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Serving Our Survivors (SOS), a program of Jewish Family Service of Colorado (JFS), has announced that the deadline to apply for the one-time Ghetto Fund payment of €2,000 from the German government is December 31, 2011. This payment is limited to Holocaust survivors who worked in Nazi-controlled ghettos in World War II. Certain eligibility requirements must be met.

The “Ghetto Fund” is administered by Germany’s BADV federal office. The basic prerequisites for the payment are that the survivor (1) was forced to live in a ghetto in an area that was occupied by Germany or allied to it and (2) performed voluntary work.

Ghetto Payments Amendment of 2011
Recent changes to German law now allow eligible Jewish survivors of ghettos who worked “without force” and for some form of remuneration to receive both German Social Security payments and a one-time payment of €2,000. Previously, eligible survivors were not entitled to receive both.

The fund’s one-time payment of €2,000 was created to acknowledge ghetto survivors who had been rejected for German Social Security payments and it came as a response to intense international pressure spearheaded by the Claims Conference.

For information on criteria and how to apply: http://www.claimscon.org/index.asp?url=badv

PLEASE NOTE: THESE ARE NOT CLAIMS CONFERENCE PROGRAMS. CLAIMANTS MUST APPLY TO THE RELEVANT GERMAN GOVERNMENT OFFICES LISTED ON OUR WEBSITE.

For more information, please contact Mirella Schreiber, JFS SOS coordinator, at (303) 597.5000 or mschreiber@jewishfamilyservice.org.

Download the application and instructions.