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Thousands of Holocaust survivors and family members in the United States and elsewhere will be entitled to compensation from a $60 million French-U.S. fund announced Friday. reparations to those deported by France's state rail company SNCF during the Nazi occupation.
France's government has already paid more than $6 billion in reparations, but only to French citizens and certain deportees. The new accord is to help compensate Americans, Israelis and some others who were not eligible for other French reparations programs.
Patrizianna Sparacino-Thiellay, a French ambassador for human rights who worked closely with Eizenstat on the accord, said "hundreds" of people in the U.S. are eligible under the new fund as direct survivors or spouses, and several thousand could be eligible as heirs.
The money should break down to about $100,000 each for survivors and tens of thousands of dollars for spouses, said Eizenstat.
France Agrees to Compensate Holocaust Deportees - ABC News
France's government has already paid more than $6 billion in reparations, but only to French citizens and certain deportees. The new accord is to help compensate Americans, Israelis and some others who were not eligible for other French reparations programs.
Patrizianna Sparacino-Thiellay, a French ambassador for human rights who worked closely with Eizenstat on the accord, said "hundreds" of people in the U.S. are eligible under the new fund as direct survivors or spouses, and several thousand could be eligible as heirs.
The money should break down to about $100,000 each for survivors and tens of thousands of dollars for spouses, said Eizenstat.
France Agrees to Compensate Holocaust Deportees - ABC News