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Lawyering the Holocaust
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Washington Jewish Week
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June 19, 2008
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- Greenberg, Richard
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Free legal-aid program assists aging survivors
The opportunity to receive token - but not inconsequential - compensation for their suffering brought six Holocaust survivors to the Jewish Social Service Agency in Rockville last Friday.
They are among perhaps dozens of Washington-area Jews now in their 70s, 80s and 90s who hope to qualify for a modest reparations payment under a new program unveiled by the German government. It will award 2,000 Euros each (roughly $3,000) to Jews who can demonstrate that they performed so-called "voluntary" work in a Nazi-controlled ghetto.
There are now roughly 60,000 potentially eligible survivors worldwide, including 25,000 in the United States, according ...