An announcement that the West Berlin Senate has voted to pay to the Jewish community here 1,000,000 Deutschemarks (about $250,000) for cultural objects seized from the Jewish community during the Nazi regime was made here last night by Senator Joachim Lipshitz.
Senator Lipshitz made the announcement at a meeting in the Jewish Community Center here, commemorating the martyrdom of the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto who rebelled against the Nazis in 1943. In his address, Sen. Lipshitz also paid high tribute to 56 non-Jewish citizens of Berlin who helped Jews in this city during the Nazi regime.
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