The Italian Senate today ratified the Italian-German agreement of June 1961, according to which the Bonn Government will pay $10, 000, 000 for the indemnification of Italian victims of Nazism, many of them Jews, who had been deported to Germany during the Second World War.
The Italian Government now has to enact regulations for the distribution of the funds among the victims and their heirs within six months. During the indemnification procedure, the Government will maintain contact with a special Parliamentary Commission and probably with the various organizations representing the deportees, including the Union of Italian Jewish Communities.
During the debate on the measure, Senator Caleffi said that while “the deportees and the families of those who died during the mass persecutions trust that their needs will find adequate relief,” they nevertheless “hope at the same time that nobody will dare boast that the price for so much suffering and pain had been paid.”
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