The first of more than 13,000 Russian victims of Nazism eligible for compensation from Germany received payouts Tuesday. Among the beneficiaries of the $8 million German fund are an undisclosed number of Jews who will receive a one-time compensation ranging from $9,444 for former ghetto and concentration camp inmates to $1,888 for those who spent the Nazi occupation in hiding.
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