Hundreds of Hungarian Jews have refused to accept compensation being offered by the government, according to the leader of the Jewish community there. Speaking on Hungarian television, Peter Feldmayer charged that the payments are minuscule and discriminatory. The government agreed last year to pay survivors some $140 for each parent killed during the Holocaust and $70 for each sibling. The government previously decided to pay $4,500 to the heirs of those killed during the Communist era.
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