Israel's shame as Holocaust victims die in poverty
Published: 27 January, 2008, 07:52
About 80,000 Holocaust survivors emigrated to Israel after WW2. Instead of finding ease and opportunity, many discovered only loneliness and grinding poverty. They accuse Israel of failing to give them the compensation paid by Germany. They say millions o
In 1952 Germany and Israel signed an agreement. $US 800 million poured into the young Jewish state.
Pressure from the survivors finally forced the government to give some of this compensation to Holocaust victims.
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