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About 245,000 Holocaust survivors are alive around the world

2024-01-23 14:05:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

About 245,000 Holocaust survivors are alive around the world

Nearly 80 years after the end of the Second World War, there are about 245,000 Holocaust survivors living in 90 countries around the world, a study showed on Tuesday.

According to the Claims Conference, an organization that collects data on Holocaust survivors, 119,300 of them live in Israel, 38,400 in the United States, 21,900 in France and 14,200 in Germany.

"Almost all of those who survived were children at the time of Nazi persecution, survived the camps, ghettos, battles and lived in secret," said the report, where it was emphasized that children had the least opportunities to survival.

With an average age of 86 years, they are "in a period of life when they need care", said Gideon Taylor, president of the Claims Conference organization, adding that "the attention to this part of the population must be redoubled".

Founded in 1952, the Claims Conference has been the leading organization to assess claims against Holocaust survivors, and was a signatory to the Luxembourg Agreement, under which the former West Germany accepted responsibility for Nazi atrocities and paid reparations. .

The signing of the agreement by West Germany was seen as the first major step after World War II, during which 6 million Jews were killed.

Since then, Germany has paid more than 90 billion dollars to the Jews./ REL





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