As far as Germany is concerned, Dutch Jews deserve no compensation for
living in hiding during the Nazi occupation. Reparations negotiators told
Haaretz last week they plan to make the issue the focus of the next round of talks with Germany on whether survivors from Holland should be compensated. Advertisement
Community leaders are also working to lift a stipulation stating that former residents of the Amsterdam Ghetto are not to be compensated for having to live there, because the ghetto is defined in Germany as "an open ghetto" whose inhabitants could leave.
Orly Joseph, a spokeswoman for the Conference on Jewish Material Claims
against Germany, said her organization will bring up the Dutch Jews' case in the annual negotiations with Germany.
The issue became relevant last month after community leaders succeeded in
lifting an exclusion barring Dutch Jews from German reparations. In November, Dutch Jewry launched a campaign concerning a one-time 1,400-euro grant that most Dutch survivors received in the 1960s, which later excluded 2,000 people from receiving a monthly stipend of 270 euros.
Any recipient of the grant, known by the Dutch acronym CADSU II, became
ineligible for compensation under the Conference's Article 2 fund for Western Jews. After Article 2 was expanded in June, Berlin allocated additional funds for Dutch survivors and upped the Article 2 stipend from 270 euros to 291 euros. continues here
living in hiding during the Nazi occupation. Reparations negotiators told
Haaretz last week they plan to make the issue the focus of the next round of talks with Germany on whether survivors from Holland should be compensated. Advertisement
Community leaders are also working to lift a stipulation stating that former residents of the Amsterdam Ghetto are not to be compensated for having to live there, because the ghetto is defined in Germany as "an open ghetto" whose inhabitants could leave.
Orly Joseph, a spokeswoman for the Conference on Jewish Material Claims
against Germany, said her organization will bring up the Dutch Jews' case in the annual negotiations with Germany.
The issue became relevant last month after community leaders succeeded in
lifting an exclusion barring Dutch Jews from German reparations. In November, Dutch Jewry launched a campaign concerning a one-time 1,400-euro grant that most Dutch survivors received in the 1960s, which later excluded 2,000 people from receiving a monthly stipend of 270 euros.
Any recipient of the grant, known by the Dutch acronym CADSU II, became
ineligible for compensation under the Conference's Article 2 fund for Western Jews. After Article 2 was expanded in June, Berlin allocated additional funds for Dutch survivors and upped the Article 2 stipend from 270 euros to 291 euros. continues here
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