A Berlin court rejected a multimillion-dollar lawsuit filed against Germany by Slovakia’s Central Union of Jewish Religious Communities. The Jewish group was seeking to reclaim money the wartime Slovak government paid Nazi Germany to deport more than 57,000 Jews to concentration camps. According to the Czech News Agency, the court did not think the Central Union had a legitimate right to seek compensation.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
