BERLIN — Germany has agreed to one-time payments for survivors, primarily Jews, who were evacuated from Nazi Germany as children, many of whom never saw their parents again, the organization that negotiates compensation with the German government said Monday. Following the Nazis’ anti-Jewish pogrom in November 1938 known as Kristallnacht or the Night of Broken Glass, the British government agreed to allow an unspecified number of Jewish children as refugees from Nazi Germany or territories it had annexed. Jewish groups inside Nazi Germany planned the transports, and the first arrived in Harwich on December 2, 1938, according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. In all, about 10,000 children from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland were taken to Britain, about 7,500 of whom were Jewish, according to the museum. ADVERTISEMENTThe Claims Conference carries out continuous negotiations with Germany to expand the number of people eligible for compensation.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer December 17, 2018 10:18 UTC