Payments totaling $1.05 million are scheduled to be made this week to Russian Holocaust survivors. A total of 1,745 Jewish survivors and 890 non-Jewish survivors will each receive $400 from a $180 million fund that was established in 1997 by Switzerland’s three largest banks to aid needy survivors worldwide.
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