlands, granting the Dutch Government 125, 000, 000 Deutschemarks (about $31, 000, 000) for compensation of Dutch victims of Nazism. The treaty was the result of several years of negotiations between Holland and West Germany.)
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