Some 7,500 Holocaust survivors will receive additional compensation from Germany as a result of a new agreement. The agreement, which will affect, among others, survivors who spent more than six months in concentration camps and forced labor camps in Austria, Hungary and Ukraine, will cost Germany an estimated $40 million per year.
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