A Swiss fund for needy Holocaust victims made its first payments to Gypsy survivors of the Nazi concentration camps. Three Gypsies, aged 58 to 78, received more than $1,350 each at a ceremony in Germany. About 10 percent of the $190 million Holocaust Memorial Fund — which was established last year by Switzerland’s three largest banks amid allegations that Swiss banks hoarded the wealth of Holocaust victims — was set aside to help non-Jewish victims of the war, such as Catholics, Gypsies and homosexuals.
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