05.07.2011                      03.Tammus, 5771

Shoah-Überlebende:

Holocaust survivors sue state over ‘unpaid reparations’

‘Tehran children’ lawsuit could set a precedent for similar class actions.

A group of Holocaust survivors has brought a lawsuit against the State of Israel for what they say is their rightful share of reparations monies paid to Israel by the former West Germany under the 1953 Reparations Agreement between the two countries.
The 270 men and women, most of them in their 80s, are part of a group of Holocaust survivors known as the “Tehran children,” Jewish orphans who fled Germanoccupied Poland for the USSR in 1939. In 1941, after a period of incarceration in the Siberian Gulag, the children were allowed to travel with the newly formed Polish Anders Army to Tehran. The children's parents had been murdered by the Nazis in Poland or had died in Siberia….