Christian In Israel

A 'heart' for Holocaust survivors

Reparations do not spare many Holocaust survivors living in Israel from destitution.

The Holocaust Era Asset Restitution Taskforce.
Photo by: Project HEART
With tens of thousands of elderly Holocaust survivors in Israel struggling to make ends meet, efforts to care for their needs have revived memories of one of the most painful and polarizing debates in the history of the modern State of Israel – the controversy in 1951–1952 over German reparations for the Holocaust .

The Reparations Agreement between Israel and West Germany proposed that West Germany pay over 3 billion Deutschmarks to the state of Israel in order to resettle over 500,000 Holocaust survivors in Israel as compensation for the Nazi’s use of Jews as slave laborers and their pillaging of Jewish property during World War II.

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