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Germans Cough Up $130 Million
Euros
In 2007 the Germans coughed up $130
million for Jews in the ghettos.
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Who Qualifies?
The new payment program is not for slave labor in concentration
camps, but for work performed in the Jewish Ghettos of
Nazi-controlled Europe. There were hundreds of ghettos, many
closed-off by barbed-wire fences and walls. Jews would sweep the
streets, haul lumber, sew uniforms. In exchange for the bare
necessities of clothing or food. Once Hitler’s “Final Solution”
began, the ghettos were destroyed and occupants deported to
forced-labor and extermination camps.
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20,000 US Jews Are Qualified
80-year old Albert Davis walks into a small room at the Jewish
Family Services office in West Hartford. He’s one of 20,000
Holocaust survivors who’ve come to apply for the German Ghetto Work
Payment Program.
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Bush Will Support Israel
"We dig ditches. They rounded us up. They took us out about five,
six miles in order for to dig ditches there. After a year, a year
and a half, they took us and they put us in a big synagogue before
they send us over to Auschwitz."
After the war Mr. Davis made his way to Hartford, where he worked
for 35 years as a meat cutter in the local Jewish deli.
"They took all my youth, all my youth when I was young. They took it
away from me. Some people have here there, what you call it?
Teenagers. I never had youth, teenager. I never had adult. I never
grew up."
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Survivor Sonia Mazny Cries When
She Remembers
It took many survivors years to talk about their experiences. And
even now, filling out the reparation forms is difficult for 86-year
old Sonia Mazny. She inspected German military uniforms in the
Bialystock Ghetto in Poland.
"We tried to block everything. To do the papers and things like that,
everything comes back to us. Very emotional."
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Eric Goldstein Remembers
Eric was forced to take out the family garbage.
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Survivors Have Photographs
These survivors claim they not only were slave laborers in the
ghettos, but they also saw were a breath away from being feed to the
ovens.
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