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Ghetto Workers Eligible Retroactively for Reparations

by Yated Ne'eman Staff

The Federal Social Court in Germany has issued a ruling that all World War II ghetto workers are eligible for reparations retroactively from July 1997, even if their claim was filed after 2009, including claims filed now. These claims can total as much as NIS 200,000 ($50,000) and more.

The payments are given by the German Social Security Administration, which has recognized, after a many-year battle, that Holocaust survivors who were ghetto workers are eligible for monthly rent and retroactive payment. Until June 2009, the Social Security offices and German courts refused to approve claims by ghetto workers, saying the labor was forced and the remuneration received was not monetary. In June, following three rulings by the Federal Social Court (the Bundessozialgericht) in Kassel, the approach adopted by the German Social Security Administration and by the lower courts shifted.

Today there is a consensus that all claimants who can prove they worked in the ghettos and received remuneration of any kind, regardless of age, do not have to prove they worked "willingly" and in exchange for "money or a monetary equivalent."

 

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