The U.S. State Department released $4 million to provide food, clothing and medical treatment to needy Holocaust survivors in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. The Claims Conference will administer the aid, the first to be disbursed from the Nazi Persecutee Relief Fund, which was established last year during an international conference on Holocaust assets.
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