German court limits payments to WWII ‘ghetto’ victims

Jerusalem Post Wednesday 8th February, 2012

Recipients of Germany's "ghetto pensions" will not receive retroactive payments from 1997, a German court decided on Tuesday.The German Social Court ruled that those forcibly held in ghettos during World War II could not receive more than four years of retroactive pay, the maximum in the country's social security guidelines.Jewish groups hoped ...

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